Ran a 10k in June (3 Viewers)

[parasaurolophus]

I am now in week 5 of the intermediate hal higdon half-marathon plan for my April 5th half. Sunday's run left me pretty drained. The two plans I used last year were both beginner plans and only had me running 4 days a week. This has me doing 5. I feel like I can notice a difference in my legs feeling dead, but I am not sure how much of that is from running in snow and slush.

Sunday was 7 miles in snow/ice/slush that started at about 12 degrees and sunny but quickly turned into grey and windy and 5 degrees with wind chill somewhere very south of zero. I misjudged what to wear and went with very lightweight clothes and gloves. At about mile 4 my hands were freezing. My eyelashes were coated with ice. My nose was completely plugged not sure if it was because it was frozen or just so stuffed up or both. My lips were cracked. The tip of my annyong errr I mean penis was even freezing cold.

Took me hours to finally feel warm again. I am ready for this pile of #### winter to be over.

Loved reading your race reports MAC and BnB.

 

[Ned]

Race Report – Dirty Love 10K

Official time – one hour two minutes eleven seconds, 13th overall and 2nd in my age group. I never thought I’d be happy with a 10K time this high, but…given the conditions (and after talking with the others afterwards), I couldn’t be happier. It was excruciating. As those that regularly do half marathon’s told me, this was indescribably harder than any of those they’ve ever done. But it was a freaking blast. And I can’t wait to do it again.

That sounds awesome! Except for the snow and cold part, of course. Glad you embraced the conditions out there and gave it a great race. Congrats!

Even that sounds awesome. In the way most of our harder events or training are awesome. Mac, you should be proud.

That's badass stuff.

 

[worrierking]

Nice Job MAC! Again, an example of the fact that many of you guys are participating in an entirely different activity than I am. I can't get my mind to grasp a 10k in deep snow.

 

[BassNBrew]

Race Report – Dirty Love 10K

Official time – one hour two minutes eleven seconds, 13th overall and 2nd in my age group. I never thought I’d be happy with a 10K time this high, but…given the conditions (and after talking with the others afterwards), I couldn’t be happier. It was excruciating. As those that regularly do half marathon’s told me, this was indescribably harder than any of those they’ve ever done. But it was a freaking blast. And I can’t wait to do it again.

That sounds awesome! Except for the snow and cold part, of course. Glad you embraced the conditions out there and gave it a great race. Congrats!

Even that sounds awesome. In the way most of our harder events or training are awesome. Mac, you should be proud.

That's badass stuff.

Yup, totally badass. The video was funny. Looked like a herd of wild animals. Was is a camera on a mount or someone hanging out there. I'm thinking the former and would have been so tempted to sidestep it at the last moment and let the train behind plow into it. I couldn't help but laugh at the guy who came by a minute later who must have been late to the start.

 

[ChiefD]

I am now in week 5 of the intermediate hal higdon half-marathon plan for my April 5th half. Sunday's run left me pretty drained. The two plans I used last year were both beginner plans and only had me running 4 days a week. This has me doing 5. I feel like I can notice a difference in my legs feeling dead, but I am not sure how much of that is from running in snow and slush.

Sunday was 7 miles in snow/ice/slush that started at about 12 degrees and sunny but quickly turned into grey and windy and 5 degrees with wind chill somewhere very south of zero. I misjudged what to wear and went with very lightweight clothes and gloves. At about mile 4 my hands were freezing. My eyelashes were coated with ice. My nose was completely plugged not sure if it was because it was frozen or just so stuffed up or both. My lips were cracked. The tip of my annyong errr I mean penis was even freezing cold.

Took me hours to finally feel warm again. I am ready for this pile of #### winter to be over.

Loved reading your race reports MAC and BnB.

I'm kind of in the exact same boat as you. My half is on April 13th, so I'm in week 4 of the Higdon plan. I decided to do the advanced plan this time, so I'm running 6 days a week. And I'm running in similar weather as you, so I feel your pain.

