Zippity YAY! Dec 3 - Dec 9

[yellow]

Whoopeee! A new week! Tell us about it!!!!

(sorry, still on the post 50k high! )

[ummbnb]

Trying to get back up to speed, pun only partially intended, after a bad cold. Did my usual 4 mile route tonight but ended up speed walking a good portion of it again. Just couldn't run more than a couple blocks at a time.

Its interesting though....I find that anytime I speed walk as opposed to run I can really feel it in my legs and butt when I get home. Like my muscles are working harder walking than they are running. My stride is definitely longer when I walk - probably contributes. Anyone else experience this?

[SadieKate]

Congratulations, Shirley!

[maillotpois]

(sorry, still on the post 50k high! )

50k???

(Bowing down in awe and humility.)

[crazycanuck]

Yellow..you ran 50km? What a woman!

Amazing..Have you thought about doing the 90kmm Comrade Run in South Africa?

c

[maillotpois]

Let me just say that I have met Yellow, and I always had this sense about her - like there was something hidden. Perhaps even bionic. You know? Not in a 1970's Jamie Sommers sort of way but in the 2000's Jamie Sommers reinvention, coupled with some Uma Thurman and shrunk down real good.



Seriously, kudos. Man that's WAY too far to run. Really.

[maillotpois]

I really just can't get beyond this.

Didn't anyone ever tell you that running sux???

Okay. I am done.









For now.

[jobob]

Geeeeeeze.

[yellow]

OK, since some of you bike people actually seem interested in this whole 50k running affair, I'll write up a little adventure story report.

Let me just say this: after the Headwind Double last year, I wasn't sure I wanted to repeat the experience. After the run on Saturday I was already thinking about when I could do another 50k. Sick, I know.

Edited: The mostly full report is now over in Adventure Stories: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=20336

[jobob]

Harrumpf !! I just figured out that you were in my neck of the woods for this run, with nary a hidey-ho.

(My guess is you wanted to keep a low profile on account of that rock-hard futon I stuck you on the last time you were out here )

[maillotpois]

That's just wrong. Wrong!

I have done what, 9 doubles and a bunch of extra rides over 200 miles and NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING ever hurt as bad as even one of my marathons. Even the stupid 600k - I could WALK the next day. After any of my 4 marathons (no, I am not a fast learner) I was in PAIN - PAIN!!!. And I cannot even imagine a 50k. There is something WRONG with you.

Wrong.

(Well done.)

[froglegs]

A big dog interrupted what was supposed to be a 5k run. After having to walk for 5 minutes so as not to encourage the dog to chase me (it was already growling after I yelled at it) I took a shortcut for home, cutting the run short to 2 miles. I wish people would control their dogs.

[Grog]

Now I'm inspired by Yellow's adventures!

Maybe I should go run with you in Utah sometime? Please?

Had a gentle 6 km this morning. WAAAAY overdressed for the weather (we had a few days of freezing temps and now that it's 6C I'm confused) but didn't run too fast because one of my running partners was not feeling too well, so it turned out okay. I think that if I ran in the summer I'd have to go naked, I don't understand how some of you guys do it!

Keep running!

[Deborajen]

Its interesting though....I find that anytime I speed walk as opposed to run I can really feel it in my legs and butt when I get home. Like my muscles are working harder walking than they are running. My stride is definitely longer when I walk - probably contributes. Anyone else experience this?

Oh, speed walking definitely uses different muscles - I'm always sore after a hard walk whereas I'm used to running.-- I've never really paid attention, but I wouldn't be surprised if my stride is longer with harder walking than with running - that is, unless i'm sprinting which I seldom do.

I did a 2-mile easy run yesterday morning before work. Finished at the grocery store and picked up a few things there, walked 1/2 mile back home. It was cold, but it felt good - watched the sun come up.-- People who don't run or walk don't know what they're missing.

Deb

[Grog]

Oh, speed walking definitely uses different muscles - I'm always sore after a hard walk whereas I'm used to running.-- I've never really paid attention, but I wouldn't be surprised if my stride is longer with harder walking than with running - that is, unless i'm sprinting which I seldom do.

Totally true. I walk quite a bit (3 km a day or more) and last weekend I walked probably about twice that, in the snow, and my glutes were quite sore the next day.

That's also why just walking for one minute makes such a big difference while running: it changes the load on your muscles and gives the running muscles a chance to rest... before starting to run again, of course. (If you walk for too long, your running muscles just cool down and don't want to run anymore, though!)