Running into July 6/29-7/5

[OakLeaf]

What, Wednesday and I'm first?! C'mon ladies, I need these threads for motivation.

15 minute tempo run between raindrops, plus warmup and recovery jog. Felt pretty good.

So I'm walking my cooldown and having a recovery snack (aka picking black raspberries as fast as I can shove them into my mouth while still sort of walking ), when I hear this rustling in the woods. It's too slow and sustained to be the usual squirrels, chipmunks or birds. I move around, trying to see what it is without spooking the critter. It takes me a couple of minutes before I finally see the black back and white stripe.

Don't let me bother you, dude. I moved on.

[limewave]

Nice slow trail run. I love the woods.

Glad I didn't run into any skunks on the way . . .

[katluvr]

I admit I was waiting for someone to start the thread and I can FINALLY join it again. I really have not been running at all. I actually have been barely working out/training for the past few months. But have my first Tri coming up. It is hot as hades in FL and humid. So I did the TM thingy. 5 min walk (WU) and then 20 minute run...worked up to 5.5--which is normally where I like to hang out on long runs. It was a bit fast considering I really haven't run. When I don't run for a while and finally get back to it, I realize how much I miss it. Oh yeah, I did a 5 min walk CD. (No black berries or skunks on my CD walk).
Oh yeah, I am sure I'll be VERY intermittant on running. My tri is a sprint, I can easily (but slowly) do the bike and run distance, my main training is in the swim. Cuz I just started that.
But just maybe I'll slip in another run this week.

[limewave]

Just finished an interval workout at the track. I was so tired this evening I was planning no vegetating on the couch. But DH came home and kicked me out with my running shoes in hand. So off I went . . .

[kacie tri-ing]

I am posting. That's right. 1/2 mile on a real (not the underwater) treadmill. I am starting to get excited. I know I have to continue to be patient, but I RAN! Yippie! And there was not even any pain! Ok, well that's all I have here! I am going to go cheer for the tens of thousands that will run the peachtree 10K right past my house in the morning (and not be bitter about not running, because I am slowly back on track).

[Jolt]

Glad I didn't run into any skunks on the way . . .

That would really stink!

[OakLeaf]

Yay Kacie! Take it slow now....

Heart rate intervals on the track, before my haircut this morning.

Nothing to do with running, but right now I'm watching a mother red-bellied woodpecker feed her baby with seeds and suet from my feeder. They're so cute!

[yellow]

Nothing to do with running, but right now I'm watching a mother red-bellied woodpecker feed her baby with seeds and suet from my feeder. They're so cute!

On my run today we (my running buddy and I) stopped to watch some pine grosbeaks picking bugs off of a snow patch. I'm entertained most by simple things like that. Not sure what that says about my simple little brain...

Did my first run "up high" (> 9000' MSL) this season earlier in the day. I started feeling the effects of elevation at about 8500'...took me a bit to figure out what was going on! Beautiful out on the trail today...lots of flowers, birds singing, thunderclouds approaching... But it looks like today's prediction of MORE RAIN AND THUNDER AND WHATNOT (ENOUGH already!) might not pan out.

So done with the rain this year!

[skhill]

Ran my first ever race this morning, and it was fantastic! A 10k, and the miles just flew by... and I managed to meet all my goals (1. finish 2. not be last in my age group 3. do it in about 1 hour (1:00.42)). And I know I could have done it faster-- I had plenty left in the tank...

Some of the coolest things: the live band playing on the porch of a stately mansion on the route, and the dixieland jazz band playing at the turn-around. The spectators drinking coffee in their bathrobes, and the women in their derby hats drinking mimosas as we went by their homes. The most not-cool thing: finding myself rightbehind a shirtless guy who had a huge tattoo of a naked woman on his back.... Oh well, it was good motivation to speed up and pass him!

And now I can't wait to do this again!

[OakLeaf]

Way to go skhill! It's a rush isn't it.

[mudmucker]

Ran my first ever race this morning, and it was fantastic! A 10k, and the miles just flew by... and I managed to meet all my goals (1. finish 2. not be last in my age group 3. do it in about 1 hour (1:00.42)). And I know I could have done it faster-- I had plenty left in the tank...

Some of the coolest things: the live band playing on the porch of a stately mansion on the route, and the dixieland jazz band playing at the turn-around. The spectators drinking coffee in their bathrobes, and the women in their derby hats drinking mimosas as we went by their homes. The most not-cool thing: finding myself rightbehind a shirtless guy who had a huge tattoo of a naked woman on his back.... Oh well, it was good motivation to speed up and pass him!

And now I can't wait to do this again!

+1 on the way to go. I like your notes on the cool things...

On my run today we (my running buddy and I) stopped to watch some pine grosbeaks picking bugs off of a snow patch. I'm entertained most by simple things like that. Not sure what that says about my simple little brain...

I would've stopped to watch a pine grosbeak too. But then, I am an avid birder but pine grosbeaks are few and far between where I am. I'll see one every once in a great while every 4 years or so usually when we get a winter irruption from the north.

Nothing to do with running, but right now I'm watching a mother red-bellied woodpecker feed her baby with seeds and suet from my feeder. They're so cute!

Again as a birder, in way past years I never saw many red-bellies where I live. Seems in the last few years I've been seeing more. I've heard that some of the expert birders are saying they think the northern extent of their home range has expanded a little further. But I've not seen breeding with young. The prize I have in my yard are breeding yellow-bellied sapsuckers.

[roadie gal]

Good going Kacie and skhill! Triumphs for both of you!

I finally made my 90 minute run. I went out on the trails behind my house and up into the multi-user/ equestrian trails. Luckily it wasn't nearly as hot as they'd predicted.

One thing about running on trails that horses use, they churn the dirt into 3 inches of powder that makes it very hard to see the rocks and roots. I almost twisted my ankle a couple of times when I couldn't see buried rocks. But it was still a lovely run.

[OakLeaf]

Long run day. Between the weather and the holiday I hadn't got my laundry done, so I discovered this morning that I had neither a clean hi-viz top, nor a supportive bra, nor shorts that don't ride up.

I slathered Body Glide on my thighs, put on two less-supportive bras, but hi-viz I wasn't willing to compromise on. So I pulled one out of the laundry basket. Where it had been lying underneath a pair of dirty cycling shorts.

Nine stinky miles. (Not that I noticed it much after the initial shock of putting the top on.) Worse was that my asthma has been acting up. Since it's allergic, not exercise-induced, I don't use a rescue inhaler before a workout (it would just drive up my BP and HR). It was a good 3-4 miles, and a fair amount of climbing, before the immune-suppressing cortisol kicked in and I could really breathe. But anyway I felt good, if tired, by the end of it.