Herding_Cats
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Things are.......going?
On Monday I did manage to get my 6mi trail run in (it felt better than I expected it to?) and tried out a new trail for it. While it was nice to change things up, it has significantly less hills (as in nearly none) so it won't really be super useful for my current needs. This trail has a ~2mi loop on one side of the road and ~4-8mi of trails on a loop on the other side of the road (with a few spots where you can cut off some mileage.) The shorter side runs down to a river, so that's where the downhill and then uphill are. The longer loop is basically all flat. This is a local fat tire bike trail so it's very easy to follow, and there are plenty of signs to keep you on the path when you get into one of the fields where there are also old logging-access roads crossing things. I was tired at the end, but felt better than expected on my first successfully-completed B2B trail long runs.
Tuesday: rest day. And shopping with DD for the last-minute food items for our fathers day group camping trip.
Wednesday: was supposed to be 4mi but ended up being only 2 because those Novablasts just are not going to work for me. I gave them to DS2 to try out because he needs a pair of long-run/recovery-run shoes for this summer. If he doesn't like them they're getting exchanged for something else. Seriously, my legs hurt so much from these.
Thursday: 4hrs 45min refereeing girls basketball. The basketball was bad. And then I had to zip home to shower and change and head to the campground for the weekend.
Friday: 4mi running. We camp at this campground nearly every fathers day weekend, and I've figured out the routes I like for it. It's pretty easy to get down the highway to a much less trafficked road to get some miles in. Unfortunately for me, I figured out shortly after turning off the (very busy) highway that this side road was semi-recently "chip and sealed" which means there is a lot of small, loose rocks on the road. And the speed limit is still 55mph. This also makes the shoulder a little more unreliable for footing. The good thing was that drivers slowed down to pass me (less rocks flying from their tires this way) and it looks like it was completed about a month ago, so a good portion of the loose stuff has cleared. I tried to run the hillier direction, but only ended up with about 220ft of ascent for the run. The hills were less steep, but longer, so I did try to stick to my intervals even on the uphills. This was pretty successful, and while I felt like I was going really slow, my pace was a solid mid-13 using 20/30 intervals.
Saturday: I basically didn't sleep Friday night because of dogs, snoring, wind, thermometer alerts (the dads smoked a brisket overnight), and finally fell asleep at around 4am. We also had 5 graduation parties to attend, so that took up most of the day and I pretty much crashed out at 10pm.
Sunday: packing up from camping, all of the laundry from camping, grocery shopping, feeding and watering all of the plants and animals when we got home. Plus it's fathers day and I don't have a high need to dip out for an hour. I have approximately 13 hours of refereeing to do on Monday and Tuesday (long run substitute!), so I'll be doing that and then trying to get somewhat back on track.
On Monday I did manage to get my 6mi trail run in (it felt better than I expected it to?) and tried out a new trail for it. While it was nice to change things up, it has significantly less hills (as in nearly none) so it won't really be super useful for my current needs. This trail has a ~2mi loop on one side of the road and ~4-8mi of trails on a loop on the other side of the road (with a few spots where you can cut off some mileage.) The shorter side runs down to a river, so that's where the downhill and then uphill are. The longer loop is basically all flat. This is a local fat tire bike trail so it's very easy to follow, and there are plenty of signs to keep you on the path when you get into one of the fields where there are also old logging-access roads crossing things. I was tired at the end, but felt better than expected on my first successfully-completed B2B trail long runs.
Tuesday: rest day. And shopping with DD for the last-minute food items for our fathers day group camping trip.
Wednesday: was supposed to be 4mi but ended up being only 2 because those Novablasts just are not going to work for me. I gave them to DS2 to try out because he needs a pair of long-run/recovery-run shoes for this summer. If he doesn't like them they're getting exchanged for something else. Seriously, my legs hurt so much from these.
Thursday: 4hrs 45min refereeing girls basketball. The basketball was bad. And then I had to zip home to shower and change and head to the campground for the weekend.
Friday: 4mi running. We camp at this campground nearly every fathers day weekend, and I've figured out the routes I like for it. It's pretty easy to get down the highway to a much less trafficked road to get some miles in. Unfortunately for me, I figured out shortly after turning off the (very busy) highway that this side road was semi-recently "chip and sealed" which means there is a lot of small, loose rocks on the road. And the speed limit is still 55mph. This also makes the shoulder a little more unreliable for footing. The good thing was that drivers slowed down to pass me (less rocks flying from their tires this way) and it looks like it was completed about a month ago, so a good portion of the loose stuff has cleared. I tried to run the hillier direction, but only ended up with about 220ft of ascent for the run. The hills were less steep, but longer, so I did try to stick to my intervals even on the uphills. This was pretty successful, and while I felt like I was going really slow, my pace was a solid mid-13 using 20/30 intervals.
Saturday: I basically didn't sleep Friday night because of dogs, snoring, wind, thermometer alerts (the dads smoked a brisket overnight), and finally fell asleep at around 4am. We also had 5 graduation parties to attend, so that took up most of the day and I pretty much crashed out at 10pm.
Sunday: packing up from camping, all of the laundry from camping, grocery shopping, feeding and watering all of the plants and animals when we got home. Plus it's fathers day and I don't have a high need to dip out for an hour. I have approximately 13 hours of refereeing to do on Monday and Tuesday (long run substitute!), so I'll be doing that and then trying to get somewhat back on track.