One thing that has helped me a ton this time is following everyone's advice in this thread about running slower. All of my long runs so far have been at a really slow pace, and I've also taken that approach with some of my shorter ones during the week. I can honestly say my legs feel a lot better this time around than any other 1/2 I've trained for, and I've used the Higdon plans for the other two I have run.

 

[2Young2BBald]

Race Report – Dirty Love 10K

Official time – one hour two minutes eleven seconds, 13th overall and 2nd in my age group. I never thought I’d be happy with a 10K time this high, but…given the conditions (and after talking with the others afterwards), I couldn’t be happier. It was excruciating. As those that regularly do half marathon’s told me, this was indescribably harder than any of those they’ve ever done. But it was a freaking blast. And I can’t wait to do it again.

That sounds awesome! Except for the snow and cold part, of course. Glad you embraced the conditions out there and gave it a great race. Congrats!

Even that sounds awesome. In the way most of our harder events or training are awesome. Mac, you should be proud.

That's badass stuff.

Agreed and I am jealous.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Duck, I got a 6 miler in on Sunday as well, thankfully I bought a hat that same day as it saved my eyes while running in the rain. Lung and body wise I was feeling good and contemplating going for more but my feet were soggy and I had a bad feeling that if I kept going I was headed towards blisterville. I'm taking a solid 2 day break from all things running related and trying to let my body heal before I start indoor soccer Wednesday night, I'm hoping this little break will get me back down to my 815 mile over 7 miles as right now I've slowed down to a 945 pace. Between the weather and lingering health issues I'm ready to start finding my rythem before the marin 1/2 marathon in April.

 

[tri-man 47]

I am now in week 5 of the intermediate hal higdon half-marathon plan for my April 5th half. Sunday's run left me pretty drained. The two plans I used last year were both beginner plans and only had me running 4 days a week. This has me doing 5. I feel like I can notice a difference in my legs feeling dead, but I am not sure how much of that is from running in snow and slush.

Sunday was 7 miles in snow/ice/slush that started at about 12 degrees and sunny but quickly turned into grey and windy and 5 degrees with wind chill somewhere very south of zero. I misjudged what to wear and went with very lightweight clothes and gloves. At about mile 4 my hands were freezing. My eyelashes were coated with ice. My nose was completely plugged not sure if it was because it was frozen or just so stuffed up or both. My lips were cracked. The tip of my annyong errr I mean penis was even freezing cold.

Took me hours to finally feel warm again. I am ready for this pile of #### winter to be over.

Loved reading your race reports MAC and BnB.

The back-off weeks (every third, as I recall) will help. Take a two day break if desired to freshen up the legs. The good news is that if you can run on tired legs - and run through this ##### of a winter (record cold and snow) - your April race will feel really good! And yeah, I hate those runs when I don't wear enough layers and have to fight the cold the whole way.

 

[Sand]

Race Report – Dirty Love 10K

Official time – one hour two minutes eleven seconds, 13th overall and 2nd in my age group. I never thought I’d be happy with a 10K time this high, but…given the conditions (and after talking with the others afterwards), I couldn’t be happier. It was excruciating. As those that regularly do half marathon’s told me, this was indescribably harder than any of those they’ve ever done. But it was a freaking blast. And I can’t wait to do it again.

That sounds awesome! Except for the snow and cold part, of course. Glad you embraced the conditions out there and gave it a great race. Congrats!

Even that sounds awesome. In the way most of our harder events or training are awesome. Mac, you should be proud.

That's badass stuff.

Agreed and I am jealous.

 

[MAC_32]

Race Report – Dirty Love 10K

Official time – one hour two minutes eleven seconds, 13th overall and 2nd in my age group. I never thought I’d be happy with a 10K time this high, but…given the conditions (and after talking with the others afterwards), I couldn’t be happier. It was excruciating. As those that regularly do half marathon’s told me, this was indescribably harder than any of those they’ve ever done. But it was a freaking blast. And I can’t wait to do it again.

That sounds awesome! Except for the snow and cold part, of course. Glad you embraced the conditions out there and gave it a great race. Congrats!

Even that sounds awesome. In the way most of our harder events or training are awesome. Mac, you should be proud.

