I think the stars aligned!
Mileage Reporting 15th Week of 2013
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Thats fast! I have a race in the morning and I doubt I could pull that off even for just 10k. I was hoping to be close to that, planned on shooting for a pr, but I'm not feeling that fast after backing off the training the last couple weeks.
So, I did it. 15 miles through lots of sharp rocks (even through Moc3's), wind that worked really hard at keeping me from moving forward, hills (even though dear hubby said it was the flat route....). Fortunately, we were running into the wind for the first half. The sharp rocks and exhaustion kept me under control when it was at my back. I had to walk one steep hill for less than 1/10th of a mile in about mile 13. My legs just gave up. But I was pleasantly surprised to find I could run again after that. I am going to go with "perceived effort" on this one and give myself a high score.
But it was "fun." Mostly because I was running with my honey, but partly because I did it.
But it was "fun." Mostly because I was running with my honey, but partly because I did it.
Have to brag on my 19 year old daughter who won first place for women in the Beat Coach Pete 5K this morning - and she did it BAREFOOT!
(She did just sign up as a member here, but hasn't posted)
She is in the far left in the first photo, just barely showing behind the row of tough guys. You can see one bare foot. Then, she is the runner in the 13th photo in the series, number 258, white t-shirt, black pants w/pink stripe. http://arbiter.photoshelter.com/gallery/Race-day-2013/G0000NGD52ptf4jU/C0000Rhqkc22y_g0
(She did just sign up as a member here, but hasn't posted)She is in the far left in the first photo, just barely showing behind the row of tough guys. You can see one bare foot. Then, she is the runner in the 13th photo in the series, number 258, white t-shirt, black pants w/pink stripe. http://arbiter.photoshelter.com/gallery/Race-day-2013/G0000NGD52ptf4jU/C0000Rhqkc22y_g0
Went on a run today but ended up walking after running only 1.75 miles as my legs were very sore and continued to tighten up. Pretty sure this happened from doing too many leg exercises that my wife found on youtube of a couple of chicks demonstrating some leg exercises to work the butt and leg muscles. We did these exercises together and we are both kinda sore. 
Does that mean the exercises worked or is it just that we are both out of shape or all of the above? Gonna have to take a rest day tomorrow. Did walk about 2.5 miles but my run was disappointing.
Thats a good time DNEchris on the 15 miles! Congrats!
Happysongbird good job on your 15 miles! Did you say you were training for a half marathon this summer? Congrats to your daughter on winning first place in her race.
Does that mean the exercises worked or is it just that we are both out of shape or all of the above? Gonna have to take a rest day tomorrow. Did walk about 2.5 miles but my run was disappointing.Thats a good time DNEchris on the 15 miles! Congrats!
Happysongbird good job on your 15 miles! Did you say you were training for a half marathon this summer? Congrats to your daughter on winning first place in her race.
It doesn't matter how "in shape" a body is, if you do something a little different, you end up with sore muscles!
I am signed up for a half on May 18th. I'm starting to feel like I will at least be able to finish it. Will be trying to do a little speed work over the next couple of weeks....
35 mi bike ride today. Touch of soreness on the right side from the running, but still everything is somewhat workable...
Saturday afternoon
9.7 mi / 15.6 km
34 F / 1 C
29 F / -1.6 C windchill
Tried that new route I’ve been talking about. First I ran a few blocks down to the recreational park where there's a path off a dead end street past the playing field where you can cross the main railroad tracks running through the Twin Cities. That was still covered in snow, and just then a train came by, so I had to wait for 10 minutes. I thought about seeing how long I could stand in the snow, but didn’t want to risk an irreversible numb plunge, so I slipped on my Moc3 backups. I should've run around the park and under the railroad bridge a bit farther on and then doubled back on the road paralleling the tracks on the other side, but it would've taken close to the same amount of time as just waiting there.
