11 miles on the treadmill (1%) in 72:14. Best run I've had in a while.
11 miles on the treadmill (1%) in 72:14. Best run I've had in a while.
AM: drive to school (daughter hurt her knee slipping on the ground) Then 35 mins walk with bride in Villa Pamphili. very pleasant.tpcb
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11 miles on the treadmill (1%) in 72:14. Best run I've had in a while.
Lunchtime: adult walking group at university track, 1 hour, about 5k plus drills.
The 30 mins tempo by myself on grass, and 8x120m strides on diagonals plus drills on recovery sides. awesome.
AM. Mid- winter trail run. Temp@ -18F, calm air. Trees cracking and snapping in response to the physical stresses of contracting wood. Trees wrestling against the expansion of embedded water forming ice.
One turkey took to the crystalline, pure Arctic air we are immersed in.
tpcb, A far cry from the towers of Milan. Good to read of your exploits. They keep the thread alive.
Winter; Stark, serene, a dispassionate authoritarian that brokers no folly, and takes no prisoners.
Hey driske! good to read you again. Sorta missed you but, yaknow, Real Men are not supposed to write things like that, LOL!
today: kids athletics, they locked up the Paolo Rosi track at the last minute due to a lot of unecessary confusion, so we had about 50 kids outside in the rain in the parking lot in front and a few of us WTF'ing on the cell phones to get the place opened and gain access to the indoor track.
Good day, we won, kids got to run and we had a very energetic session just because everybody was so psyched to get out of the rain!
yesterday: rest, been loading up during the week.
And yes: another "100" days have just gone by. We are close to starting to negative-split to:
The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011
Only 398 days to go.
today: long run skipped due to house chores, mangaed to run a couple of ks with daughter after she finisched her homework; then ran to work, about 25 mins. Will walk or run home.
another 30' on the 'mill Friday.....no major problems.....still some sporadic twinges/tightness in the left calf.....will do another session today or tomorrow.....maybe a 'real' run on the weekend?......
7 on the mill@1% in 49:45. 4 day hiatus did not do me any good.
yesterday:
night-walked home in a brisk 45 mins. WOnderful to learn on LR that i am following the Bakken protocol and didn't know.
today:
AM - walk to school and back , 4k
Lunch: 45 mins run in Villa Pamphili with PaoloC, some of it allegro but not troppo...
got a little ambitious yesterday......was sending the group off on their run and was overtaken by the fresh air......passed up the 'mill for a jog around the pond.....even took a loop around the (mostly) snow free track.....kept it slow to avoid any issues.....completed about 29' with only a little soreness of the hammy......probably due to a fall on the ice the day before.....all is well the morning after...
AM: 4k walk to school and back
lunchtime: 2x1hr adult session group at the track. A bit taxing because i missed lunch. Decent turnout considering *cold*!
-395 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011
7 more on the treadmill this AM. Glad to hear you got outside, special O2. What incline do you usually use? I've seen 1% elsewhere but it always seems faster than the effort deserves. Still new to the mill but looks like I'll be on it for a while.
AM: 6k walk to school and back
ms, no incline for me.....on the 'mill because of calf issues so flatter is better......all is well the second day after my 'real' run.....will try again tomorrow .... hopefully....
today:
Run to work. Stopped on the way in Villa Pamphili for a quick 30mins tempo run.. Will walk home.
Lunchtime: track adult group. Healthy and well attended session, 2 hours solid.
-393 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011
A falling tree took out power and phone lines last friday. The internet and phone have now been reconnected, glad Telstra are so prompt and efficient that it only took them 6 days.
Okay, yesterday 70mins of running up on the steep McIvor Range. Wet and muddy which is pretty exciting given our 12 years of drought. I ran out of the driveway to a chorus of "laughing" kookaburras. Kangaroos everywhere, they love the rain. Wallabies crashing through the scrub. Cockatoos and galahs screeching. A very pleasant morning run.
Wed. the return of the mountain bike from the mechs. 70mins riding up on the McIvor. 30mins of which was grinding small chain ring climbs at 5-6kph. Happy to be back on the bike in the forests.
Tue. Early morning hike over the range with wife, neighbour and neighbour's dad. 2h30m carrying heavy pack.
45mins out in the kyak and then 2 laps of the tough Mandurang 5k trail loop -26.00 and 23.45.
Mon. 55mins on the windtrainer -Progression ride going through the gears. 20mins warming up by going 5mins through each of the 4 lowest gears then 4mins, 3mins, 2mins, 1min continuous through the 4 highest gears. Then drop a gear and slide back through 1,2,3,4, before finishing with 15mins of low gear spinning.
Recovery run, 7 miles at 7:15 pace or so.
Knees were hurting a little actually.
5 yesterday, 9 today, still on the mill but finally picking up the pace a little.
AM:
Walk to school and back, 4k
O2, More Superlative: got to admit, i am feeling the effects of solitude a little.
If this was an experiment for the benefits of running in a group, the fact that mopak, driske, gonzo, HR123, Finally, Jacques, Track Chick, Brett in Tokyo, others i dont immediately recall, and even our beloved trolls are absent, does make a case for the sensation of fatigue slowly emerging when running alone or in numbers few.
I am partially comforted what i would describe as a long-existing awareness/feeling about "our" sport being a "team" sport, in spite of copious literature saying exactly the opposite, calling it an individual sport.
Runners are, of course, also quite used to solitary conditions and in fact, sometimes, even thrive on them.
Yet i have these feelings that in precisely those moments, of fatigue, abandon, and near surrender to the limits, they think, reflect and gain strenght from their Team. Whomever, whatever it may be.