Describe Your Running Today, Part II

mopak- i enjoy reading your training...it all seems very "relaxed and natural".

i didn't run a step over the weekend. but today over lunch did 9+ miles in just under 1 hour. the route included ~20min hills / 20min trails / 20 min trails. felt good.

hoping for a decent 5k in a few weeks and maybe a half marathon the week after that. and then a trail race at the end of may.

mopak,

100 roos? That must be quite a sight!!!

today: bike commute

The golf course is watered (by recycled domestic water ) so is green, a rarity in drought ravaged Central Victoria. Very popular with the local macropods.

Turned at the top of my recovery jog and saw a mass of grey/brown had moved to the top of the fairway. Running at top speed towards them would have caused them to panic so I just moved across a few hundred metres to a vacant fairway.

The fact we have 10s of thousands of the creatures around here tends to make you a bit blase at times. I do still get a kick out of walking out in the morning to see 20 or so grazing on (what's left) of my front lawn however.

On a more sombre note tpcb what's the situation with earthquake?

Slacker, yes it is very much relaxed and natural. I actually need to make a bit of an effort to do a bit of "real" training in place of fun running so I can race a bit quicker.

snuck out for about 32' yesterday.....had to cut it short to catch the bus.....away meet for the gang......cold and windy, so not much to brag about.....this is spring?......at least it stayed dry....

earthquake so far:

272 dead

28,000 homeless

15 still missing

100 injured in serious condition

widesprad devastation

One family i know well barely escaped. Their neighbor had just bought an apartment in the same buildign with a 30-year mortgage: all flattened.

Seven years ago I spent four days on another earthquake in Molise region when 27 children and their teacher were killed in their classroom. I get very empathic in these situations. I almost didn't sleep. Anyway earthquakes are like bombings without the bombs. Maybe that's even more destabilizing. You can't blame the planet for moving. You can't blame anybodu to soothe anything. Apart from badly constructed buildings the bottom line is, it's pure suffering...

today: 11k easy with buddy TS, so far recovering splendidly from colon cancer. Felt good to run and chat with him.

As you mention, tpcb, the natural disasters are often the toughest to absorb since there was really nothing anyone could do to prevent the devastation. We must not lose hope, however. Your buddy TS is a prime example of this!

I'm being lazy today in more ways than one. I am shirking some responsibilities in favor of tying together a few loose ends related to personal matters. Got to sleep later, too! Ha, ha! No running planned today as I was a bit leg weary during yesterday's 45 minute jaunt. That concluded another 3-out-of-4 days, so a day off is in order. Tomorrow is another day. Ha, ha!

Keep up the good work, all! Enjoy the fresh air (wink, wink). Ha, ha!

today: 25 mins slow jog with Luca and Paola. Then 5x600 on grass at about 2:00 - 2:05. 50m qaudrupedia, 50m jog recovery. 2k cd

A very enjoyable 8K at a very "relaxed" pace. Ha, ha! Finished up with 4 x 70m barefoot striders. It felt nice to touch up the turnover a bit. I'll recover with a bit of landscaping work and then a pint or two. Ha, ha!

It's good to see the atmosphere improved around here. It's amazing what one person can do. Ha, ha!

Keep up the good work, all!

today: started easy in the park. then this german tourist got on my heels and we ended running together from Villa Pamphili to piazza navona chatting about all sorts of things. He was really puzzled about the vibrams 5f and i told him for me they are a joyride. He said he had a 3h08mins PR on the marathon. About 1hr total with big up and down Gianicolo hill,

someday at some point that sort of time should really be within my reach.

Splendid, just splendid.

Running Dogg wrote:

A very enjoyable 8K at a very "relaxed" pace. Ha, ha! Finished up with 4 x 70m barefoot striders. It felt nice to touch up the turnover a bit. I'll recover with a bit of landscaping work and then a pint or two. Ha, ha!

It's good to see the atmosphere improved around here. It's amazing what one person can do. Ha, ha!

Keep up the good work, all!

Ha, ha! F*** you are annoying. (Do any 10x300s in 40 lately?)

Today was a nice sunny 15mins thru the forest tto a 300ish metre hill. I did 6 x 70sec hill reps (72,71,69,71,74,69)then 15mins thru the forest to finish. Even though it was 1.30pm there were plenty of roos and wallabies about.

Yestwrday I did a nice relaxed 80min ride. Started out along the creek then up into the One Eye Forest. Had the company of a wedge tail eagle overhead for several kms.

Visited the in-laws interstate. Got home around 10pm and did an easy 30min jog.

Thursday was a rolling 70 min run mostly thru the One Eye, a few hills. Just cruising at about a 4.30 per km pace.

I see our "friend" is still lurking after all. Ha, ha! Nevertheless, he obviously grows tired of his trolling since the good people of DYRT tend to ignore most of his foolishness. You folks are the greatest! No one is more important than anyone else on this thread. Let's keep focused and keep rocking!

My own running will include a day off today. I feel good after yesterday's jaunt, but there has been some leg weariness lately, so I will err on the side of caution. I look forward to tomorrow, however, when I can get an early morning run done and perhaps see the Easter bunny. Ha, ha!

Keep up the good work, all!

Took a day off; did some cross-training sexytime with girlfriend.

Gary,

remember dh elger?

mopak, the finish line of the maple marathon is in sight.

tpcb, I'll be back in a few days. Sorry for the losses sustained in Italia.

It seems winter just won't let go. Ha, ha! Still, this determined trooper bundled up and hit the roads and trails. Completed a satisfying 50-plus minutes, though some bushwacking and an occasional stiff headwind had a deleterious effect on the min/km. I'll just keep that under my (woolen) hat. Ha, ha!

I continue to enjoy the simple pleasures of modestly paced aerobic training. It is especially enjoyable as spring bursts forth (hopefully a little faster - ha, ha). Any thoughts of returning to serious training are fleeting at best. Still, I know to never say never. Time has a funny effect on things.

A Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today. Keep up the good work, all!

driske,

the quake.

homes made with corrosive seasand mixed with the "armoured cement." Collective idiocy? Unthinkable naivete'? The mother of all WTFs? All i know is that some people have no tears left in their eyes and the earth will not stop shaking. 38000 building to be inspected, investigation just started. The rubble dont lie.

today: beautiful 45mkins/10k with my buddy Andrea from Padova on a mile loop in Mostacciano. Relax-ed to the max-ed...

touched 50' with no apparent ill effects.....slow but sure....had started to lose some of the winter holiday poundage.....one Easter Sunday undoes everything.....ham, chocolate, etc......i cannot resist.....

Yes Easter sunday was not good in the regard to my dietary intake!! Had an ordinary run on sunday. Didn't get out until late and had a heavy gut. I was running around the fairly bleak northern 'burbs of Melbourne in the dark, a far cry from the usual. 45mins in and I had to visit the toilets at a fast food chain. A very so so 65min trot.

Today was a more pleasant experience 85mins on the mtn bike around the forests at home. The traffic was of the marsupial kind instead of the automobile kind.