Once across the tracks, I took off the Moc3s and got on the U of M campus shuttle bus route, where cars are prohibited. The bike path that runs along the bus route was still snowed over, so I ran on the road. The cold asphalt felt good, and I kind of regretted not going on Thursday's run. I could've just gone up to the fairgrounds and done my back-n-forth route there shod through the slush. Maybe it would've even been dry by then. And after not running for four days, my legs felt a bit heavy.
After a short bit on the bus route I cut due south down the Minneapolis-St. Paul border, then cut into the Minneapolis neighborhood by the UofM football stadium, Prospect Park, and made a beeline for the river up over a pedestrian bridge spanning the main freeway, I-94. The neighborhood's sidewalks were kind of slushy, but I was in a good barefootn' mood, and embraced it.
Once on the River Road’s bike/pedestrian path, I was free from slush, and could pick up the pace a bit, dipping down into the 9:30 mm range. I headed South by Southeast, crossing back into St. Paul briefly and then crossed over Marshall Avenue bridge back into Minneapolis. I stopped to stretch on the bridge’s hand rail and admired the view of the Mississippi River, and the Minneapolis UofM campus which straddles both sides of the river, up on its bluffs, a little further upstream, and then the Downtown Minneapolis skyline beyond that, close to where I intended to cross back over the river on the historic Stone Arch Bridge by St. Anthony Falls. The falls no longer exist, having been replaced by a spillway and locks and dams, but used to be the only major falls on the Upper Mississippi River, and thus the first portage coming up from New Orleans. I think the portage was the initial motive for settlement in the downtown area, and then the spillway/dam’s hydro power gave rise to the flour mills of Minneapolis.
I'll have to bring our camera next time I run this route.
Anyway, after crossing over Marshall Bridge, I got back on the River Road, which descends from the bluff down close to the river’s shore after about a mile and a half. A spattering of fellow joggers were on the path too. One young guy took out his ear buds to tell me how much he admired me as he passed going about 30 seconds per minute faster than me. I gave him my usual line, that BFR just takes a little getting used to.
Indeed. There were two biggish hills on that side, returning back up close to the now tapering bluff, with about a mile of mild chipseal, and a fair amount of wetness. Around 5-6 miles I was starting to tire and my pace went over 10mm. I decided to bail on the longer version of this route, which would've taken me to the Stone Arch Bridge and would have added another couple of miles, and ran back up to the river bluff to cross over an old railroad bridge that has been converted into yet another pedestrian/bike bridge. This one connects the East Bank of the Minneapolis UofM campus with the West Bank. When we were kids we used to come over to both campuses on our stingrays and gawk at all the hippies.
That’s the nice thing about this route, or routes; there are a lot of versions possible once you run the first two miles or so to the river. By car it seems farther away, but because of the short-cut you can take as a runner, by crossing the tracks and using the UofM bus route, you can get to the river from my neighborhood pretty much as the crow flies. Once on the river there’s at least 6-8 route possibilities, of varying distance, most of it through pleasant scenery and along dedicated bike/pedestrian paths.
However, after crossing back over onto the East Bank side, what looked like a dedicated bike path on Google Maps, linking this bridge back to the UofM shuttle bus road a mile or so away, was actually a gravelly road paralleling the still active railroad tracks cutting through campus, an offshoot of the main tracks I had crossed at the beginning of my run. The road was pretty muddy in spots too.
I had been looking for a gravel road nearby to run on, but had more or less given up, so it was a nice find. After extending my temperature range this past (almost) winter, I would like to extend my range of surface types over this year's spring, summer, and fall, so this route’s sections of mild chipseal and gravel will be a good addition to my repertoire. Nonetheless, my feet were still somewhat abraded from last Saturday’s debris-filled run, so it was tough going in spots. By the time I made it back onto the campus bike path near the stadium, my feet were on the verge of tapping out as they started getting numb in the mud, slush, and puddles mixed in with the abrasive gravel and rocks.
