Mileage Reporting 38th week 2013

Scratch · Sep 17, 2013

Ah, Portuguese. The Portuguese wikipedia calls them beija-flor but also notes that they can be called colibri.

Google translate tells me that beija in Portuguese means kisses. I can see that. Hummingbirds look like they kiss flowers. You weren't kissing flowers on that run, were you, Sinjorino Kolibra or Sinjorino Flor-Kisanto?

Barefoot Dama · Sep 17, 2013

Scratch said:
Ah, Portuguese. The Portuguese wikipedia calls them beija-flor but also notes that they can be called colibri.

Google translate tells me that beija in Portuguese means kisses. I can see that. Hummingbirds look like they kiss flowers. You weren't kissing flowers on that run, were you, Sinjorino Kolibra?

No, I wasn't but I did stop and smell the roses afterwards though

Bare Lee · Sep 17, 2013

Barefoot Dama said:
Yea, colibri is the name we use in Mexico for hummingbird but Lee is using portuguese that's why it sounds different.

Yes, I explained somewhere else that 'Beija-flor' is Portuguese for hummingbird. The hummingbird is a pretty popular motif/symbol in Brazilian culture, including this heartbreaking song:

Barefoot Dama said:
Lee, I too am a recreational runner but love the long runs so I do monkey around with fuel if needed.
And you will too-at some point

Not likely. When I read ultra marathoner reports, especially Jason's, it doesn't sound like it's for me, at least not at this point in life. I may change my mind, but for the moment, if it's a distance that hurts, or requires trying to eat some highly processed crap like a Gu bar or something while running, I'm not interested. I don't even like to drink water while I'm running. I prefer to fill up the camelpack beforehand, by guzzling massive amounts of water until I have to pee every 15 minutes. Then I know I'm good to go. That's what I did on Sunday, but I think I was still a bit low from having allowed myself to become dehydrated on Saturday. I read somewhere that it takes 12-24 hours to fully rehydrate. The stuff you drink right before or during an activity will not be effectively absorbed in time to help 100%. Anyway, that's been my experience. Plus it never quite seems like a real run if you have to stop. Of course, I'm just explaining my own sensibility/experience, I'm not trying to tell anyone else how to run.

Barefoot Dama · Sep 17, 2013

@Lee-Oh, I am not interested on ultra running for me a 50K is long enough, heck a marathon is long enough.

Bare Lee · Sep 17, 2013

Barefoot Dama said:
@Lee-Oh, I am not interested on ultra running for me a 50K is long enough, heck a marathon is long enough.

When it stops being fun and easy is long enough for me! If I can run a marathon or an ultra that way, I will! I've never understood the 'just finish' mentality.

Basically I'm lazy, so I don't like having to run with much mental effort. When my legs tell me to stop, I find it's easier to obey them than override their command. Plus, they're probably right. (That's the beauty of fartleks over set interval training.) If I were ever to write (yet )a(nother) barefoot book, I'd call it the "Lazy Man's Guide to Barefoot Fitness."

jldeleon · Sep 17, 2013

Just did a 2.75 run, around the waterfront, barefoot - it was a perfect temperature. Too bad it wasn't raining!!!

jldeleon · Sep 17, 2013

You people up there talking about ultras, and such, don't forget most ultras are on trails and trail running is SO MUCH FUN compared to pavement running. FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN!!!

happysongbird · Sep 17, 2013

Monday - spin bike for 70 minutes with hubby in evening. I was thinking about swimming, but he really wanted to feed me. I try to be cooperative when I can

Tuesday morning - 6.2 miles at comfortable pace. May be the longest and most continuous on that rough of pavement, which was great until about mile 5.5. Then, my feet were starting to complain. Legs felt great though.

My scenery seems the antithesis of Lee's. It was fun to stop a second for a photo here and there. Didn't catch the quails on camera. Or the huge produce trucks that occasionally went by because I was in fear of my life. Much of it is a bike route of mine, but I've never run that direction because it is rougher. For sale photo for those thinking about moving west.

Hair is a bad length for running right now, and it's just too cool in the morning to get it wet before a run, so I may have scared a few people. Everyone is always saying just be myself...

Bare Lee · Sep 17, 2013

happysongbird said:
Monday - spin bike for 70 minutes with hubby in evening. I was thinking about swimming, but he really wanted to feed me. I try to be cooperative when I can

Tuesday morning - 6.2 miles at comfortable pace. May be the longest and most continuous on that rough of pavement, which was great until about mile 5.5. Then, my feet were starting to complain. Legs felt great though.

My scenery seems the antithesis of Lee's. It was fun to stop a second for a photo here and there. Didn't catch the quails on camera. Or the huge produce trucks that occasionally went by because I was in fear of my life. Much of it is a bike route of mine, but I've never run that direction because it is rougher. For sale photo for those thinking about moving west.
Hair is a bad length for running right now, and it's just too cool in the morning to get it wet before a run, so I may have scared a few people. Everyone is always saying just be myself...
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Yah, when I talk about moving West, it's for the trails. Those kinds of country roads are no fun to run on, no matter where you are. I remember cycling through Idaho almost 20 years ago, on my way from Lake Louise to Cody. No fun with traffic that close, especially the logging trucks and Winnebagos. We have a lot of mild chipseal bike paths around here though, similar to the surface in your photo. I'm sure you'd get used to it after a while.

