Winter Running Thread

[Crankin]

Glad you are doing Boston again, Oak. Hope the weather stays cooler. Training and heat=bad things!

[rocknrollgirl]

We have to drive an hour to do anything except go the beach, which we do not do at all. The closest place to mt bike is 45 mins away, so we really do not think much of it. Our local park is nice to run in the winter, and even though it is hilly, it just does not give us enough to prep for a race in the mountains. Even small mountains! Flatlanders.

Oak, glad you are surviving your training so far. Sorry about the heat issues. I believe "blech" is the official term for that.

[rocknrollgirl]

Yesterday's run was some light speed work. I am trying to make sure we keep some on our schedule so that we do not fall into a pattern of trudging every run.
It actually felt really good to do. We kept the pick up's short enough to do the job but not cause too much soreness. Tomorrow we have our long trail run scheduled and they are calling for an inch of rain tonight. Could make for some smushy sections on the trails.

[rocknrollgirl]

Ouch, the word of the week is ouch.

Yesterday's trail run, just under 10 miles. My legs were tired from the week, and about an hour in they started to hate me. The last 2 miles was tough. I tried to just separate mind and body and keep putting one foot in front of the other. I was pretty pooped after and my hammies were very pooped.

Today we did an easy 90 min recovery ride on our mt bikes. I was reluctant to go, but it did help get some blood flowing to sore tight muscles. Now I am tired

[Catrin]

Ouch, the word of the week is ouch.

Yesterday's trail run, just under 10 miles. My legs were tired from the week, and about an hour in they started to hate me. The last 2 miles was tough. I tried to just separate mind and body and keep putting one foot in front of the other. I was pretty pooped after and my hammies were very pooped.

Today we did an easy 90 min recovery ride on our mt bikes. I was reluctant to go, but it did help get some blood flowing to sore tight muscles. Now I am tired

Sounds painful and fun all at the same time, a great combination! Are the hammies feeling better?

[OakLeaf]

I'll second the ouch

Ran that HM this morning. They had to delay the start for two hours because of a bad storm and tornado warnings - it had already blown through by the scheduled start time, but they couldn't do any of the setup until then. It was the same storm that resulted in the Naples HM being cancelled entirely because of all the power lines that were down. It was still pretty windy - steady 28 mph gusting to 39 - and the geography of the area meant that most of the race we were running either straight upwind or straight down. The upwind segments were brutal, but thankfully we had a tailwind for the final almost three miles. I took second in my age group, my first AG placing in anything longer than a 10K, so I'm happy, especially considering I wasn't at all fresh for this one.

It's early in my training plan to be running a HM, but considering my plan called for an easy 12 miles today, and because of that geography, I pretty much would've had to cover at least some of the same roads as the race, I wasn't going to skip this one. We'll see how sore I am for Wednesday's workout ....

[rocknrollgirl]

Sounds painful and fun all at the same time, a great combination! Are the hammies feeling better?

They are feeling better. Believe it or not, I took a hot bath. I am not a bath person normally, but we did a bathroom reno this summer and my hubs put in a cast iron clawfoot tub. And now I am becoming a bath person. It really helped my legs today.

I think the sore hammies are coming from weak glutes. So I am working on them.

Oak,
Great job. The conditions sound brutal. So pumped for your age group place! That is so cool!

[Crankin]

Hope the soreness gets better, rocknroll. Sometimes a bath really does help.
Oak, that sounds really brutal. Wind just sucks the life out of me for any sport! Congrats on your age group place.