Mileage Reporting 50th Week of 2014

Larry

Barefooters
Sep 13, 2012
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Tuesday morning, gentle 5km recovery run on the beach after my big trail run on the weekend. I was able to convince myself that I was loosening up and feeling better during the run, so I guess that's something. I'm still a little sore though. One thing I find strange is that now that I'm getting a little older, I don't get sore the day after a big run - it usually takes 2 days before it hits. No idea why.

Meanwhile, we're getting unusually high numbers of blue bottle jellyfish on the beach down here - they have a nasty sting (so I'm told) so I'm paying a bit more attention to where I'm putting my feet.
 
6.7 miles yesterday, 5 today which began with a 15 minute warmup run, then onto 8x8s hill sprints, 2 skip drills, 1 buttkick, and a set of 100ups. Then a run with 10x20s fast strides early on, then easy running to get home.
 
Odd 3 mile run 43 deg. f. 100%rh, Dense Fog Advisory! hard to even see the street lights. kinda cool, I did look up and barely make out the moon.
 
No walking. It's hard not to walk, I like to walk.
Walking is OK, isn't it? . . . once you get over the preconceptions of what constitutes a run. I don't do anything near your distances, but I've been out of, and getting back into, running shape so often this last year that I've become quite used to walking whenever I need it. The nice thing about walking breaks, is that I find postrun recovery is much faster than when I run the same distance continuously. My legs don't feel nearly as tight afterwards. The downside is it takes a little longer to cover the same distance.

Anyway, . . . walking, walking . . . oh yes, this relates to my current situation because I had a slight muscle pull in my hip/glute area Monday after doing Deadlifts without a proper warm-up, after sitting all day, so today when I finally motivated for an early morning run, my hip kept bothering me, so I had to stop to walk and stretch pretty frequently, at 26F/21F windchill. Tomorrow I'm bringing the Sockwas so I can walk without worry while I rehab this annoying pull.

Good luck on the Marathon Sunday Runlite01!
 
13.7km/8.5mi, very windy run this morning. I noticed that my adductors and lower core muscles are getting sore again. That is happening only when running on hard surface (Sunday's trail was fine). I still need to work on that form, me thinks.....
 
Well I'll do my weekly summation early as I doubt I'll have anything to report the rest of the week - got called in to cover a shift today through Sunday and being dayshift I wont have any good time to run.

Tuesday - An easy slow 3.7mi. Legs were real tight from getting called into work Monday with little sleep.
Wednesday - Was going to try to do a longer run but still tight calf and tendons in right foot. Plus it was windy. Got 2mi in, I think around 22ºF with wind chill. At my turn around spot when I turned directly into the wind at its peak my eyes watered so bad I couldn't really see for the first 1/4 mile.
Thursday - Finally a nice sunny day. Was great to see the sun. Wanted to get out earlier in the day but had so much going on I didn't hit the trail until almost 4pm, by which time the sun was already disappearing into the haze of the westerns sky. Still a nice sunset run, and got 10mi in. 32ºF/23ºFwc. The trail was somewhat protected from wind, and I did fine barefoot and with just my lite clothes, but by the end after the sun had set my hands got really cold even with the gloves on (and I had actually had them off 30 minutes prior).

So only a bit over 15mi this week, but at least its something. Slowly working my way back up. Would like to be back to normal mileage before the snow sets in and limits my running but this achilles problem doesn't seem to be going away entirely.

Good luck Runlite, and have fun!

Tuesday morning, gentle 5km recovery run on the beach after my big trail run on the weekend. I was able to convince myself that I was loosening up and feeling better during the run, so I guess that's something. I'm still a little sore though. One thing I find strange is that now that I'm getting a little older, I don't get sore the day after a big run - it usually takes 2 days before it hits. No idea why.
Well I do get sore the day after, but for me the soreness peaks 2-3 days after, and always been that way.
 
Bottled the Winter Challenge at 2 deg C this morning. My feet hurt just walking to the car! 5K run around Tredegar House parkrun route in VFF sandals instead. 56 seconds short of a PB :( I don't think I'm a Winter person :)
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15km/9.3mi today, and I went to my favourite local park for a nice and flat trail run (hopefully my adductors/core will be fine).

Result of last week's 10km trail, 1h13min, I finished 3rd in my age category (only 5 in my category, but shush ! :rolleyes:)

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