That's badass stuff.

Yup, totally badass. The video was funny. Looked like a herd of wild animals. Was is a camera on a mount or someone hanging out there. I'm thinking the former and would have been so tempted to sidestep it at the last moment and let the train behind plow into it. I couldn't help but laugh at the guy who came by a minute later who must have been late to the start.

Laughed about that too.

99% sure it was mounted inside of an orange cone. There were 3 placed in the field to guide us towards the bottleneck, so I'm guessing this was the first one.

 

[Harris]

I don't know if this has been discussed in here of late, but is there any good reason as to why races prices have increased so drastically over the last 5 years? A lot of races used to have very small increases, if any, over the years, and now the prices of races seems to be skyrocketing everywhere.

Is this just a response to demand? Greedy organizers? The costs can't be that much higher to justify the types of increases we're seeing.

Just curious as to thoughts on the subject....

 

[2Young2BBald]

I don't know if this has been discussed in here of late, but is there any good reason as to why races prices have increased so drastically over the last 5 years? A lot of races used to have very small increases, if any, over the years, and now the prices of races seems to be skyrocketing everywhere.

Is this just a response to demand? Greedy organizers? The costs can't be that much higher to justify the types of increases we're seeing.

Just curious as to thoughts on the subject....

Gotta be demand. The 3 little 5Ks I did each year, going back 7 or 8 years now draw 7,000, 15,000+ and 5,000 runners.

 

[BassNBrew]

I don't know if this has been discussed in here of late, but is there any good reason as to why races prices have increased so drastically over the last 5 years? A lot of races used to have very small increases, if any, over the years, and now the prices of races seems to be skyrocketing everywhere.

Is this just a response to demand? Greedy organizers? The costs can't be that much higher to justify the types of increases we're seeing.

Just curious as to thoughts on the subject....

I haven't been running in the mass events, but here's what I've got on the calendar and the costs...

Mt. Mitchell 40 - $95; roughly 8 hours of fun, Northface pullover that retails around $50, high end beanie, stickers saying you're cool to put on vehicle, after race meal,

Massenutten 100 - $185; roughly 30-36 hours of fun, Patagonia shirt, pre-race meal, aid stations where they cooks burgers and bacon, buckle if you finish

Ga Death Race 68 - $105; roughly 20-24 hr of fun, bbq dinner, aid station with bacon, award if you finish

All are limited to 200 or less.

It will be interesting to see if the ultra community sticks to it's roots or goes down the path of these race companies. A lot of these race companies/organizers are trying to make event planning a full time job. I think you see the big jumps once they have enough events to turn if from a hobby to a career.

 

[BassNBrew]

I don't know if this has been discussed in here of late, but is there any good reason as to why races prices have increased so drastically over the last 5 years? A lot of races used to have very small increases, if any, over the years, and now the prices of races seems to be skyrocketing everywhere.

Is this just a response to demand? Greedy organizers? The costs can't be that much higher to justify the types of increases we're seeing.

Just curious as to thoughts on the subject....

Gotta be demand. The 3 little 5Ks I did each year, going back 7 or 8 years now draw 7,000, 15,000+ and 5,000 runners.

$10 profit a pop on 15k is a nice payday.

 

[Sand]

Ga Death Race 68 - $105; roughly 20-24 hr of fun, bbq dinner, aid station with bacon, award if you finish

Can't believe I suckered you into this one!

Also, SteveC - your next workout. Let us know how it goes.

 

[BassNBrew]

Ga Death Race 68 - $105; roughly 20-24 hr of fun, bbq dinner, aid station with bacon, award if you finish

Can't believe I suckered you into this one!

Also, I think I found this somewhere other than in here. SteveC - your next workout. Let us know how it goes.

I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I do need a prep event for Massenutten. It falls on a perfect weekend where the kids actually have nothing going on and about 9 weeks out from the A event. I should be able to recover for a couple of weeks and then have four weeks to do some serious training for Massenutten before a taper. may work a du in with my son 2 weeks out.

