Describe Your Running Today, Part II

Yesterday was 13 miles (4.5 warm up, 4 mile tempo run, 4.5 mile c/d.

This morning hit a 7 miler, probably going to do another 5 and some strides this evening.

rest

18K heavy duty trail race coming up sunday

Tues, 4.3 miles including 10x's 100 meter strides on grass with the High Schooler's.

Weds. Sore and tired, took the day off.

Thurs.AM 5.7mi.in 48. 48F and breezy. Legs felt great.

The drum performance was an abstract visual challenge, I admit. But the color it surely brought to that event must be applauded. Maybe it walks that fine line Yogi Berra so desperately tried to describe when he uttered"Anybody who is popular is bound to be disliked."

A deuce with stretching, after wet vacuuming my basement after a washing machine pump malfunction.

Foot feels good lately. Planning to up it to 4 miles over the weekend and see how the PF reacts.

driske,

the sheer precision of your thought is so appreaciated.

Believe it or not, the drum-thing actually had important side to it.

I have found that in "coaching" children athletics - intended as stimulating motivation, making it challenging and fun while not being authoritative or worse despotic, generating genuine self-interest - requires a fair amount of what i would describe as "letting go."

There is a level of improvizational behaviour, to be lived at the children's level, which turns out to be extremely useful. What I am trying to say: you don't need to be a clown, but you need to seriously let loose.

And letting loose, like all things, can benefit from a little more-or-less impromptu practice. It is easy to be kid-like in front of kids. It is quite unbearable, most of the time, to be kid-like, sorrounded by competitive peers.

And speaking of letting go, this is an image that often pops up: running, contracted, straining, like with a thick, existential rubber-band tied to your back, which strains and creaks as it gradually stops lengthening, getting taut-er and taut-er... then suddenly snapping, like a wild whip, causing you to run faster than fast, trying to avoid it crushing you in the back...

happy running.

1 mile run to the park for cross country practice after school..2 mile run at cross country practice....1600 meter run on the track by myself in 4:54.69!!! only 5 secs away from my PR of last years track

PM. On the track.48F. Calm.

1.5 mile WU

110@22

200@42

300@62

400@83

600@2:10

800@2:58

800@2:54

800@2:51

1 mileCD@ 8 min.

Those are some fortunate kids you are coaching.

way to maintain on the 800s!

Today: bike commute. 18x100m warmup, 1x400m to get legs rolling

32' easy on monday and about 37' on wednesday....making a careful comeback after tweaking a hip flexor last week....must have stepped in a hole on the trails....everything seems to be working according to plan.....will try again this afternoon....

Sorry, need to correct:

Today:

AM 45 minutes easy in the park with buddies. So easy and relaxed forgot to mention...

PM 18x100m warmup, 1x400m to get legs rolling

kids athletics. 1 hour, part under the rain...

Friday PM.Calm, 34F, 6.2 unclocked Miles.

Had to force myself out the door, but it went OK once in motion.

Yesterday: went out for what was going to be a 30:00 effort, but stepped in a rut with my left foot after moving across a road to avoid traffic. I caught myself before spraining an ankle.

I slowed, felt OK, kept going...up a short, steep hill. 2/3 of the way up my left calf got weird: it felt like a cramp was moving from the bottom, then up and down. The pain got intense, so bad that I had to stop 3x, hobbling home. As near as I can figure I have a BAD calf sprain.

It's out the outer part of my calf, maybe halfway up. I must've just tweaked it enough when my foot got caught to trigger something, then running uphill finished it.

DAMN!!!

Today: Walked about 2 miles gingerly. 2 aspirin in the AM, 2 at noon have got me through the day. All this after I put my PF problems behind me.

Walked a mile and a quarter very carefully. I stopped to try to stretch and definitely feel something is wrong with that left lower leg.

Damn.

I was going to race next weekend. Not now.

gonzo,

sorry to be out of synch but I had my first great trail race. Placed 30th which for me is unusual. More details later if interested. Gotta work. Get better, i wish for you.

Congrats. What was the distance?

I'm just havin' a longish bad luck streak, it seems.

Just did my first 2 hr long run ever, and other than a little tightness in my hip, felt amazing!

Oops! Looks like I came back to DYRT too soon as our troll friend is obviously still paying attention. Oh, well, I guess we should have expected that. Bizarre behaviour is difficult to change. We can still hope that he will grow up soon, So Kick Up Jack! ha ha!

I'm still staying off the track in the hopes of improved aerobic efficiency. Just finished 6 days of 70-100' minute runs at mostly conditioning pace. I'm feeling stronger and ready for more challenges, but I'm going to stick with this for awhile.

Good luck to all of you. Keep up the good work!

I'm confused. Are you calling me a troll? Who is the troll?