I had a reasonable 12-week plan mapped out for this race, but then stuff happened, so now I’m scrambling to fit the most important bits of training into the next 8 weeks. The most important bits, for me, are 1) it’s steep and technical; 2) it will probably take me around 8 hours to finish, […]
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Back in action: weekly rundown
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 […]