Once back on smooth asphalt -- ahhhh -- I was able to pick up the pace again. Towards the end I started to feel my ITB strain a bit, but along the length of it not by the knee, so I decided to risk it and kept running along the bus route until I reached the spot where I had to cross the tracks again. The snow there felt good on my sore soles. Once on the other side of the tracks, back in my cozy neighborhood, I walked the last third of a mile home.
Overall a very satisfying run/adventure. I didn’t go quite as far or fast as I had intended, but the challenging surface conditions made up for it. It’s good to test the ‘barefoot’ side of “barefoot running” once in a while too. I sometimes get too caught up in the ‘running’ part. Still, on Tuesday’s run I’ll definitely be looking for nice, smooth and dry asphalt and a faster paced tempo run. Spice is variety of food.
9.7 mi / 15.6 km
34 F / 1 C
29 F / -1.6 C windchill
Tried that new route I’ve been talking about. First I ran a few blocks down to the recreational park where there's a path off a dead end street past the playing field where you can cross the main railroad tracks running through the Twin Cities. That was still covered in snow, and just then a train came by, so I had to wait for 10 minutes. I thought about seeing how long I could stand in the snow, but didn’t want to risk an irreversible numb plunge, so I slipped on my Moc3 backups. I should've run around the park and under the railroad bridge a bit farther on and then doubled back on the road paralleling the tracks on the other side, but it would've taken close to the same amount of time as just waiting there.
Once across the tracks, I took off the Moc3s and got on the U of M campus shuttle bus route, where cars are prohibited. The bike path that runs along the bus route was still snowed over, so I ran on the road. The cold asphalt felt good, and I kind of regretted not going on Thursday's run. I could've just gone up to the fairgrounds and done my back-n-forth route there shod through the slush. Maybe it would've even been dry by then. And after not running for four days, my legs felt a bit heavy.
After a short bit on the bus route I cut due south down the Minneapolis-St. Paul border, then cut into the Minneapolis neighborhood by the UofM football stadium, Prospect Park, and made a beeline for the river up over a pedestrian bridge spanning the main freeway, I-94. The neighborhood's sidewalks were kind of slushy, but I was in a good barefootn' mood, and embraced it.
Once on the River Road’s bike/pedestrian path, I was free from slush, and could pick up the pace a bit, dipping down into the 9:30 mm range. I headed South by Southeast, crossing back into St. Paul briefly and then crossed over Marshall Avenue bridge back into Minneapolis. I stopped to stretch on the bridge’s hand rail and admired the view of the Mississippi River, and the Minneapolis UofM campus which straddles both sides of the river, up on its bluffs, a little further upstream, and then the Downtown Minneapolis skyline beyond that, close to where I intended to cross back over the river on the historic Stone Arch Bridge by St. Anthony Falls. The falls no longer exist, having been replaced by a spillway and locks and dams, but used to be the only major falls on the Upper Mississippi River, and thus the first portage coming up from New Orleans. I think the portage was the initial motive for settlement in the downtown area, and then the spillway/dam’s hydro power gave rise to the flour mills of Minneapolis.
I'll have to bring our camera next time I run this route.
Anyway, after crossing over Marshall Bridge, I got back on the River Road, which descends from the bluff down close to the river’s shore after about a mile and a half. A spattering of fellow joggers were on the path too. One young guy took out his ear buds to tell me how much he admired me as he passed going about 30 seconds per minute faster than me. I gave him my usual line, that BFR just takes a little getting used to.
Indeed. There were two biggish hills on that side, returning back up close to the now tapering bluff, with about a mile of mild chipseal, and a fair amount of wetness. Around 5-6 miles I was starting to tire and my pace went over 10mm. I decided to bail on the longer version of this route, which would've taken me to the Stone Arch Bridge and would have added another couple of miles, and ran back up to the river bluff to cross over an old railroad bridge that has been converted into yet another pedestrian/bike bridge. This one connects the East Bank of the Minneapolis UofM campus with the West Bank. When we were kids we used to come over to both campuses on our stingrays and gawk at all the hippies.
