Mileage Reporting 40th week 2013
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Wow, I appreciate the "likes" for my first run in awhile. This is why I come here - to suppliment my often lackadaisical motivation.
Did 'nuther 1.5 miles barefoot at lunch today. One of my former lunchtime run locations is now off my list. They are in proccess of replacing the grass football fields with fake turf surrounded by 1/4" gravel. Running on the turf was worse than the rock - the sun heats it ot 100+ degrees (on a perfect 80-degree day).
Did 'nuther 1.5 miles barefoot at lunch today. One of my former lunchtime run locations is now off my list. They are in proccess of replacing the grass football fields with fake turf surrounded by 1/4" gravel. Running on the turf was worse than the rock - the sun heats it ot 100+ degrees (on a perfect 80-degree day).
NickW
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Well, no running for a few days, unless you count the little sprints yesterday with my son when we were playing. He is such a good runner and I am extremely jealous. It seems so effortless for him and he may be a much better runner than me given some time to grow up. My goal is to try to run at least 2-3 days a week right now so I can hopefully maintain my fitness level until we start getting into a better routine and more sleep with the new little one. Everything is going well so far, but am really learning guests can wipe you out more than the lack of sleep at night. We had friend over the other day and she did not leave until 11:30pm or so, and with a pretty much guarenteed wake up time of 7am because of our toddler, this was a bit rough. Our routine has been to go to bed shortly after our toddler when we feed our baby girl, around 9pm, so getting to bed so late really was super difficult. Oh well, it's good to see people and we had a pretty good time.
Great 5 mile run at 5:00am., 66 deg., 73%rh.. Saw 1 rabbit. excellent clear sky lots of stars for being in the city.
Just did my first trail run on Wildwood since these storms have kicked in and WOW! A 5 mile partial OBSTACLE COURSE! Even better! Mikey was with me so I used him as a spiderweb shield and debris impaler -he's pretty good at both! 
early morning: 3.5 mi run, a few weights after
evening: some bf walking on paved trail in evening. Early fall colors. Caterpillars. Light hearted conversation. Beautiful.
evening: some bf walking on paved trail in evening. Early fall colors. Caterpillars. Light hearted conversation. Beautiful.
Yesterday morning I stepped out into a crystal clear sky with a lazy lay down sliver moon. Clear mornings don't reflect any light and the dark street are pitch black that I travel. No worries. The rout was familiar at 5 am. No need for extra light, we just go by feel in some spots. Nice cool 61 degrees with 80 % humidity. Was slated for a 3 but did 5 and felt great even though this was a recovery run. No owls rabbis or any other things that I could see. Last evening I did notice that my energy dropped off a cliff at about 7 so hit the hay early. I think I'm conditioning my creeky body and mind to really enjoy the longer runs. Committed to a half so slowly have to up the mileage. My goal is to finish ...... Not on a gurney Dec 8th.
My feet and legs feel amazingly good.
My feet and legs feel amazingly good.
Monday afternoon, more run-commuting and a really good lower-body strength-training session. I went up to 275 for the first time in over a month on the deadlifts, then spent a lot of time pyramiding down. I had been keeping the deadlifts at 225 while I was pushing the distance on my long runs. I try not to push more than one variable/facet of my training at a time. I also got the squats back up to 175. Both the deadlifts and the squats kind of scare me. They're both more complicated movements and carry more injury-risk than most exercises, but I think I'm going to try pushing them a bit for the next month or two and see what happens. Best 'core' exercises in existence, in my opinion. Like Abide, I really like the big, heavy, fundamental lifts. Seem to give the most benefit. Plus I'm lazy so I like the low mental effort involved in low-rep exercises; I reach my physical limit before my mental limit.
Tuesday morning, my feet are still a little bit achy from Saturday's long run, and my legs a little bit stiff from the lifting, so I decided to put off doing a proper run this morning and just run-commuted. I'll keep stretching, rolling, and massaging throughout the day and hopefully get in a nice afternoon hills and/or track workout. It's been a while.
Tuesday morning, my feet are still a little bit achy from Saturday's long run, and my legs a little bit stiff from the lifting, so I decided to put off doing a proper run this morning and just run-commuted. I'll keep stretching, rolling, and massaging throughout the day and hopefully get in a nice afternoon hills and/or track workout. It's been a while.
Ran around 2 and 3/4 miles yesterday after work. I probably went faster than I should have, but the legs felt good so I let them take over. Probably also a good sign that I sure left plenty in the tank with Sunday's 5K race as I had intended to do.
Funny enough how I threw in the idea of eating pickled herring in last week's mileage thread and the veering off to discussion about diet. I'm currently rereading The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb with its story about Roger Bannister, John Landy, and Wes Santee trying to chase down the 4-minute mile, and in one chapter it's mentioned how during one stretch of his life, Bannister often had some pickled herring as part of breakfast. So there you go, eat pickled herring, run a 4-minute mile.
Funny enough how I threw in the idea of eating pickled herring in last week's mileage thread and the veering off to discussion about diet. I'm currently rereading The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb with its story about Roger Bannister, John Landy, and Wes Santee trying to chase down the 4-minute mile, and in one chapter it's mentioned how during one stretch of his life, Bannister often had some pickled herring as part of breakfast. So there you go, eat pickled herring, run a 4-minute mile.
