Sizzling August Runs

[Catrin]

I saw a little snake crossing the trail today, does that count?

[rocknrollgirl]

Snakes..YIKES...that counts....

So a non running story. We are driving home from Maine to NJ today. It is traditionally a hellish ride becuse of the traffic. Today is no different. About 7 hours in we are sitting in bumper to bumper traffic trying to cross the Tappen Zee bridge, and I went into the cooler for a peach, but the first thing I encountered was the rest of the strawberry rubarb pie from last night's dinner.
I looked at the traffic, looked at my hubs, pulled out a fork and the two of us polished it off with no guilt at all. Take that Tappen Zee bridge.

[yellow]

I looked at the traffic, looked at my hubs, pulled out a fork and the two of us polished it off with no guilt at all. Take that Tappen Zee bridge.

I would soooo have done that. Guilt? What guilt? I am impressed that you had a fork nearby!

[rocknrollgirl]

Tempo Tuesday

Just got in from a tempo session with my hubby. It is nice and cool out this morning, so it was not too bad in that department. I did not see any critters because we were right here on my street, but we did see some very weird piles of scat. Fox or maybe coyote...not sure. If we were further north, I would say bear. Odd plies of poo.... ( so says the biologist)

And Yellow...I always have a fork nearby

[skhill]

Tempo Wednesday doesn't have as much of a ring to it... It was not cool here this morning, a very humid 75F. Yuck. Roughly 4 miles at tempo, then some intervals on the track, and a slow jog on home. I was drenched in sweat, but I've done my speed work for this week.

[rocknrollgirl]

Yesterday was Long Trail Run Thursday. It was a balmy 80 degrees with 90% humidity. Nice crisp running weather My goal was to work on pacing ad nutrition. I knew the weather would be a factor so I went in with the plan to walk the bigger hills right from the start. In the end, that turned out to be a good plan. We ran 11 miles, hilly in 2:10. Well, I should not say we, my husband was done 20 mins ahead of me and did not walk a thing.

I think I did pretty well fueling. I probably could have used a gel at about 1:45, but I could not get one past my lips. I sure hope on race day that we have less humid weather.

[Crankin]

That sounds tough. Good luck with the race.
This morning, my DH challenged me to "run around the circle" as a little exercise to start the day. This means run one mile around the loop of my street, which is alternatively up a 13% grade (my driveway), down a 10% grade, up a couple 5-6% grades, and down an 8%, back to the driveway.
It was 5:45 AM, drizzly (thankfully), but I did it. My hips are just now recovering.