That’s the nice thing about this route, or routes; there are a lot of versions possible once you run the first two miles or so to the river. By car it seems farther away, but because of the short-cut you can take as a runner, by crossing the tracks and using the UofM bus route, you can get to the river from my neighborhood pretty much as the crow flies. Once on the river there’s at least 6-8 route possibilities, of varying distance, most of it through pleasant scenery and along dedicated bike/pedestrian paths.
However, after crossing back over onto the East Bank side, what looked like a dedicated bike path on Google Maps, linking this bridge back to the UofM shuttle bus road a mile or so away, was actually a gravelly road paralleling the still active railroad tracks cutting through campus, an offshoot of the main tracks I had crossed at the beginning of my run. The road was pretty muddy in spots too.
I had been looking for a gravel road nearby to run on, but had more or less given up, so it was a nice find. After extending my temperature range this past (almost) winter, I would like to extend my range of surface types over this year's spring, summer, and fall, so this route’s sections of mild chipseal and gravel will be a good addition to my repertoire. Nonetheless, my feet were still somewhat abraded from last Saturday’s debris-filled run, so it was tough going in spots. By the time I made it back onto the campus bike path near the stadium, my feet were on the verge of tapping out as they started getting numb in the mud, slush, and puddles mixed in with the abrasive gravel and rocks.
Once back on smooth asphalt -- ahhhh -- I was able to pick up the pace again. Towards the end I started to feel my ITB strain a bit, but along the length of it not by the knee, so I decided to risk it and kept running along the bus route until I reached the spot where I had to cross the tracks again. The snow there felt good on my sore soles. Once on the other side of the tracks, back in my cozy neighborhood, I walked the last third of a mile home.
Overall a very satisfying run/adventure. I didn’t go quite as far or fast as I had intended, but the challenging surface conditions made up for it. It’s good to test the ‘barefoot’ side of “barefoot running” once in a while too. I sometimes get too caught up in the ‘running’ part. Still, on Tuesday’s run I’ll definitely be looking for nice, smooth and dry asphalt and a faster paced tempo run. Spice is variety of food.
Great job Laura! That's a long ways to go over rough surfaces.So, I did it. 15 miles through lots of sharp rocks (even through Moc3's), wind that worked really hard at keeping me from moving forward, hills (even though dear hubby said it was the flat route....). Fortunately, we were running into the wind for the first half. The sharp rocks and exhaustion kept me under control when it was at my back. I had to walk one steep hill for less than 1/10th of a mile in about mile 13. My legs just gave up. But I was pleasantly surprised to find I could run again after that. I am going to go with "perceived effort" on this one and give myself a high score.
Amazing pace Chris! That's my 880 pace. You ran 30 times farther! If you have time, a few more sentences describing the run would be appreciated.
Yah, I can't believe the Vikes didn't offer a similar deal before cutting him. But Spielman seems to know what he's doing, so he must have a plan. He's probably eying a corner with one of our two picks in the first round.
I usually try to do my butt/leg/hip exercises a full 48 hours before my next run, otherwise I feel sluggish too. Butt they're well worth doing. I think they help support your running quite a bit. Strengthens your hips, glutes and the muscles around your knee, which helps prevent runner's injuries.Pretty sure this happened from doing too many leg exercises that my wife found on youtube of a couple of chicks demonstrating some leg exercises to work the butt and leg muscles. We did these exercises together and we are both kinda sore.
It was just a run!
I'd gone out with no expectations for pace but had had a relatively light week (2 days with no running) and just found that I was pretty relaxed and moving easily. There were plenty of people in Central Park and I soon found myself chasing some of them and somehow there was always the energy to pass one more. Relaxation is key.
That's it - end of story!
I meant more the scenery, thinking perhaps you were running around the boroughs or along the Hudson or something. A description of Central Park would've been interesting too, but I guess it's pretty well-known through movies, TV, and other media, so you might wonder why I'd want to know how that felt. I'm just interested in all the different kinds of runs/running possible, and how folks experience them. I miss Sid's trail reports for example. I can see how you thought I was talking about pace though, as I started out the comment marveling at that.