I'm actually eating herring in wine sauce right now as part of my brunch. Right after finishing off a bowl of yoghurt and berries. The herring-barefoot connection was latent, but it seems so obvious now. Can a four-minute mile be far behind?
Just did my first trail run on Wildwood since these storms have kicked in and WOW! A 5 mile partial OBSTACLE COURSE! Even better! Mikey was with me so I used him as a spiderweb shield and debris impaler -he's pretty good at both!
yet you still almost impaled yourself into that tree.
so yup, what she said ^ except i was bf. jen ran after drinking a hard cider. i finished my run by drinking a hard cider. better choice if you ask me.
i'd rather not run a 4m/m if eating that is a requirement. then again i'll try eating almost anything at least once.
careful Lee. deadlifts and squats are all that Maffetone recommends for weightlifting. don't get into maf training!
Too late! I've been running mostly aerobic pace for the last several weeks. No heart rate monitor though, so I guess it doesn't count.careful Lee. deadlifts and squats are all that Maffetone recommends for weightlifting. don't get into maf training!
It would be funny to use Maffetone as a guide to strength-training though. Kind of like using Joe Weider as a guide to endurance training. Unfortunately, I don't have a pressing need to build a stone wall at the moment. And you'll be disappointed to learn that I did 'artifical' exercises like calf raises, leg extensions, and hamstring curls along with my squats and deadlifts. I guess I blew it
.Also interesting in Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile are the times he mentions how Bannister and Santee had some barefoot running sometimes in their training. I don't think Bannister's was regular, it just occurred some when he was doing runs in the countryside. Santee's, IIRC, was sprints on the infield with the Kansas University track team. John Landy had custom made shoes that were soft soles with spikes.
Some day I have to take a serious crack at learning Finnish and seeing if I can get some Finnish-language that are bios about Paavo Nurmi or talk about how the Finnish runners in the early 20th century trained.
Some day I have to take a serious crack at learning Finnish and seeing if I can get some Finnish-language that are bios about Paavo Nurmi or talk about how the Finnish runners in the early 20th century trained.
Steve Magness also mentions somewhere on his site (http://www.scienceofrunning.com/) how high-performance runners sometimes incorporate barefoot running into their training.
Magness is good in general for explaining that barefoot running form and good shod running form are the same thing. Elite shod runners use barefoot running for exactly that reason, because it can often force one into good running form more effectively that this or that coaching cue.
morning: 4 miles, out and back past the golf course, down the windy road around the lake, my usual route. This morning was especially nice. Sliver of a moon, so the roads were very dark (I wear a headlamp on my waist that I flash on for cars as they pass, but otherwise don't use lights, and often only see one or two cars in a run).
No owl sounds, unfortunately, but a few howling dogs in the distance, and crickets. No birds up yet.
In the low spots, there was a mist, in the higher spots, there was a gentle breeze. Bright stars above. Occasional leaves rustling, falling from the trees. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning, but I was so glad I did. Soothed me. Ok, autumn is nice.
lunch: 1hr 25 min swim. Good solid effort. Long intervals of freestyle to start, lots of kicking and back work to finish. Replacing calories and then some right now.
No owl sounds, unfortunately, but a few howling dogs in the distance, and crickets. No birds up yet.
In the low spots, there was a mist, in the higher spots, there was a gentle breeze. Bright stars above. Occasional leaves rustling, falling from the trees. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning, but I was so glad I did. Soothed me. Ok, autumn is nice.
lunch: 1hr 25 min swim. Good solid effort. Long intervals of freestyle to start, lots of kicking and back work to finish. Replacing calories and then some right now.
Sunday: 30 minutes in pool, relaxed
Monday: fit in 60 minutes on spin bike
Today: am having a very hard time deciding what to do. I 'want' to run, but I really can't tell if it will make me feel better physically or if I am just so exhausted that I need to take it easy. I know from experience that this sort of stuff wears a body down physically, even if it seems like it should be just mental/emotional. I don't think I will be going in to the hospital today, but it may be my only break from that for a few days.
Monday: fit in 60 minutes on spin bike
Today: am having a very hard time deciding what to do. I 'want' to run, but I really can't tell if it will make me feel better physically or if I am just so exhausted that I need to take it easy. I know from experience that this sort of stuff wears a body down physically, even if it seems like it should be just mental/emotional. I don't think I will be going in to the hospital today, but it may be my only break from that for a few days.
2 labor-some miles yesterday, wasn't feeling it so cut run short. Today was 3 miles on a very windy day. Wind was between 50-75 kmh., sure made for interesting running. Running downwind it seemed like I was putting out 4 minute miles, going into the wind it felt like I was running up Mount Everest.
NickW
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7.37 miles today. Avg 10:10 pace. Felt really good today and could have ran a bit further but was feeling really guilty for taking some time for myself and leaving the kids with the wife. She tells me I'm silly for thanking her so much for letting me get out for a good long run. Guess I just feel selfish for needing that me time. Anyhow, got a mix of windy, rain, and sunshine today which made the run much more interesting. Checked out a new route today and ended up quite a bit outside of town. Not a route I would run if I had the stroller with me. Can't wait till I can run out that way again and explore a bit further next time.
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