*Week 335*
Greetings, 50+ers! Really enjoyed everyone's posts last week, especially the several posts from amkelley inre: her HM and subsequent ruminations. Kudos on the race, and as a fairly low mileage guy, I totally get what you mean regarding post-race soreness. Whenever I've not done enough race-pace prep work, I get very sore, especially in the calves.
Nice mile race, SpikePlate! And welcome! Look forward to reading about your training.
Congrats on the new family member, Allen1959, and to props KP's family/team triumphs.
Glad to see some people recovering nicely from their setbacks. Hope for continued progress on that front.
As for me, about like last week: 5 days with a modest workout and 25+ miles again. Log looks as such:
Sun: 5.1 mostly easy (~8:05/mi) except 4th mile @7:18
Mon: Off
Tue: 4.6 XC workout with some hill repeats
Wed: Off
Thu: 7.5 steady (7:59/mi) longest run since May
Fri: 3.2 easy-to-moderate (7:36/mi avg)
Sat: 5.0 dead legs (7:59/mi)
I was worried the week would be a bust when I tweaked my back Monday morning (too much grading with inadequate posture over the weekend, I suspect.) Thankfully, despite issues walking and standing up from a sitting position, I've been able to run without pain; it's still kinda jacked-up. At any rate, the XC workout on Tuesday was over at Masterson Station. The course could be pretty fast or pretty sloppy, depends on the weather. It was drizzly all day Tuesday, so it was sloppy. There are sections of the course that have a ton of mole tracks; not sure if they'll be ironed out for December. Was really pleased with Thursday's "long" run. It was my first run of over 7 miles since May, and was done without any breaks and was even a bit faster for the second half. I could only manage a short run Friday so it was run progressively, and Saturday, I had to sneak a run in late (during the final minutes of the first half and during halftime of the Badgers big victory!) Legs had no pop, and I had to stop at about 3 miles to stretch.
That's it from the Bluegrass. Hope you are running/recovering well, and as always, I look forward to reading more fall race reports.
All the Best!
PS-they ran a preview race on the XC Club Nats course yesterday, unfortunately, I couldn't be out there due to other activities during the day. Some of my teammates did run, and said it was good, except they got misdirected off the real course at some point and ran 0.2 miles long. I'm sure that'll get straightened out.