20' very easy on a flat route.....uphills still tough on the calf.....kept the pace very pedestrian-like, but I made it....some slight tightness toward the end, but no stopping.....a bit still there today, but mostly good.....will chill today and maybe give it a go again tomorrow......happy 4K, dyrt......
loltard, just the handle made me lol. Is that a case of recursion or recuriseveness?
O2, sounding good, its sunny here too.
(Sunny, hm hm hmmmm, Yestersday my life was filled with rai-ain..., oh oh, Sunny,... oh the dark days are gone, and the bright days are here, my sunny one shines so sincere...)
AM: "4K" (as usual but there's the landmark to acknowledge) walk to school and back, with some jogging in the last k. Talk about FRESH legs. Going for a lunchtime jog now.
-352 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings, in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011.
loltard wrote:
lol
haha skuj is still stalking rd. 4 min, what what!
Early PM:
45 minutes nice&easy in villa pamphili with ToninoS.
Busy week.
No running today as I was grape picking for 12 hours. Did about 5hrs as bucket boy. This entails trotting up the rows of grapes dropping off buckets for the pickers and gathering up the full ones and emptying them. A solid bit of work.
Yesterday, 10hrs picking with 5 on the buckets. Battled around a 2hr run after work. Did the figure 8 loop up on the McIvor Range which totals about 300m of elevation gain.
Tuesday, picking pus a solid ride up Mt Ida and back on the mtb. 64mins which is a pretty good time for me.
Monday, picking plus a strong session on the lake in the kyak, also did some weight training.
Tasmania continued ...
After descending East Pelion we crossed Pinestone Valley, ancient glacial valley dotted with boulders, pleasant walking with nice flowing streams to rehydrate ourselves.
Our campsite was at Kia Ora. Linda had already set up our tent. What a spot, the tentsite, as always on wooden platforms to protect the fauna, was tucked into bushland. Immediately to our east was the magnificently imposing Cathedral Mountain. To our west equally impressive Casle Crag. We also could see north to our friends Mt Ossa and East Pelion. We had ample freshwater from the fast running Kia Ora creek,also a lovely swimming hole below an impressive waterfall just metres from the campsite.
Our evening entertainmetn was provided by another very cheeky quoll.
Next morning we witnessed a beautiful sight as the sun rose over the "Cathedral".
This was waterfall day. 3 impressive waterfalls to find.
Our early hiking took us through thick rainforest below Castle Crag then to a clearing at the historic Du Cane Hut.
From there a short stint through more rainforest brought us to a track junction. We descended a very steep track and found ourselves at D'Alton Falls. Some nimble rockhopping and scrambling led us down to it's base.
After all the photo opps were exhausted we headed back up and worked through another rainforest track to reach Ferguson Falls. Similar nimble activities and photography activities were undertaken.
Our hike back up allowed us a chance to check the impressiveness of many of the ancient and giant eucalypts.
Back on the main Overland Track and 20mins more of hiking through sunlight deprived, moss covered forest brought us to another junction.
The secondary track took us through a more open forest to Hartnett Falls. This time we were standing on top of the falls with a sheer drop of some significant height. The option of trying to descend to the bottom looked a little beyond all of us so we just enjoyed the view from where we were.
This was followed by solid climb in light rain to the top of Du Cane Ridge.
The descent from here was brilliant. Steep, wet, slippery, and often very dark due to the dense tree canopy. It was mostly on tree roots, mossy rocks and rotted mossy timber.
The many old giants disappeared above my view. Many huge ancient fallen logs rotting into the earth with a host of various ferns growing on them among the mosses.
This was one of my favourite sections of the entire hike.
We reached Bert Nichols hut/campsite just as the skies emptied a weeks worth of rain in an hour.
Not surprisingly we chose to hut rather than tent.
The rain continued at torrential levels through out the night.
To be continued...
mopak,
in some respects i have gotten used to your flora&fauna masterpieces, yet they remain as galvanizing as a condensed webboard will allow.
It's the grape picking that got me this time. What a blast that must have been.
AM:
walk to school and various errands on the way back including fish market ect for 6k total.
Lunchtime:
2k wu, 6.5 of 12x hills with active recovery with buddy FrancoP (it's so great to run with him, just real steady on all accounts). Then at least another 4ks just socializing, and another 3k to school to pick up Ed. 2k walk back home. Feeling real relaxed.
1 month to Boston Marathon and only -350 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings, in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011.
yesterday:
home to paolo rosi track bike commute, kids athletics 1hr, bike commute back home
today: 2hr run in Cortona, including 30 diagonals on grass
Theres some thread .....psac..... that is 4000+ too
As a reg contib to this modest thread i have to add that what running dog states herein on a semi=reg basis puts me in muthaf***in tears.
