Describe Your Running Today, Part II

Aw, Running Dogg, what about me?

4.6 miles on a hilly route; very warm and humid today for October...odd, maybe this Global Warming is for real? It's unusual for my lawn to be so brown this time of year.

I plan to stick with 5K racing until next spring, perhaps permanently, in the hope of getting the legspeed back.

Also, it's easier, schedule-wise to keep the runs at a crisp 30 minutes at my age. There are 5k's pretty much everywhere year-round now to scratch the racing itch.

Nothingh but hills (it felt like it) for 8 miles @ 68* with 90% humidity. For October. My quads are barking at me right now.

...and play day at the track with the kids it was, but one of the instructors was sick, so they asked for volunteer parents to take the the small group (4-7-y-olds), so i did, and went insane trying to keep it interesting,.. fun running around like animals and doing this jump-and-clap drill to kill all these gnats hovering over our head...way to humid for this time of year... kids loved it, kept on coming up with their hands open saying "look how many i killed!"...

Thanks Yank, the point, and Bigfoot for your posts. I think you are all doing a great job!

Well, I got onto the track today for a "welcome back" session as Coach referrred to it. After a good warmup, the plan was to try for 5 x 1K at the 3K pace I was using before the recent illness and injury. The first 3 went well, but the 4th one I fell of the pace and we bagged the last one. Still, I'm encouraged. I think the tough weather conditions may have contributed to the aborted training.

We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I'm optimistic and think I am about 85% of the way back. Time will tell.

Good luck to all of you with your running.

Ran for 51:57, cool with some wind.

AHR 136 MHR 143

14 miles inc 3 x 15 mins at T pace - last long workout before half marathon next weekend.

Got in a quick 44' this am before I had to go to a wedding.

35 minutes easy. Still hot and humid.

Today: 3 miles warmup, 24x200m on the track, then 3 miles cooldown. The 200s were 32-33 secs for the first few and gradually got faster, finishing in 28-29 secs for the last ones. Recovery between pieces was 100m slow jog.

Tomorrow: I think I'll go bandit the BAA half marathon for my long run.

11 mile run. then some core work afterwards. burned all the seniors again. Also saw the girls UGA xc team. :)

eddylee wrote:

eddylee wrote:

Monday: 2mile warm-up

3x(mile+4min rest) 5:27, 5:29, 5:28

3(800+2min rest) 2:35(oops),2:38,2:42(more relaxed)

1.5mile CD

Tuesday: 8mile easy 7:15pace

Wednesday: AM:

1mile Warm-up

3mile Tpace+3min rest (17:37)--goal 17:55-1800

2mile Tpace+2min rest (12:00)

1mile Tpace (5:59)

1mile cool down

PM:

4miles easy

Thursday: AM: 5miles easy

PM: 3miles + strides

Friday: pre-meet: 5miles easy +6x30seconds strides on grass

Saturday: mile Wup(would have done more, but woke up too late)

5k- 16:45 1st place on moderate couse

3mile cooldown

Total: 7.1

Nice intervals xc kid! I think i;ll try something similiar this coming week...This sunday was a day of rest. Gotta love rest days. I just feel overtaken by supercompensation, ha ha ha

XC kid wrote:

Today: 3 miles warmup, 24x200m on the track, then 3 miles cooldown. The 200s were 32-33 secs for the first few and gradually got faster, finishing in 28-29 secs for the last ones. Recovery between pieces was 100m slow jog.

Tomorrow: I think I'll go bandit the BAA half marathon for my long run.

EXPERIMENT:

1 hour aerobic run for time ONLY, I kept the pulse @

120-132BPM, had to slow down significantly on the hills to keep it .

First time I tried that... very interesting in that I had no idea how far I ran, deliberately. It was the first time I ran while monitoring my pulse. I wasn't all busted-down & exhausted when I finished. Hmmmmmmmm.

... plus I found a development to run through with NO traffic (Huzzah!), I never ran down through that area before. Maybe there's a few things to be said for running by minutes not miles?

No weddings today, so 105' in the woods. Very quiet on Sunday morning. Just me, the birds, and the deer. Sweet.

congrats, eddylee

A brisk 40 minutes today as the weather was cool and damp. More like fall.

45:00 steady run.

It was coolish and drizzy. Perfect weather. Unlike the poor Chi-town marathoners. Yikes, hope everyone's OK and that no one SUED.

45 minutes today. Nice and cool with light rain toward the end.