They're calling for 3 to 12 inches of snow here starting tomorrow afternoon. We'll be shutdown for 2 days so I plan to run in the snow like the bad asses up north.

 

[FUBAR]

I don't know if this has been discussed in here of late, but is there any good reason as to why races prices have increased so drastically over the last 5 years? A lot of races used to have very small increases, if any, over the years, and now the prices of races seems to be skyrocketing everywhere.

Is this just a response to demand? Greedy organizers? The costs can't be that much higher to justify the types of increases we're seeing.

Just curious as to thoughts on the subject....

I haven't been running in the mass events, but here's what I've got on the calendar and the costs...

Mt. Mitchell 40 - $95; roughly 8 hours of fun, Northface pullover that retails around $50, high end beanie, stickers saying you're cool to put on vehicle, after race meal,

Massenutten 100 - $185; roughly 30-36 hours of fun, Patagonia shirt, pre-race meal, aid stations where they cooks burgers and bacon, buckle if you finish

Ga Death Race 68 - $105; roughly 20-24 hr of fun, bbq dinner, aid station with bacon, award if you finish

All are limited to 200 or less.

It will be interesting to see if the ultra community sticks to it's roots or goes down the path of these race companies. A lot of these race companies/organizers are trying to make event planning a full time job. I think you see the big jumps once they have enough events to turn if from a hobby to a career.

price is my biggest hangup with triathlon. Always more expensive than the running races. Sure, more goes into hosting them, but some of these prices are outlandish.

 

[mr. furley]

hi

still running training for the 2014 Cellcom half-marathon in May. just did my first night of body weight workouts. trying to trim slightlly overweight furley in to best shape of his life furley.

 

[bentley]

The Austin half is Sunday. Did an easy 8 last Sundayasy 4 today and easy 4 Thursday. Feeling about as good as possible right now. Studying the map for water stations, fueling plan etc. Also giving up alcohol for the week.

Advice for how I should eat this week?

 

[FUBAR]

3,000 yards in the pool today. Felt awesome.

We're supposed to get hit with 3-6" snow tomorrow, but I hope to get a trail run in before it hits.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

The Austin half is Sunday. Did an easy 8 last Sundayasy 4 today and easy 4 Thursday. Feeling about as good as possible right now. Studying the map for water stations, fueling plan etc. Also giving up alcohol for the week.

Advice for how I should eat this week?

Best of luck on Sunday.

Just eat normally until, I don't know, Friday I guess. Do exercise some portion control if you're scaling back you're running this week, but no need to alter your diet otherwise. On Saturday you're going to want to go with something lean and carby. Don't eat four bowls of pasta. Just a normal meal with the dial turned to lean protein and carbs. Avoid excess fiber. Honestly, screwing with your diet right before a race sort of violates the "nothing new on race day" rule. If a particular meal has worked for you in previous races or before long runs, just stick with that.

Race day should be whatever you normally eat for breakfast on long run days.

 

[MAC_32]

The Austin half is Sunday. Did an easy 8 last Sundayasy 4 today and easy 4 Thursday. Feeling about as good as possible right now. Studying the map for water stations, fueling plan etc. Also giving up alcohol for the week.

Advice for how I should eat this week?

don't change your diet too much, body won't adjust in time. Avoid processed foods and a little extra salt would be good.

 

[SFBayDuck]

The Austin half is Sunday. Did an easy 8 last Sundayasy 4 today and easy 4 Thursday. Feeling about as good as possible right now. Studying the map for water stations, fueling plan etc. Also giving up alcohol for the week.

Advice for how I should eat this week?

Best of luck on Sunday.

Just eat normally until, I don't know, Friday I guess. Do exercise some portion control if you're scaling back you're running this week, but no need to alter your diet otherwise. On Saturday you're going to want to go with something lean and carby. Don't eat four bowls of pasta. Just a normal meal with the dial turned to lean protein and carbs. Avoid excess fiber. Honestly, screwing with your diet right before a race sort of violates the "nothing new on race day" rule. If a particular meal has worked for you in previous races or before long runs, just stick with that.

