June Running

[solobiker]

In answer to your question Jess...Yes.

No running for me lately...long work days...10.5 yesterday and 11 today. Tomorrow probably the same...actually the rest of the week is looking the same and I get the pleasure of working on Saturday. Oh well. I guess it is better then not having a job.

[jessmarimba]

In answer to your question Jess...Yes.

No running for me lately...long work days...10.5 yesterday and 11 today. Tomorrow probably the same...actually the rest of the week is looking the same and I get the pleasure of working on Saturday. Oh well. I guess it is better then not having a job.

I hear ya there. I'm doing the long-run ONLY running program, or so it seems.

Got up at 3 today to fly to and from Portland and will be lucky to be in bed by 2 am. This, after I stayed up until midnight working on a report that was delayed through no fault of my own. I'm losing it. I think my brain is melting.

[solobiker]

Wow Jess..that is crazy. I will try to take a nice long nap for you. You are a far better person than I am..I can get up very early without any trouble but ask me to stay up late...then you will have to deal with one cranky lady unfocused lady. Hang in there!!

[jessmarimba]

Ran 10 in Bozeman this morning. Bozeman Running Company is awesome!

It was a bunch of false flats and harder than I expected. Though I didn't drink enough yesterday after flyin out here. I should've run 13 but I'll hike this afternoon and make up the difference.

I don't want to leave Montana, so pretty up here!

[skhill]

The summer heat has returned, alas! 70F and humid at dawn... Still, got in 7 miles. Took advantage of the university's summer break to run through a nearly-deserted campus, that was nice. On my way home, I stopped by a playground to hit the water-fountain, and thought I'd try to do a pull-up on the jungle gym. Managed 3 of them!!!

[katluvr]

Home after my work trip to Minneapolis an I had to go right to work for the weekend. I came back with a "travel" cold. Now having my worst day and darn it I'm off today and had a run planned! Having that critical discussion in my head of I should rest versus "it's just a cold--go run". I am in the critical month(s) before my target event. Trying to listen to my body and make some training plan adjustments. Darn cold!

[SadieKate]

I ran a trail "half" on Saturday which turned out to be 14.1 miles and 2,700' of climbing in freakin' hot and humid conditions. Fortunately, yellow continues in her willingness to destroy her ultrasignup ranking to come out to the PNW and drink beer with me.

Retiring from running for the 3rd time. If Brett Favre can do it, so can I.

And my new coach's magic downhill strength training program worked. Yaaaaaaaay.

[jessmarimba]

50 minutes on the trails today. Ran the only shaded one I could find, which apparently also has the only mosquitoes in the state. Uphills are getting easier but I still hate them. I also reeeeealy need to get hydrated and stay hydrated. I keep trying to drink too much on the move and then I get sloshy-gut. And I have a half marathon Sunday, with a high of 98

[limewave]

6.5 mile run yesterday. Feels strange to be running again . . . I'm going to start training for a half marathon that is in early September.

[skhill]

And I have a half marathon Sunday, with a high of 98

That sounds dreadful! Be careful out there!

Today's run was routine, 5 slow miles in the neighborhood. What wasn't routine was seeing a raccoon. I've been in this house for more than a decade, and it's the first raccoon I've seen within a mile. Yet one more kind of critter to mess with my veg. garden...

[solobiker]

Went for a short run yesterday..no run for me toady as it is 100 degrees. Ugh...Heading up to the mtns tomorrow for somme hiking and I hope to get away from the heat. 101 here tomorrow.

[jessmarimba]

Went for a short run yesterday..no run for me toady as it is 100 degrees. Ugh...Heading up to the mtns tomorrow for somme hiking and I hope to get away from the heat. 101 here tomorrow.

Don't remind me...I'm going for 6 in the morning, mostly to try out the shoes I just bought before I race in them Sunday. We're starting at 6:30 and it will still be nearly 80 when we're done. Enjoy your escape!

[jessmarimba]

Ok, just ran 4 today, then walked 2.5. Shoes will probably work. Going to be 102, so I'm hiding for the rest of the day. Might be time to finally break down and get a portable swamp cooler for my upstairs. No idea of the temperature up here (the only thermometer I have is a candy thermometer for baking, which starts 100F - but the line will get there soon) but downstairs is about 88 and feels cool.

I need to drink about a gallon of fluids and tomorrow is still going to be the slowest half marathon ever. I only hope it's faster than the one I ran last October when I was hypothermic for half of the race!

[skhill]

Don't want to rub it in, but it was an almost perfect morning for a run. Mid-60s, with low humidity and just a trace of a breeze. So it was 8 miles, going through a part of town where I rarely run. Too many hills! That's why there are so many cemeteries there; the land's not great for much else. When I was about a mile from getting home, it occured to me that I'd been past 4 cemeteries (3 active and one historic) so I took a little detour to go past yet one more. Could have added a sixth if I'd thought about it at the right time, would have been no more than another mile. Weird...

[Tri Girl]

I rarely post on this thread, but I'm always lurking.
I was supposed to do my first 50K today, but woke up with a horrible head cold thing going on, so went back to sleep. It was a local race at a trail nearby, so it was no big deal that I missed it (I hadn't signed up yet, was going to do it this morning). I may just try to run it in the morning at 4 am on my own if I feel better. If not, I'm waiting for the next "cool" day of 93 degrees next Saturday to try.
I need to move to Flagstaff or someplace cool in the summer. I really, really, really hate summer running around here! When it's already in the high 70's/low80's at dawn with humidity in the 60%'s and rising- it just makes for miserable long runs. I wind up running on the treadmill a LOT in the summer. I either need to start my long runs at 11 pm or 4 am to miss the heat of the day. LOL