Let the melt continue/long run/new shoes at last

Well weve been over 40 degrees for 3 days in a row now yay. Still only one day above normal in all of february. Looks like its going to stay that way for the whole month. But March is coming!

On to the running- the good thing is that 40 degrees feels perfectly comfortable now- just imagine its Jan 15 again and 40 is not so bad. Ran with Jeff starting from church- over to mantua and up to the Gnist turnaround- back to church and then out and back a mile on Belmont. It was pretty much 10 min pace the whole way which was fine. 85 minutes total which is my longest time of running in quite a while. Even though the pace was slow my legs were a bit tired by the end.

Then ran with Emily at 430. We did 35 minutes at Longnecker. She got into Navy so was very excited :) That is fabulous the only bad thing is that well prob see a lot less of her around here now but shell be doing awesome so its all good. I felt fine on this run.

Tomorrow is AM run with em and then 6x800 in 2:40 w 3 min rest at noon. Im still looking at doing the columbia 10 mile its hard to say what kind of time under 60 i hope possibly under 58. Havent been doing enough long runs for it ugh.

Also I need to get mileage up starting next week. Btw my diet is improving a bit so thats good.

Also as noted in the title my new shoes arrived im going to open them now!

to shovel is divine

Ran at the nicely shoveled mcd track today. Luckily we(i helped yesterday) did an exceptional job so there was practically a full lane all the way around so there was room to run as well as wait. So i did 4x1600 with a 1:00 rest. Marc V ran a little more than half the wo. 5:50,5:52,5:46,5:41. It was fine in terms of effort not overly difficult. Fairly windy- what else is new heh- it will be like that for about 2 months now haha. Then ran a nice 2 mile WD with Franklin/Jeff and Dave.

Franklin wo was 8x200 Josh,Andrew,Mike B,Sierra,Luke V,Brandon the front 2 were running around 30.

I predict the following for our 4x8:

Josh 2:08
Martin 2:08
Andrew 2:12
Jeff 2:08

8:36 say 8:38 with rounding. Honestly any of the 3 could go as low as 206 I think. Of course they could also run 212- 210 would be ok 212 not so good. It will be fun! Jeff 1022. Laura hm 606- she was mildy shocked about the plan for just running a mile btw heh. We'll see how that goes.

Careful thought

So ran yesterday on treadmill again. 12 min warmup then 3x9:00 at 6:15 pace with a 2:00 jog. It was fine felt ok I was considering doing 4 at the beginning but wisely did not as that would have been a jump from 24 min last wweek to 36 this week which obv I could havae done but it would have prob been too hard. Of course I knocked off the emergency stop thing in the last 9:00 run which was mildly annoying heh.

Before that we went to randallstown comm center for a workout which was good. Im glad I didnt run though the turns are very tight. Everyone did a good job. Im pretty sure ive decided what to do with Laura next week which obv ive been worrying about significantly. First of all the 3A west times werent that incredible which is good but I still think she should run 1600-2000m and try for a PR in the mile and then stop. That is way smarter than having her run along in the back and will get her ready for outdoor. And if she feels great then she can finish. And she gets a chance to run which is good obv as well.

Later in the evening last night my right foot was sore on the bottom like a bruise- maybe from lots of treadmill? I thought it would get better and its much better this am so it should be fine. I feel like ive had this before at some point.

So 2 easy runs today. Then if the track is clear workout on that on friday. Maybe something a little quicker ono Sunday in the field house? well see.

Weather still looks cold for the forseeable future. Possible snow on Monday/Tuesday people are worried about big storm it doesnt look too threaening on forecasts right now though(at least that ive seen)

Oof/It sure feels good to run again too

Well today was my first run after a 3 day unwanted break. Significantly to blame on the snow. I had a leak in the house and Saturday after driving lots of extra time and napping i worked on it for like 5 hours so ran out of time to run. Sunday I had to drive tons of extra time obv and then me went to Matts house which was nice but again no time. Then yesterday we had regionals which was na all day affair. I was very very tired this morning ugh.

So napped and rested and then went down to mcd- i was thinking about running fingers etc but ran on the treadmill instead that might happen a little bit at least until it gets up to 40-45 degrees or so. This is the last stage of winter when even though you are used to the cold you get worn down and it just feels cold again. At least thats how I feel right now.

So anyway it was a good run- ran for an hour- 2 miles at 8 min pace then slowly dropped down to 7:00 pace. Even down to 7 felt quite comfortable it started to feel a little faster when i got to 653. So that is progress def. Also I was watching some Olympic biathalon on tv for the first half of the run which was quite exciting and inspirational.

Tomorrow prob run a workout with Jeff at the randallstown comm. center that could be interesting and different.

Treadmill- good run

Went down to mcd with the sbs. Hopped on the treadmill 2 mile wu at 8:00 pace. Then 6x4:00 at 10.2 mph which was 5:52 pace with a 2:00 jog at 7:30 pace. The first one felt really fast for my legs I havent run that fast on a treadmill in a while. However breathing was quite good. I was a bit stuffy/congested in my chest just a little- stopped to get a drink after 3. Overall though it felt quite good just the way it should really- fast and somewhat of an effort but not really tough at all. Was just starting to get tired on the last one which was from 46-50 minutes of the overall run so that makes sense obv given how far I usually run right now.

Also the best thing was that I didnt feel my foot at all until a tiny bit on the last one and I can feel a bit now after. I'll ice it before the PM run which will be an easy 3.5 at Belmont with the Franklin crew. Had a good meal(fairly good) of PB+J and some cheetos- banana earlier- i guess not that great but at least im not stuffing myself with total junk. Oh and chocolate milk might be the new drink of champions. I recall some nonsense on some message board about how it was the perfect recovery drink etc etc. Who knows but it tastes good! so i might have it periodically not a lot at once though.

Im pretty sleepy so might hopefully hit a nap before leaving at 230 which is in 90 min ugh lol.

Let it Snow?!?

Haha jk. But driving home from the run I was like you know what this isnt so bad. Its just my contrarian nature coming into play now that everyone is whining and totally sick of the snow I start to like it lol. But not really. Anyway it was a balmy 37 degrees today and im being mostly serious it was nice.

I was sick yesterday with the standard sore throat/stuffy nose/cough cold or whatever it is I get. So im moving into the cough stage now which hopefully will only be a couple days. I need to do a good job of continuing to take decongestant!

The run was nice and easy today since i felt ok but i didnt want to push it. belmont out and back with sb then up the pinet grove hill almost to longnecker and back. Felt fine it was pretty slow obv but ok. 55 min at least!

Hopefully I wont be coughing for weeks heh. Wo on treadmill tomorrow. Idk if im doing the 10k on saturday they might not even have it.

Computers dont know everything...yet

It is 1:45 AM on Wednesday. I am guaranteeing we get way less snow than they said. 100% lock. I dont care about some stupid little remnants in Michigan and West Virginia. The main moisture is already east of Philadelphia and moving relatively rapidly northeast. If there is wraparound from that range I will its just impossible or extremely unlikely. I have obv been burned by this frequently but I dont care.

Also Im mildly sick but hopefully the extra rest Im getting today(i just had to do the stores) will help with that.