Race day should be whatever you normally eat for breakfast on long run days.

This. Assuming you eat a diet that isn't too extreme in any direction, do what you normally do. I have specific foods I like to eat the night before a race (salmon and rice), but the only thing I really tend to be strict with is limiting the fiber the night before, and if it's an early morning start (as many ultras are) I try to eat dinner a little earlier than normal to be sure I can move everything through my system the next morning earlier than usual.

 

[MAC_32]

Good tip on working out the morning #### in time.

 

[FUBAR]

3,000 yards in the pool today. Felt awesome.

4 hours later and I'm fickin' sore. 1,000 of it was pull with paddles - that might have been a mistake in the short term.

 

[ChiefD]

8 x 400 interval run tonight. 18 degrees....Grrrr.....again....

Warming trend starting tomorrow, so that's a good sign. Really tired of dodging snow and ice patches.

 

[Sand]

3,000 yards in the pool today. Felt awesome.

4 hours later and I'm fickin' sore. 1,000 of it was pull with paddles - that might have been a mistake in the short term.

I'm laughing with you. Really.

 

[bentley]

Thanks guys. My normal Saturday night meal is an enchilada plate and a half dozen or so beers so I will probably avoid that. Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

 

[BassNBrew]

Intervals with the pro today.

4 min / 3 min / 2 / 1 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 , 2 min easy jog in between

Went pretty good with the following paces

7'57

7'22

6'54

6'09

6'15

7'51

7'34

7'36

Obviously went to hard in 4 and 5 and totally blew up in 5. 8 was encouraging and quite painful.

With warm up and cool down ended up just north of 5.5 miles.

 

[SFBayDuck]

I just signed up for the North Face 50 Mile Championship, which takes place in December on the home trails of Marin. It's one of the most competitive 50 milers in the country every year, and for the past couple of years I've just wanted to be a part of the event but haven't been able to make it happen (it sells out fairly early). It's a cool thing this about MUT races - schmucks like me get to compete in the exact same event as the world's best. It's not like I can walk into an open gym and play some hoops with LeBron and KD, yet I can stand at a trail head and then take off to cover the same course (taking 3-4 times longer, of course) on the same day as the elites. And more often than not, many of them are hanging out cheering on the back-of-the-packers like myself.

I just hope I'm recovered enough from my first 100M three months earlier to do this....good news is there are 50K and marathon options I can drop down to if needed.

 

[BassNBrew]

I just signed up for the North Face 50 Mile Championship, which takes place in December on the home trails of Marin. It's one of the most competitive 50 milers in the country every year, and for the past couple of years I've just wanted to be a part of the event but haven't been able to make it happen (it sells out fairly early). It's a cool thing this about MUT races - schmucks like me get to compete in the exact same event as the world's best. It's not like I can walk into an open gym and play some hoops with LeBron and KD, yet I can stand at a trail head and then take off to cover the same course (taking 3-4 times longer, of course) on the same day as the elites. And more often than not, many of them are hanging out cheering on the back-of-the-packers like myself.

I just hope I'm recovered enough from my first 100M three months earlier to do this....good news is there are 50K and marathon options I can drop down to if needed.

Recovered my behind. More likely you'll have a huge event.

 

[BassNBrew]

What a difference a week makes. Last week in bike class I blew right thru lacate threshold during the first tempo set and never recover. This week is was on...

Warmup - Was supposed to be a tempo effort at 70% and I barely got into zone 1.

Set 1 - 20 minute interval consisting of four equal ramps for 80% to 90% of estimate hr power 284 watts. After 10 mins I was still in the zone 2/3 borderline so I ramped up the hr power baseline to 300. Spent the remianing 10 mins most in upper zone 3 and some stints in lower zone 4.

3 min active recovery

Set 2 - 10 min at reduced rpm to represent climbing at a 90% effort. Bumped the baseline to 330 watts. Spent the first half in lower zone 4 before drifting to upper zone 4. Never crossed lacate threashold.

