RE: Describe Your Running Today

im sitting around trying to hydrate and stay cool before a 3000m race tonight. its the first 3000 of my life....its gonna hurt.

Skuj!

How's it goin' dude? I'm jealous about your trip to Long Beach. I've gotta get over there and do some sand dune training sometimes soon. It's been too long. As far as training is going I'm still struggling to get fully healthy. The week after my promising 5000 in Oregon I messed up my left glut on a hill workout. I've been running on it for the past 11 days (still got in a 110 mile week) but it keeps getting tighter every time I do a hard workout. This morning, after running slowly for 5 miles, I finally decided that I need to take the weight off, so I headed to the gym and finished with 35 minutes on the elliptical machine. Did some foam roller massage on my glut and IT Band afterwards as well as some core and upper body work. Hopefully a few days of elliptical will allow it to heal properly ...

This evening I'm planning on approximating my track session on the elliptical. The planned workout was 6 x 800m at 3000m effort + 600m cutdown with 2 minutes recovery, so I'll just go by time and effort instead.

It was a cross-training day: Mountain biked 12 miles of rooty, rocky, gnarly singletrack. Can't wait to go back and run that trail.

sucked

6 miles to work at 7am in rain over road with 2 steep uphill surges of approx 400m in 43mins.

Tonight circuit session in gym for 2 hours, medicine ball hurt. Ran home again in rain 3 miles steady. Collapsed in bath and looking forward to running to work in morning- boring day really - but got to be done eh?

10am this morning - 7 miles on the sunset bike path, easy

9pm tonight - a naked 4 miler along the perimeter of the golf course; chance of fast pick-ups in the event campus security makes an appearance in the area

should be a good one

I would have responded to your other "Neverending" threads, but for the last 2 months I couldn't post on this sight. I let this situation go for awhile since I needed a break from posting here anyways (I still looked about though). Seeing your new thread today I was finally motivated to fixed my Norton Internet Security problem. I'll keep you undated my friend. Have a great session tonight!

4km, 9am, on the road, with my two feet, tapering for a marathon this sunday.

I ran 4 miles easy a couple of hours ago around our rec center's gravel/dirt one-mile loop. It was pouring rain and flooded in some parts. I think cars driving by thought I was crazy, which is probably true, but I'd rather run in a thunderstorm than in a hot, stuffy building on a treadmill. Later tonight I'm swimming 30 minutes and biking 45 minutes.

AM: 10 mile progression run before school (I'm sick and I think I'm anemic so the breathing was not as smooth as it usually is)

PM: 4 miles slow during (offseason) track (it's really hot today, in the 90s)

I live in Alaska, and went for an 8 mile run (approx.) on trails, with some dirt road, along a river. Ran mostly easy, but I did 8 pickups of 20-25 sec each, with 35-40 sec recovery at pace. Just a pleasant run under mostly clear skies, calm winds, and temps in the mid-40s.

Sometimes I see osprey, eagles, or grouse on this course but didn't see anything today.

Had a pretty easy dual meet today...I'm focusing on mile/two mile this outdoor season, but I ran the 800 and the 4x4 just as a workout. Two miles warmup, three miles cooldown, won the 800 in 2:04.6 and split a slightly pedestrian 56.5 in the 4x4. I'm hoping to run 9:40 or thereabouts in the deuce the weekend after this.

@ 6 miles, most on the Wabash Trace, it was alot dryer than I thought it would be.

Slow or at least it felt that way, and old as well today. One of the things I have found out about being 40 is that some days you feel old and some days I don't, but the old days are hard to take.

18 Miles in 1:55 on a great hilly course. Hadn't really been able to run in a couple of days because of an adductor injury, but just said screw it, this long run will make it get better... and you know what, it feels much better now than pre-run.

I did 20min jog + strides + 1000m-600m-800m-800m-600m-1000m on roads, in 3:22-1:57-2:42-2:39-2:01-3:12. I really pushed the last one. Weather cool, some sun, wet roads post rain. I felt OK, not great, not bad.

How is it that my last 1000m today was quite close to my recent 1500m race time? I mean, WTF? :)

(I started this thread because it gives ANYONE the opportunity to talk about their running. Even A.S. I have read every post on here with sincere interest.)

Stan Croft wrote:

@ 6 miles, most on the Wabash Trace, it was alot dryer than I thought it would be.

Slow or at least it felt that way, and old as well today. One of the things I have found out about being 40 is that some days you feel old and some days I don't, but the old days are hard to take.

Hahaha! Oh, I know!

asdfasdfasdf wrote:

im sitting around trying to hydrate and stay cool before a 3000m race tonight. its the first 3000 of my life....its gonna hurt.

Well? :)

Did 8 miles this morning before my first class. Part of the path I run on was closed for construction so I had to improvise. I ended up running the last part of the marathon route I completed on April 29th (still recovering). Good run. Weather was warm, too much so for my taste. Hamstrings were tight, knee was sore. In other words, it felt great.

Ran 4 miles around the track easy and did some strides.

My third run back after taking off 2 weeks, legs are sore. I feel like a newbie again!