Describe Your Running Today, Part II

tpcb, the last totally comfortable run was no later than February.....no pain lately, just some stiffness and tightness.....no one chasing me, but I am chasing that guy that looks like me but is 10 pounds lighter.....I remember him from last summer......so I broke my every-other-day rule and put in 33' yesterday.....have a meet today, so it was either that or take two days off......things went well.....now have the same dilemma for the end of the week....do I run Wed & Thurs or take two days off?......I'll see how I feel on Wed.....

Today, no grape picking. A fastish run up and down Mt Ida, 42mins. A quiet run fauna wise with just one wallaby spotted.

Yesterday, picking until 1pm. Out for 80 minutes on the mtn bike, body was struggling so it was just spinning on forest trails. No shortage of marsupial companions.

Sunday, a long day of picking. Went up on the McIvor Range for a solid hour of hilly trail running. Daylight saving had ended previous night, caught a beautiful sunset at the top of Pannells Hill, Pannells is quite a sharp climb so it was well earned. Most of the roos were already down the bottom feeding in front of my house so I only had the wallabies for company.

Saturday, also a long day of picking. Fortunately the vinyard backs onto the Argyle Forest. As everyone else wandered off to the pub for a beer I happily tied on the racing flats, stripped off the shirt and galloped through the forest for a nippy 50min run over the trails.

Good Friday, a day off from picking so I headed down to the lake for a pleasant hour on the kyak. I had the company of 3 eagles for most of the journey. A delight to watch them do their fishing. Then it was time for a solid 80 min ride on the mtb.

Thursday, had to go into Bendigo in the afternoon. Stopped in a park in Kangaroo Flat for a run. I was hoping to find a trail that leads to a very impressive series of hills. As I was putting the flats on a clubmate pulled up in his car. He was planning on running up the very same hills. It is one of his favourite runs.

So he led me up some steep trails through forest for 30mins then 10mins rolling over paddocks to a trig point. From here we had an amazing view of the countryside to the west.

A very enjoyable 70mins of quite hard running by the time we made our way back to the cars.

I'm still around TPCB. My wife has 5 Uni assignments to complete so my access to the puter is a little limited at the moment.

Good to read you again mopak! Was hoping you were around. Best of efforts for the bride's assignments. Mine's pretty patient herself when it comes to LRC i think...

today:

busy busy busy, no running, no walking just moving around sedentarily about town and then work. I suppose worse than this is injury. I say it is tapering, yes i do.

mopak, by the way, how come you changed to capital M?

tpcb (not capitals)

The non capital version wouldn't let me post without a password last night, no idea what my password is.

a bit of a breakthrough as I cracked the 40' barrier for the first time in at least 2 months......42' to be precise......after going back-2-back on Mon/Tues I thought I'd keep it closer to 30-35, but felt quite good and went for it.....leg felt/feels very good and I'd say I'm at 95% right now......cannot run on Friday, so I may now take 2 days off before taking another crack at 40' on Saturday....

today:

half hour in the morning, very easy, away from home, but the weather is gorgeous. Miss the family, miss my park.

yesterday:

rest, gotta love rest days when you taper. Some people taper all their life, and it isn't necessarily a bad idea.

Boston inching closer, and only 329 days to The MOARG, The Mother Of All Running Gatherings, in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011

Saturday: in Milan, went for a 1hr plus in parco Sempione. Gorgeous day. Saw preparations for the milan city marathon finish. Later went to see the expo.

Sunday: Rome, 1hr easy in Villa Pamphili

Boston -8

Boston -7

Time to start thinking about the weather.

topped the 40' marker again on Saturday.....42' to be exact....some tightness when starting out, but things mostly loosened up after a few minutes.....some slight tightness remained throughout the run but nothing to force me to shut things down.....no running on Sunday, but took a nice bike ride.....will lace them up again today...

Rest

Good luck with Boston tpcb.

Yesterday, slow 30min jog on grass in the early morning after driving my son to work. In the afternoon I did a slow 70min run through the forests.

Sunday, after work I went to Kangaroo Flat and ran up the big hill I'd been up with JB a couple of weeks back. I added some extra back at the bottom for a total of 100mins, very slow.

Saturday, first club race of the season. A 5k on flat but muddy trail. First 2k went ok but from there on I struggled to hold my pace. Good to get one under the belt. I did 5k warmup and 3k cooldown.

Thanks mopak. Staying healthy, having fun, has been and will be the key issue.

today: 1hr very easy, high cadence spinning on a stationary bike. Might go for a run later.

30' yesterday.....kept it on the low side after a long-ish run on Saturday and a bike ride on Sunday.....still some stiffness but no cramping or pain.....the short term goal is to touch 45' within the next week.....long term goal is to get back to regular 50-60' runs for the summer.....keeping fingers crossed.....also good luck on Monday, tpcb.....we're all rooting for you...

tuesday off.....wednesday came up a few seconds short of 45'....could have done it but I was destinated and feeling good.....still the longest run in many weeks......progressing nicely......I'll bump my health index to 97%......very confident about surpassing 45' within the next few days....

Thanks SPCL O2!

I will try my joyful best.

Made it to Boston safely inspite of a the giant volcanic eruption which caused a lot of flights taking off from northern Europe to be cancelled, LOL. The whole incident was pretty wild.

Anyway, i ma jetlagged in Beantown.

Had some chowder at Legals and took a night walk down Boylston street and looked at the heavy duty workers mount the finish by Marathon Sports. Pretty inspiring stuff.

Stopped for tea at the DD (only place open) and now it time to go to bed... what a volcanic kinda day...

one hour very easy on the treadmill.

picked up my number at the expo.

Would be perfect if it were not for the rain...

8 miles easy. Finding my rhythm near the end.

Any 1st person encounters on the Boston course tpcb?

yeah, it was really special!

At heartbreak, i caught up with a college friend; at the very end with another runner i met at the start in NYCM. My father came down for the day and another buddy from highschool was also in town. It was awesome.

Dreamwise, a small PR 3h23m from 3:26 in NY so i am pretty psyched considering didnt do nearly enough long runs and i stopped for about 2 weeks after march 8.

Perfect day.