I'm sailor peg And I've lost my leg A climbing up the topsails --Woody Guthrie
and that is a big deal. YAY ME!!!!
55 min and change. Faded a bit over the end of it and I am hungry hungry hungry
LOVE fly to free, those 75s were my favorite thing today.
3 x 600 on 8:30 desc
8 x 75 on 1:20 as 50 back/25 breast 8 x 75 on 1:10 as 25 fly /50 free 8 x 100 IM on 1:45 200 free 8 x 100 free on 1:30 200 IM 8 x 75 on 1:20 as 25 fly/50 back 8 x 75 on 1:10 as 25 breast/50 free
500 c/d even 100s breast
Congratulations, Alyie. Great news!
I need to think of how I want to celebrate :-)
Right foot is feeling sore which provides a good opportunity to work on upper body weights and abs today.
I think I either shouldn't have eaten that lentil soup a few hours before my run yesterday or I got a little bit of that stomach bug going around. Now that I think about it it's probably a bug because my stomach can handle anything. All I know is I almost blew chunks during the last bit of my run yesterday and my stomach is rock solid. Then I spent most of the next few hours after the run chunking it up. BLAH.
Morning came around and I was better but still feeling pretty crappy. By the time I got to the top of Seven bridges Matt H had about 100 meters on me and Brian who'd been biking got to see and hear me suffer good. Although I did tell him that Matt would pay tomorrow going up seven bridges, heehee. I got my 8 miles in and what is usually an easy 53-55 minute run turned into close to 59 minutes of pure will.
Stomach is still a little tender so I'm guessing I had a bug. Matt's in for a treat tomorrow.
...on the bike to give the slight swelling in my right knee some time to recede.
Enjoyed today's pace, even on wheels. Some bike trips on the carriage roads with Judson might as well be workouts for me when he's doing hill cycles.
But it's not just my legs and Judson's stomach that get sore. Rear tire on my mountain bike (which was brand new just a few years ago, umm, well, maybe 10 years ago) is so shredded up that I had to have Lid, my mechanic, line the inside with duct tape before I could ride yesterday afternoon.
I'm confident that it's innovations like duct tape that will insulate us this time from the ravages of October 1929. I mean, back then when your bike tire wore out you pretty much had to just feed it to your chickens, and then you had to eat eggs that for weeks tasted like rubber.
Hope we're beyond all that now.
along the damp edges of the riva'. It was raining until I put my running shoes on. Told my running partner that we have good karma. My cranky knees feel better after the run, but the first mile is down-right sore. Nice to run after taking a few days off to baby the knees while I was in FL trying to fix all my parents problems ... like that's going to happen. Oh, ya, it rained the 4 days I was in FL ... so much for karma.
Keep running!
The wee bit of rain felt good and even that was gone early in the run. Thanks for the good company, Sara.
Judson, hope you feel better pronto. Same wishes for your knee, Brian. Kudos to your mechanic on that McGyver solution to your bike tire. Got to see Karen, Vanessa, Matt F., and new members John & Lisa Helm, both of whom are getting ready for the MDI marathon.
Alyie, good job on hitting 1 year fracture-free. I bet you can make it two.
Life is good in the woods.
You may have seen them or met them earlier on the trails, training for the MDI marathon. It is great to have you both as members of Team Eden, now 153 members and growing. Enjoy your taper & we will be cheering for you out there.
I have a sneaky suspicion we met last week at Head of the Harbor while you were out to lunch and I was working. It's great to have you here in Eden! (I love it when people come to the restaurant and we end up talking about running!)
so I ran ~ 20 min yesterday with the First Striders to see how things are after not running for over 2 monhths. It was probably a bit more than I should have done, but how did I know the First Striders were coming along so fast...
anyway, today my knee is fine, various parts of my leg are sore, but not much. makes me think I did wrench my whole leg back when. Maybe I'll try walk/run Witch Hole tomorrow and see how that goes.
anyone out there done this kind of 'come back' after not running for a couple of months? I'm still in good cadio shape with cycling and swimming,
the "bee" thing mean?
On coming back from injury: frequency and consistency over duration. In other words, if you look at 60 min of running for the week... better to do 6 x 10 min runs than 3 x 20 min runs. Then add minutes. When I've gotten back to running after s-f-x it's frustrating because you're in GREAT cardio shape and you can't get your legs to turn over fast enough to get your HR up at all... or at least that's what it feels like to me. The aerobic fitness is there but all the ligaments, tendon, bone has to adapt/remodel again to the pounding stress that is absent in cycling and swimming. Thus the idea of stressing them a little bit each day rather than a LOT all at once but less frequently. Hope that helps.
...outlasted 'the elephant's instep'
i find it better to just go to races and skip training it just makes a bunch of dirty laundry!!!! can anyone use a pair of Nike men's 9 1/2 trail shoes Stephen has a pair that only have few miles on them from the year he broke his collar bone and he has out grown them by a couple of sizes
John and Lisa. And best of luck with your training/taper for MDI.
A few miles today of running and rowing.
Good to see Judy and Lou last night at First Strides.
Missing their usual 4th, 5th, & 6th place runners, this afternoon the Tiger girls got edged out for the win for the first time this season.
Maggie, Stephanie, and Nora each did their jobs, taking the top three spots. But the Brewer home team filled the next five places while the next Emerson singlets finished back in 15th and 16th place.
But the Tigers will be back in full force for their championship meet next Wednesday.
how the Tigers did. Sounds like a great showing, even with missing their 4th-6th place girls. They have really been something!
on the treadmill at the Y. Not much time, it was raining, I had to be in Bar Harbor anyway, blah, blah, blah...
Welcome John and Lisa. I'll be there on the 19th too!!!!!!!!!
I got out around twilight and ran slightly faster than my half marathon pace (whatever that is). It was a beautiful smooth run in the wind, rain and blackness.
I haven't decided whether to run my half marathon on Sunday or not. I'm not sure I can race like I ran tonight for the last two or three miles. I would rather run a mediocre 13.1 miles without the 1:00 am departure, six hours of driving and $50 registration fee for the privilege.
It boils down to whether or not I'm fit enough to run as well as I'd like to and whether I'll hurt myself if I try. I'll try not to get a stress fracture or eat lentils (I run on coffee and sugar dounuts! :) and hopefully that will prevent much unpleasantness.
1. I'll go. 2. I'll run a slow time. 3. I'll have a GREAT time! 4. I'm much more likely to hurt myself playing rugby.
Welcome to Eden, John and Lisa!
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