Fall Running Thread

[emily_in_nc]

Sounds good RnR!

We had a "cold" (make that cool and blustery, for here) front come through, and yesterday it had just stopped raining when I got out for my morning run -- 5K miles at a gentle pace. It sure was easier with clouds and cooler temps! Tomorrow looks like more of the same, though we may see some sun; we'll see. I plan to get out for my own personal "turkey trot" before feasting later in the day.

[rocknrollgirl]

Oh what I would not do for a "cool front". It is so ridiculously warm here right now. Probably 25 degrees above normal. It is just not right. Blech. Anyway. We got in 8.5 on the trails today. My legs were tired from mt biking on Thursday so the entire 1:35 mins was an exercise in separating mind and body. I was pretty shot by the end.

About an hour after we were home, showed and fed, we both realized that if we did not get up and move, the couch would suck us in. So we went out and ran errands for a few hours. I am sure my legs will be tired tomorrow.

[emily_in_nc]

Oh what I would not do for a "cool front". It is so ridiculously warm here right now. Probably 25 degrees above normal. It is just not right. Blech.

Somehow I doubt you'd be very impressed by our cool front. The main thing it did for us is bring the dewpoint down from 79-80F to 69-70F. The temps are somewhat lower too, but still 70 to low 80s, but the lower humidity makes it feel so much better. Hope your temps will cool down soon!

I did 3.5 miles running (plus more walking) on Thanksgiving and 2.25 miles running (a little faster) plus more walking today. I am pressed for time on Saturday mornings so have to keep it short, so sped it up a bit and didn't seem to have any issues with my Achilles. Happy about that. I am definitely enjoying being back to the running 3x a week, but next week we're traveling, so I'll only get in one run (Tuesday).

Congrats on your 8.5, RnR; that's great!

[rocknrollgirl]

Thanks Emily, and good job to you. It sounds like it is coming along. Running takes patience. Slow and steady you go.

I was going to do a 30 min recovery run this morning, but it is raining and since I don't "have to" why get wet? So I think I will eat, grade some papers and go to yoga in a few hours.

[rocknrollgirl]

I got in three solid runs this week. Monday and Thursday 5 each on the rail trail and yesterday we did an hour trail run, but hard. We had just done 3 weekends of building on the long trail run, so we decided a step down week was probably in order. My foot that I had surgery on last year is barking at me. I feel like it is fighting the orthotic in the shoe. I have an appt with the doc that did the surgery on Wed. It would make sense, the device was made pre-surgery to help correct the problem I had surgery for. It is not the same foot.

[rocknrollgirl]

I went to the foot surgeon yesterday. I always bring all of my current running shoes with me, so I had a 3 pair of shoes dragging along. I called the collection, the old ones, the wrong ones and my trail runners. he is a HUGE doc for all of the big runners in the area. Olympic athletes, professional athletes, the whole deal. So everyone is always dragging theirs shoes with them.

I pulled them all out, he takes one look at my current shoes and says....What the heck you doing in those? That is WAY too much shoes for you. No wonder your orthotics hurt.

So the good news is my foot is fine. The bad news is I need to ditch my current shoes and go back to my Brooks Ghosts. Lucky for me I found a pair on sale last night. He is also making me another pair of orthotics, so bad news that I had to shell out big bucks for those. He is out of network so I have to pay up front and then fight like crazy to get money back.

Even my surgery, I had to pay a huge chunk up front, and then BCBS deemed it medically unnecessary and we are still fighting to get money back.

But if that is the worst of it, fine. Merry Christmas to me, new orthotics. And I did not resign up for yoga, so that balances out.

[yellow]

RnR, I hate it when a pair of shoes just doesn't work out. I usually turn them into garden shoes. I have many pairs of garden shoes

I have not run a step since the 12 hour in mid-October. I have a wee problem that I decided I would just let mellow by taking a break from running. I just started doing some longer (30-minute) walks this week and once I can do these without pain then I will start to run/walk again. It's ski season so once we have a consistent base for skating, I suspect that will take up the bulk of my exercise time. I also got some new backcountry ski gear this year (Merry Christmas to me!) and hope to try out SkiMo. Lots to keep me occupied.

I did sign up for one race next year (in June) but that might be it. I am considering some big life changes and might not have the time and energy to train like normal. Still working through it all.