Herding_Cats
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This week was severely derailed by wildfire smoke, and the horrifically low energy I have at this point in my cycle. Yaaaaaay. July training ended with a whimper, which was frustrating, but I'm not too worried about it.
Sunday: rest day post-22 miler. And honestly, I felt completely normal. Shockingly normal. No twinges or "wow my legs are tired from all those miles." It was weird. But YAY, adaptations?!
Monday: also a rest day. Look at me. I'm crushing it here.
Tuesday: 5mi easy + 4x30sec strides. I sort of did this. Since I've been generally not great about the speedwork part of this training plan, I tweaked this to 3mi easy (and then I ate dinner) plus 2mi at 6% incline on the treadmill.
Wednesday:2mi easy + 6x (3min fast with 1min recovery) + 2mi easy I didn't do anything. Our AQI was hovering around just above and below 180, and I woke up with 2 lymph nodes in my neck (near my shoulder) so inflamed that they hurt.
Thursday:5mi easy Same issues at Wednesday with the smoke and my body's reaction to it. I've been fine all summer, when the levels have been more like 130ish and lower. Everyone else in my house has been coughing for a couple of weeks, and while I'm not coughing, I definitely have upper respiratory congestion, and some loose mucous in my chest. This totally stinks because we got a break in the high temperatures and it was in the 50s in the morning.
Friday: rest day *sigh* but didn't manage to get myself together enough to do a "make up" run from Wed/Thur.
Saturday: 10mi with 30min moderate in the middle. I met up with my friend who is also registered for the 50k and we ran this together. We were on the trail by 6:50am, and someone else went out before us, so we didn't have to clear the cobwebs! It's the little things. It was a glorious 48 degrees on my drive to the trailhead, which meant NO MOSQUITOS and NO DEER FLIES. At least for the first 90min or so. We kinda managed the 30min of moderate, but I managed to center up a couple of tree roots on my arch during this portion and that really makes my ankle angry, so it was more like 20min of moderate. I could really feel that it had been a 3-day gap since my last run, and that I'd had an extra rest day because my legs were pretty sluggish the whole time. But also DD had the absolute worst night of sleep she's had in years and I got less than 4 hours of sleep, no more than 1 hour at a time. So I was using all of the caffeinated fuels.
While my friend has a lot of hiking experience, he has never really run a "trail-y trail" so I shared my very specific wisdom of "You have to pay attention to your feet the entire time." He fell once and nearly fell 3 other tim I'm pretty sure he also has not practiced fueling or fueling strategy/timing yet, which makes me nervous for him. He has the overall fitness to finish the race within the time limit, but if he bonks it'll get pretty ugly.
Earlier in the week I had asked Naomeri for her pacing spreadsheet she used for MW. It ended up being a "number" file (iphone/apple products app) so I exported it to excel and then opened it in google sheets so that, theoretically DH can track me as I update the sheet with mile splits. Of course when I practiced this on Saturday it wouldn’t take the entry past the first mile. So I’ll have to fiddle with it a little more.
My friend and I have tentatively scheduled our 16mi for next Saturday together, but then he realized it’s the weekend of the marathon relay and he’s on a team. One member can’t make it and he asked if I was interested in filling the spot. For this relay it’s 4 people running 5mi, and then a 5th person's final leg is a 10k. A lot of XC teams use this as a team building thing and the kids sometimes wear costumes or silly outfits...usually the boys. One year they all had the BOA "jorts" and a a yellow construction safety vest for the runner, and the non-runners had hardhats on. Another year a boys team all had tacky tropical-print "suits" that THEY RAN IN. There are usually quite a few adult teams as well. Apparently Hansens used to send a couple of teams up for it, but they haven’t done that in the 5 years I’ve been around it with my kids running in it. So not I have to decide if I want to participate in that as part of my long run, and if that works for DH as far as his schedule and having someone available to care for DD. The relay would take up most of the day, so we definitely need to make sure we have all of the things factored into it before I say yes. (Please note that I would NOT race this. It would def. be an easy-to-moderate run for me.)
Sunday: rest day post-22 miler. And honestly, I felt completely normal. Shockingly normal. No twinges or "wow my legs are tired from all those miles." It was weird. But YAY, adaptations?!
Monday: also a rest day. Look at me. I'm crushing it here.
Tuesday: 5mi easy + 4x30sec strides. I sort of did this. Since I've been generally not great about the speedwork part of this training plan, I tweaked this to 3mi easy (and then I ate dinner) plus 2mi at 6% incline on the treadmill.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: rest day *sigh* but didn't manage to get myself together enough to do a "make up" run from Wed/Thur.
Saturday: 10mi with 30min moderate in the middle. I met up with my friend who is also registered for the 50k and we ran this together. We were on the trail by 6:50am, and someone else went out before us, so we didn't have to clear the cobwebs! It's the little things. It was a glorious 48 degrees on my drive to the trailhead, which meant NO MOSQUITOS and NO DEER FLIES. At least for the first 90min or so. We kinda managed the 30min of moderate, but I managed to center up a couple of tree roots on my arch during this portion and that really makes my ankle angry, so it was more like 20min of moderate. I could really feel that it had been a 3-day gap since my last run, and that I'd had an extra rest day because my legs were pretty sluggish the whole time. But also DD had the absolute worst night of sleep she's had in years and I got less than 4 hours of sleep, no more than 1 hour at a time. So I was using all of the caffeinated fuels.
While my friend has a lot of hiking experience, he has never really run a "trail-y trail" so I shared my very specific wisdom of "You have to pay attention to your feet the entire time." He fell once and nearly fell 3 other tim I'm pretty sure he also has not practiced fueling or fueling strategy/timing yet, which makes me nervous for him. He has the overall fitness to finish the race within the time limit, but if he bonks it'll get pretty ugly.
Earlier in the week I had asked Naomeri for her pacing spreadsheet she used for MW. It ended up being a "number" file (iphone/apple products app) so I exported it to excel and then opened it in google sheets so that, theoretically DH can track me as I update the sheet with mile splits. Of course when I practiced this on Saturday it wouldn’t take the entry past the first mile. So I’ll have to fiddle with it a little more.
My friend and I have tentatively scheduled our 16mi for next Saturday together, but then he realized it’s the weekend of the marathon relay and he’s on a team. One member can’t make it and he asked if I was interested in filling the spot. For this relay it’s 4 people running 5mi, and then a 5th person's final leg is a 10k. A lot of XC teams use this as a team building thing and the kids sometimes wear costumes or silly outfits...usually the boys. One year they all had the BOA "jorts" and a a yellow construction safety vest for the runner, and the non-runners had hardhats on. Another year a boys team all had tacky tropical-print "suits" that THEY RAN IN. There are usually quite a few adult teams as well. Apparently Hansens used to send a couple of teams up for it, but they haven’t done that in the 5 years I’ve been around it with my kids running in it. So not I have to decide if I want to participate in that as part of my long run, and if that works for DH as far as his schedule and having someone available to care for DD. The relay would take up most of the day, so we definitely need to make sure we have all of the things factored into it before I say yes. (Please note that I would NOT race this. It would def. be an easy-to-moderate run for me.)
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