Did a race yesterday, took it easy today...will run 8 tomorrow and am excited to be training for all the Rock 'n Roll marathons this year...next one is Nashville in April :)
Happy running :)
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AM: walk to school and back, 4k. Will run later. Mixed thoughts about barefoot finish at Rome Marathon. Bottom line is that a tribute is just subjectively that, a tribute.
Understandably RD is measuring the n. of posts. There are readings possobile.
The point of this thread could be to describe your running. Today.
Less than 1 month to Boston Marathon and only -347 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings, in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011.
things are looking better.....completed 20' on Friday with some minor tightness towards the end of the run.....took Saturday off......covered 24+' on Sunday with no additional damage.....no tightness this a.m......will take today off with the hopes of 25'-ish tomorrow.....there is a light at the end of the tunnel....
lunchtime
Villa Pamphili, 1hr plus with buddy FrancoP. Villa totally empty from marathon aftermath...
4000 wrote:
Theres some thread .....psac..... that is 4000+ too
Yes, that's a great thread too! But they have not been subject to the censorship that this thread has endured. See we used to have a troll problem. Ha ha! This guy caused a lot of problems - including suckering me into his little game - and that led to many many posts getting deleted. I have been on a voluntary hiatus from DYRT to help squash his seemingly insatiable thirst for causing me angst. So I believe that the second history marker for this terrific thread is the all time DYRT post count! Three cheers for DYRT and its many positive contributors!
Keep up the good work, all!
Running Dogg wrote:
4000 wrote:Theres some thread .....psac..... that is 4000+ too
Yes, that's a great thread too! But they have not been subject to the censorship that this thread has endured. See we used to have a troll problem. Ha ha! This guy caused a lot of problems - including suckering me into his little game - and that led to many many posts getting deleted. I have been on a voluntary hiatus from DYRT to help squash his seemingly insatiable thirst for causing me angst. So I believe that the second history marker for this terrific thread is the all time DYRT post count! Three cheers for DYRT and its many positive contributors!
Keep up the good work, all!
sometimes i posted her and in part 1 way back and i haveto say that you are nothing but trouble;
you willfully troll and make grand meaningless statements and i can attest to the fact that a lot of really positive contributers to these threads left once you showed up.
you contribute nothing to these threads but poison and then you seem to relish in some kind of leadership role in this grand achievement.
but i s'pose i am the only one who feels that way.
finally finally is back
How's the running?
Would you take your shoes off to cross a finish-line for 5000 euros?
today AM:
6k walk to school and back (added 2k in the park for the heck of it )
Still busy picking the grapes.
Today I went out for a 50min kyak session.
Yesterday was just an easy 5k jog after 10 hours picking and also taking up the netting.
Sunday, 12.5km run at a solid pace (56mins).
Saturday, 40mins kyak session on the lake. 70min hilly trail run on the McIvor Range.
Friday. A 25km ride up the Humevale hill and back.
This was a bit of a gut churning ride. Humevale and Kinglake West (1/2 way) were for many years my "2d home".
I ran and rode in this area at least weekly and when possible nearly daily.
Humevale Rd was obliterated by the fatal fires last year. This was the first time I'd been brave enough to visit this once majestic place.
The regeneration of the flora is underway on northern slopes. The steep southern slopes show a different story. This was once virtually impenetrable bushland. Now it is a sorry sight, almost no regeneration yet. Very unusual as Australian bush actually thrives on fire. Apparently the heat the fire generated as it roared up the slopes was far greater than is usually thee case.
At the top I stopped in to buy a drink from the Kinglake West shop as I always liked to do. The shop was burned to the ground but a small portable worksite style building is operating in it's place.
The ride down allowed me more extensive views. A few who escaped with their lives have started rebuilding. Many were not so lucky. There was one chimney left standing but otherwise nothing remains of the houses.
A bit of a tough session emotionally.
re environmental arson: here a few years back we had the Pinewoods in Castelporziano ruined by parks and recreation staff setting fires to keep their jobs, wtf
Lunchtime:
Adult track session, simple 50 minutes variations walking and running in slow, moderate and fast lanes (3,4,5). A bit like swimmking. Spent some time practicing very gradual accelerations and decelarations. Did it myself and felt really good.
-346 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings, in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011.
set off in yesterday's rain with hope for 25-30'.....first 20' were fine with no tightness......slightly tight after that....after 28:30 stopped to walk the last few uphill meters to hopefully keep things manageable......some slight tightness this morning, but nothing too serious.....day off today with hopes for finally cracking 30' tomorrow.....we'll see....