5 min active recovery

Set 3 - 3 x 3 min at 100% w/ 1 min recovery in between. Did the first interval at 330 watts and didn't cross lacate threshold until the last few second. Made it 1'30" into the second before my legs had enough. Dropped to 300 watts for the last one and made it thru.

3 min active recovery

Set 4 - 3 x 2 min at 110% w/ 1 min recovery. Did the first one at 310 with little problem. Increased to 320 for the next and completed it. For the last one I went to 330 and finished the last 30 secs with an rpm acceleration that had me over 400 watts.

Hadn't had enough so I got off the bike and did 6 sets of step ups with 30 lbs in each hand for 10/9/8/7/6/5 reps both left and right at each rep level.

I either had an uncommonly good day or royally screwed up the trainer calibration procedure.

 

[BassNBrew]

The bike workout was in the morning. We're getting a once in a decade snow event so I decided to be a badass like all you northern guys. Good thing is there was no traffic so I was able to run in the ruts the cars had left. Knocked out 5.5 miles in zone two at roughly a 10'30" pace. Given the icy conditions, this may have been a break thru run. I didn't check the pace as I ran so I was expecting something closer to 12 min pace. Finished with a 10 min speed walk.

All totalled I got in 3 hours of activity today.

 

[Ned]

The bike workout was in the morning. We're getting a once in a decade snow event so I decided to be a badass like all you northern guys. Good thing is there was no traffic so I was able to run in the ruts the cars had left. Knocked out 5.5 miles in zone two at roughly a 10'30" pace. Given the icy conditions, this may have been a break thru run. I didn't check the pace as I ran so I was expecting something closer to 12 min pace. Finished with a 10 min speed walk.

All totalled I got in 3 hours of activity today.

Great to see you back!

This snow has me considering something I swore I'd never do....... Buy a treadmill. Seems like every time I get some momentum going in training, we get another big snow storm. We have a good 10" from last night with another 3-6 coming today.

 

[parasaurolophus]

Not sure what happened yesterday, but my right ### cheek, err I mean glute is sure sore. Havent missed a workout yet of this training schedule, but I may have to skip tonight.

 

[jb1020]

Is it against the rules to mention I've started P90x3 in this thread? If I remember correctly Ned was a P90x guy, and thats where I started. I saw the infomercial the other day and ever workout was 30 minutes. Most of my mid week runs are 45 minutes or less and relatively slow and easy. Trying to build up a solid base heading into the summer.

I've always tried to get some sort of strength training in (mainly at the gym at lunch) but it never pans out. On top of that my wife has started running, which I'm excited about, but it sure cuts into my morning run times (we can't both leave the house with 2 kids asleep!)

I'm typically up at 5am anyways to run so a 30 minute DVD seems doable.

2 days in, I like the new format, definitely sore. Haven't run the past 2 days though....sleet and icy roads are not my friends.

 

[koby925]

Had a wisdom tooth removed last week so between that and the baby my training has been really poor the last couple weeks. Only 32.5 miles so far for February. And now we have snow which completely disables the Raleigh area so can't even get to the closed gym's treadmill.

 

[sho nuff]

Bronchitis still sucks.

It has taken me quite a bit to come back from this...still a tiny bit wheezy and think my lung capacity was down.

Energy levels low during my leg workout yesterday.

Today's 4 miles were ok (ended up on the TM so I could watch Olympic hockey and didn't want to be 2 miles away from the house and start a coughing fit).

HR climbed quicker (expected that a bit with the layoff and lack of running lately plus the illness affecting me). But the day after squats...I will take today's run as my legs were feeling surprisingly good.

Hope to get back into form soon.

 

[Ned]

Is it against the rules to mention I've started P90x3 in this thread? If I remember correctly Ned was a P90x guy, and thats where I started. I saw the infomercial the other day and ever workout was 30 minutes. Most of my mid week runs are 45 minutes or less and relatively slow and easy. Trying to build up a solid base heading into the summer.

I've always tried to get some sort of strength training in (mainly at the gym at lunch) but it never pans out. On top of that my wife has started running, which I'm excited about, but it sure cuts into my morning run times (we can't both leave the house with 2 kids asleep!)

