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I like this. I like the feeling when your legs are more and more co-operative, and when the amount of pure pain does not wear your body down when running easy runs. This morning we ran another Bagel Run without bagels. I ran with Tom, Andy, Mark, Tim and Lady X (name unknown) for the first 7 miles after which I continued with Andy. I ran 13 miler (@ average pace of 6.25) and did not feeling a thing. In other words, I negatively assisted tomorrow's XC race by running too fast today. You get this smart only through years of experience.
Smelly Friday? No. I challenged myself to run @ faster pace the first time since Bmore marathon relay. Well, someone could also claim that my pace there wasn't so fast, and I wouldn't have anything to say about that. But the reality was and is what you see. Today I felt just fine doing 5x3 min. with 2 min rest jog. Afterwards I even noticed that the pace (5.40-5.13) was a little faster than I expected. So I can already now cite O'Shea Jackson a.k.a. Ice Cube: "Today was a Good Day".It is snowing back home....
After all, I did two runs yesterday which was pretty nice. In the morning I sneaked out for an easy 3 miler + 5x100m strides. Then I did my now-usual gym workout before I left to spend my valueable hours on Capitol Beltway. In the evening I met with guys for a normal Wednesday group run. It felt just great. No remarkable pain => nothing to complain! Our bodies are - after all - build for distance! Good read.Today I ran 5 miler and hope that I have enough time for another one in the evening. Tomorrow I'll do some fartlek. I'm really excited about Sunday's NYC marathon. If it is really going to be Sell's last major marathon, I should consider driving to NYC to watch the race...
Tuesday is just about to turn into Wednesday. