The muscle spasm that knocked me out of commission last week hung around longer than I would’ve liked, but I think it is finally 100% gone. And I finally made it over 20 miles for the week, but I put strength training on pause as I was afraid it would re-aggravate the muscle. Monday 2.3 […]
Sleeping is dangerous: weekly rundown
So everything was going great until Wednesday, when I woke up with my neck/upper back feeling stiff and sore. Not really painful, just feeling like I slept on it wrong. Then I rolled over in bed that night and something seized up and made everything painful. I took ibuprofen and some topical pain stuff and […]
New views: weekly rundown
The weather is suddenly acting like summer up here, so I’m trying to adjust to the heat. (Heat = in the 70s. Acclimate = I should wake up earlier. It’s all relative.) Other than that, I had a mostly good running week. Tuesday 1 neighborhood mile with Kara plus 2 by myself. Wednesday Two laps […]
Chasing the snow line: weekly rundown
This week I more or less started Ridge Run training. The race is 11 weeks from Saturday, and I need all those weeks. I have a (very) rough outline for training, which I’m planning to post Wednesday hopefully. Here’s what “week 0” looked like. Monday 3.1 road miles with Kara. Tuesday Lower body strength workout. […]
speeding up/slowing down/summer race news
I’d like to say I haven’t posted in several weeks because the end of the semester was busy. Which it was, of course, but the more proximate cause was actually insomnia. I normally have a couple weeks of insomnia every spring (because spring is the worst), but this year a couple weeks stretched into a […]
Weekly run down: 3/25-31
No creative title. No creative intro. Just jumping right into the recap this week. Monday Rest day. Tuesday 3 mile run, ending at the “gym” for strength training. It had been almost 3 weeks since the last time I was in the gym, so I scaled back my workout to avoid getting too sore…still pretty […]
I’m melting/Trees are terrifying
After our massive snow dump a few weeks ago, we are already well into spring meltdown mode. This is what the streets in my neighborhood looked like last weekend: The week before last I did all my running (a total of 14 miles) around town in these less-than-delightful conditions. Thankfully, last week was spring break, […]
Moving forward: weekly wrap
My running mileage is gradually increasing, but other workouts met an unexpected setback this week. Monday Rest day. Tuesday Strength workout and 2.5 mile run. Wednesday I set out for 3ish miles and decided along the way to make it 4. Thursday I woke up to a notification that the roof of a gym at […]
Snow days…or not: weekly wrap
Every inch of snow piled on our patio furniture here fell over the past week. (And then a few more inches – I took the photo Friday morning.) We don’t get the things-are-cancelled type of snow day, though. So it was business/running as (mostly) usual. Monday Rest day, technically, but I did a restorative yoga […]
2 weeks of wrap
A small confession about last week’s lack of wrap: I was in the middle of a book series, and I….kept reading. In my defense, weekday binge reading would have been problematic. Considering my last WW title was “suspiciously productive”, maybe this one should have been “suspiciously unproductive”. Anyway! Last we talked about running, my goal […]