Keep the photos coming! It's great to get a visual on everyone's running environment. I'll try to do one or two more routes, then I'll have pretty much covered the possibilities around here.

NickW · Sep 17, 2013

5 miles at a leisurely 10:52 pace. Could have run further but needed to get home due to time restraints.

Line Kolbe · Sep 17, 2013

Today I did a 6 km morning walk in the vff, and a little later I went to the gym and did an arm workout and some (surprise.. ) chins and dips

Barefoot Dama · Sep 17, 2013

NickW said:
5 miles at a leisurely 10:52 pace. Could have run further but needed to get home due to time restraints.

Nice!!

migangelo · Sep 17, 2013

monday- sleep, rest, and eat. bit tired and sore to do much more.
tuesday- 3 mile jaunt with body weight exercises. right arm is still sore. the cuts on my feet bothered me a bit.

dutchie53 · Sep 17, 2013

2 easy miles on a windy day.

5t3ph4n13 · Sep 17, 2013

After an entire week off from my sprained knee, I'm back in the game. 3 miles today and no soreness afterwards- yay! I've been using one of those balance/wobble boards at the recommendation of my chiropractor (who is supportive of barefoot running!) to help with my balance for trail running so hopefully I won't fall as much... and if I do, I'm going to practice tucking and rolling because taking a week off sucked!

TD Moose · Sep 17, 2013

I'm tapering. That's what I tell myself. Just four more days until the Surly Trail Loppet Half Marathon. I'm as ready (or ill-prepared) as I will ever be.

I never got out to check out the course. My biggest concern was that there may be gravel on certain stretches. But now, I really don't care. I'll walk if I have to on those parts. Because I've never done a trail race before, anything I do will pretty much be a PR, right? If you don't agree, shhhhh, I don't want to know.

Shoes are not an option. I just haven't bothered to put on a pair for running since, well, I think there was still a little bit of snow on the ground. Toes, meet ground. Ground, meet toes. Ready...set...

happysongbird · Sep 17, 2013

TD Moose said:
I'm tapering. That's what I tell myself. Just four more days until the Surly Trail Loppet Half Marathon. I'm as ready (or ill-prepared) as I will ever be.

I never got out to check out the course. My biggest concern was that there may be gravel on certain stretches. But now, I really don't care. I'll walk if I have to on those parts. Because I've never done a trail race before, anything I do will pretty much be a PR, right? If you don't agree, shhhhh, I don't want to know.

Shoes are not an option. I just haven't bothered to put on a pair for running since, well, I think there was still a little bit of snow on the ground. Toes, meet ground. Ground, meet toes. Ready...set...

With that attitude, you should have a great race!

jldeleon · Sep 17, 2013

40 minutes of water exercises!

Ukerunner · Sep 18, 2013

I didn't run at all last week (nothing bad, just busy), after doing a 7 mile trail run in my new Altra Superiors (not really minimalist, but zero drop). They worked like champs on the rough trail I was on, and didn't give me any muscle pains or anything.

Friday night, I decided to register for a 25k trail race that was Sunday morning. It was on a REALLY rough and muddy jeep road, with both a lot of steep climbing and a descending. I decided that there was no way I was ready to do that even in the Altras, so I used a pair of LaSportivas. It was a great run. The start was just under 8,000 feet above sea level (in Marble, Colorado), and in the first 5.5 miles we climbed to 10,899 feet. Not a lot of running on that stretch for me... It was beautiful, although rainy for a few miles, and I loved it!

I rested yesterday, and then tonight I went out for the local running club's Tuesday night 5k. I run from my house to the start, and then back home afterwards, so it ends up being 3.9 miles. I started off in my Fivefingers, but as soon as I got off the rough busy street and onto the nice smooth bike trail, I took those off and ran the rest of it barefooted. It ended up being 1.35 miles in the Vibrams, and 2.56 barefooted (on concrete and asphalt), at a 9:32 pace, which is pretty good for me. The legs were a little wobbly at the start from the long run on Sunday, but it was fun to see the look of astonishment (and disappointment) on the face of one of the runners this evening when I passed him midway through the run and just kept pulling ahead!

Barefoot Dama · Sep 18, 2013

TD Moose said:
I'm tapering. That's what I tell myself. Just four more days until the Surly Trail Loppet Half Marathon. I'm as ready (or ill-prepared) as I will ever be.

I never got out to check out the course. My biggest concern was that there may be gravel on certain stretches. But now, I really don't care. I'll walk if I have to on those parts. Because I've never done a trail race before, anything I do will pretty much be a PR, right? If you don't agree, shhhhh, I don't want to know.

Shoes are not an option. I just haven't bothered to put on a pair for running since, well, I think there was still a little bit of snow on the ground. Toes, meet ground. Ground, meet toes. Ready...set...

Good luck and don't forget to have fun :barefoot:

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