Did you run today (XMAS)?

7 miles in the afternoon. A comfy 38 F and sunny.

9 mi easy. Unseasonably warm here in the Ohio Valley.

45 miles on the bike.

It was a harsh winter but I ran 12 miles on Christmas morning. It was a hard session and I got home, showered and felt pretty happy with what had done.
Later that afternoon, sitting back after Christmas lunch, I began to feel uneasy but was not quite sure why. Suddenly it dawned on me.
I thought: "I bet Steve Ovett's out there doing his second training session of the day."
I put the kit back on, faced the snow and ice and did a second training session. I ran several miles, including some hill work.
Not long ago, I told him the story. He laughed. Did you only go out twice that day?' he asked.

4.5 hilly miles at an easy pace in the late afternoon. It was right around freezing all day today, so the footing was a little treacherous.

was christmas yesterday here

5 miles. After all the GD sugar cookies I had to do something

I dominated the 5k parkrun (more like cross country course) laying waste to 320 souls in a blistering 18 minutes. They will remember me forever.

I did 11 at a moderate pace then ate like a total POS.

Side note: I think people doing long, continuous tempos weekly over months and months of training is one of the most underrated dumb things in hobbyjogging. Referring specifically to the lot of people out there who have marathons in late April or may and who are already banging out 6 mile “tempos.” I have a hobby jogger friend who basically races his tempos each week, is obsessed with pace of tempo, and who glorifies the “grind.” He’s been injured for most of two years & would be a lot faster had he just scraped the continuous tempos and been consistent over that same time. And a fairly large group of my friends believe any threshold work done in intervals is too easy and are incredibly arrogant in their disregard of the threshold stimulus and other approaches to training threshold…their plan seems to be to do long continuous tempos weekly+ speed+ long run over a 7 day schedule week over week for five months or so, amidst work and life, linearly progressing the pace each week without any thought to fatigue or load, and when they bomb their race, they blame the training plan they didn’t follow as being too easy lol.

8.15 mile recovery run.

Took advantage of 70 degree weather here in New Mexico and did 7 miles of Fartlek alternating miles between easy and threshold pace then eased into an 800 at Half Marathon effort and finished off with 2 x 400 at 5k pace with a 400 jog recovery.

My post got pure downvotes...nailed it!!

Well it was 109 degrees where I was yesterday in Perth for Christmas so no run for me. On the east coast senior female and junior male going to World xc trained as normal with the big dance only 16 days away.

of course. did my weekday standard 9 mile loop. what else would i be doing between football games?

Rained last night and 27f, so everything is covered in ice. Rode my indoor trainer for 90 minutes instead of running.

7 miles ez. I’m not Seb Coe but it’ll have to work today

It's CHRISTmas, not Xmas. Get it right. Do better next time

I didn't put that in the title at all originally. It got added in without my doing anything. Had I just titled it something like "did you run this Christmas day?" we wouldn't be having this discussion.