I'm typically up at 5am anyways to run so a 30 minute DVD seems doable.

2 days in, I like the new format, definitely sore. Haven't run the past 2 days though....sleet and icy roads are not my friends.

Awesome! I still will do a disc here and there when the mood hits me.

pigskin was a religious P90x'er in here for a looooong time.

 

[Sand]

I just signed up for the North Face 50 Mile Championship, which takes place in December on the home trails of Marin. It's one of the most competitive 50 milers in the country every year, and for the past couple of years I've just wanted to be a part of the event but haven't been able to make it happen (it sells out fairly early). It's a cool thing this about MUT races - schmucks like me get to compete in the exact same event as the world's best. It's not like I can walk into an open gym and play some hoops with LeBron and KD, yet I can stand at a trail head and then take off to cover the same course (taking 3-4 times longer, of course) on the same day as the elites. And more often than not, many of them are hanging out cheering on the back-of-the-packers like myself.

I just hope I'm recovered enough from my first 100M three months earlier to do this....good news is there are 50K and marathon options I can drop down to if needed.

Looks awesome.

All totalled I got in 3 hours of activity today.

Serious work being done in here.

Is it against the rules to mention I've started P90x3 in this thread?

May have to retract that previous statement.

 

[tri-man 47]

Not sure what happened yesterday, but my right ### cheek, err I mean glute is sure sore. Havent missed a workout yet of this training schedule, but I may have to skip tonight.

I've had that happen ..usually after a big lunge workout (or after a lunge layoff). It'll go away, but it is odd to have a true pain in the ###.

 

[Sand]

Not sure what happened yesterday, but my right ### cheek, err I mean glute is sure sore. Havent missed a workout yet of this training schedule, but I may have to skip tonight.

I've had that happen ..usually after a big lunge workout (or after a lunge layoff). It'll go away, but it is odd to have a true pain in the ###.

The dangers of lunging...

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Update:

Haven't updated much in here. I have been holding about an average of an hour a day this year of good work. More important, my body has finally decided to follow my brain in the decision to race light this season - weight has gone from 181 in early January to 173.5 this morning. Dive, baby, dive!

 

[FUBAR]

Is it against the rules to mention I've started P90x3 in this thread?

we'd rather hear about your meeting a really nice girl and having some really nice...

 

[ChiefD]

Weather finally breaking here. Should be in the 40's today. Should be a most pleasant tempo run tonight.

 

[2Young2BBald]

Is it against the rules to mention I've started P90x3 in this thread?

we'd rather hear about your meeting a really nice girl and having some really nice...

Lunges?

 

[FUBAR]

Class was cancelled for snow today, so the plan was to cycle and then hit the pool.

Originally, I was going to watch Dexter (I'm in season 1) and take it moderately easy. But instead, I did the Revolver from Sufferfest. http://www.thesufferfest.com/video-sufferfests/details-revolver/

Easy enough, 1 minute intervals.

HOLY ####. .

At least I achieved a new max bike heart rate.

 

[MAC_32]

I decided today it is easier to run on an icy surface (not to be confused with ice) than snow. MUCH easier. Like 3+ mins/mile and 10x less mentally exhausting easier.

 

[koby925]

Icy stuff (which is what we have here) is maybe faster than snow, but it aggravates my hip issues. So unfortunately I think I have to choose losing a couple days of running outweighing potential injury.

 

[SFBayDuck]

5 miler along the beach in San Diego this morning, and now I'm sitting on a brewpub deck overlooking the ocean having lunch in 80 degree weather after a client meeting. I gotta visit here more often.

I know, I know :finger:

 

[koby925]

5 miler along the beach in San Diego this morning, and now I'm sitting on a brewpub deck overlooking the ocean having lunch in 80 degree weather after a client meeting. I gotta visit here more often.

I know, I know :finger:

Love San Diego. Have a couple siblings out there. In addition to being awesome, it may be the best all year climate for outdoor activities - especially running, biking. Warm but not oppressive heat, no humidity, doesn't get too cold and just the right mixture of hills and flat ground to mix things up.