Take It On the Run: Week of July 21

[jesvetmed]

Everyone taking the week off?
I ran Tuesday at our cabin -- hot and bad run -- posted elsewhere (involved my dog getting attacked by dogs, and me by a wasp), but made it through only 3 miles.

Hit the treadmill today -- 3 miles at 6 to 6.2 mph, and then walked to 50 minutes total at 4.5 mph.

Realized that I've been really slacking on my running since my tri 4 weeks ago. What a drop in cardio ability I've had! Got hit it harder again!

What's everyone else up to?

[OakLeaf]

Okay, okay, you guilted me into it

I woke up sore all over from my (not too long, not too hard but it FELT hard) ride yesterday. I don't know if it's the anxiety over my health, the jet lag, not having been on the bike for eight days, or what. Needed to do something today though, so I guess a run was it, after not running since Saturday.

So, an easy lope from home. It seemed like I had plenty of cardio reserve, but my legs just didn't want to turn over. I didn't push it, mostly because of my emotional state. 4.25 miles at a 10:51 pace

[kelownagirl]

I had an awesome brick today. I rode downtown to the triathlon site, rode one 10km lap of the bike route and had my best time going up the steep hill (2:00 min) and my overall time good (20:55 with 2 stop lights and a lot of stop signs), then I ran 3km in 17:11 which is a 9:05 min mile. I am stoked! I will be so happy if I can do under 30:00 for the run. I think 28:00 might be do-able. We shall see. The shins felt pretty good too.

Oh, and then I rode 13.5km home and had to climb 4km at the end. (slow.)

[Veronica]

Good job! It sounds like you are going to rock!

V.

[emily_in_nc]

4.5 miles on the treadmill... 10:24 pace overall (though two miles were at a 9:40 pace).

Have a good weekend, all!

~Emily

[katluvr]

Tomorrow is my first "tempo" type run on treadmill (again, new coach and training plan). I'll let you know how it is. To day is "restday"....think I need it to gear up to my tempo run and long run on Sat. (8 miles).

[lauriebizz]

I'm such a turtle... but here are mine for the week to date.


Mon Tues Wed
Miles 2.46 3.26 1.01
Time 30.03 38.54 9.33
Pace 12:11 11:53 9:29

Laurie

[OakLeaf]

Ho-hum. Blew off the club ride tonight because the weather looked iffy. Soon as I got back from my run it cleared up - but we went to a comedy club instead and the show was really funny!

5.1 miles, free run. Still slow, but I'm still having trouble adapting to the heat. At least the ozone wasn't up today - considering the humidity I was breathing fine.

My shoes are looking really worn, but according to my log I've only got 180 miles on them trying to figure if I might have missed some miles somewhere???

[OakLeaf]

Intervals today. DH had some errands to run in town so I took the opportunity to go in with him and run on the trail. I was thinking about doing a little solo ride, but I just wasn't motivated.

7 x 1 minute sprints with 1 minute walking recovery. Once again it had been so long since I'd done the program, it was different from what I thought it was I was expecting 90 second recoveries! But it was fine, by the end of the 1 minute my HR came down into Zone 1 every time - even with the heat and humidity.

3.8 miles total, with warmup and recovery jog.

[Shiraz]

I finally have time to post something. I was gone on vacation last week to Sun Valley. I did get a long run 11 miler in on the green belt which was very nice, but I had been sick the week before and the push put me over the edge and set me back. I came home Sunday sicker so needless to say this week has been "recovery". Sinus infection with the cough and crud.

I finally went out this AM for a very slow 5 miler but I got out!! My 1/2 is in 4 weeks so if I had to get sick better to get over with now.

Long run tomorrow morning....I hope I can do it

[alpinerabbit]

Brick - 40K bike with 3 good hills, 5.5K run @ race pace, 2:44 (it's slow getting out of the city and back) dunno how this will benefit me, but it hurts in a good way.