Sometimes Central Park is just a treadmill! Yesterday, and today, though Spring was fully launched. Early last week the buds were barely visible on the trees now the Cherries and Magnolia are in full bloom and some of the other trees are starting to show hints of green. Some tulips are out and a few of the daffodils are done.
I think we are done with slush puddles for the next few months!
I think we are done with slush puddles for the next few months!
Didn't run today after deciding to take a bit of a break from running after tight muscles experienced during yesterdays run. Wife and I walked 3.2 miles on the local trail it was very windy again today. I went barefoot. It's noon now and have quite an appetite worked up. Looks like next weeks forecast is winter again Tuesday thru Thursday. This time I'm gonna run in the VFF's if temps are not warm enough for a BF run. Planning a run tomorrow after work as temps are to be 50F but you guessed it windy once more. Maybe its time to look into some wind generators!
This time I'm gonna run in the VFF's if temps are not warm enough for a BF run. Planning a run tomorrow after work as temps are to be 50F but you guessed it windy once more. Maybe its time to look into some wind generators!
I am just reporting that I can walk today. Yesterday evening it was looking kind of iffy. Had to manually lift my right leg to get into bed! Have to do some digging and fence building today, but I'm thinking that it will be good for me to keep moving some today anyway...
Have to do some digging and fence building today, but I'm thinking that it will be good for me to keep moving some today anyway...
Ha! While I didn't do 15 miles yesterday, I am feeling a bit stiff too, with somewhat sensitive soles, and so rethinking my seven-days-a-week routine now that my Saturday long runs are hovering around the 10-mile mark. I think I'll consolidate my ST workouts from four to three days a week and take Sundays off, especially now that picnic season is almost upon us, and there'll be some yard work to do around here too (although not nearly involved as yours!), as soon as the snow stops falling and melts for good (we had another dusting today). Or perhaps I'll just have a four-day-a-week st schedule and a three-day-a-week st schedule and play it by ear. Basically I could shift from my current FRONT-BACK-TOP-BOTTOM st schedule to a TOP-MIDDLE-BOTTOM st schedule when I want a day off. Just need to move things around a bit.I am just reporting that I can walk today. Yesterday evening it was looking kind of iffy. Had to manually lift my right leg to get into bed!
One thing's for sure, right now I don't feel at all motivated to go down to the garage and do deadlifts and squats, although I'd probably get into it after a bit. Seems more reasonable to spend a little extra time playing with the kids and let the legs loosen up that way, like you're doing with your yard work.
Relative rest, sure, hence my 48-hour rest rule, but I'm not so sure about absolute rest. I tend to be fine, even thrive, working out an hour a day with no rest days as long as I alternate activities/body zones. But now that the Saturday long runs are over 90 minutes, approaching two hours, I find myself more inclined to take an absolute rest the next day, on Sunday, just as God the Almighty intended, and just relax with low-effort activities. On the days when I don't feel so inclined, I still have my old four-day-a-week st routine to fall back on. Today, for example, I could easily do my 'Front' st workout, doing stuff for the chest and upper arms, without interfering with my legs' recovery from yesterday's run. Just don't feel like it.
I'm taking it pretty slow. It's just with my husband traveling so much and his shoulder surgery in about a week, I'm having to do things by myself that he usually helps with.... am finding myself more hungry today.
Saturday: no turkish get-ups today, just a quarter polish sit downs:
my behind, on the floor of my office, face in front of a computer. Until very late. Up to go to the bathroom, make tea, go to printer room.
my behind, on the floor of my office, face in front of a computer. Until very late. Up to go to the bathroom, make tea, go to printer room.
Ok so I got to feeling a bit guilty since I only walked today with no run and decided to ride the stationary bike. Rode 10 hard miles at quick pace. Whew!
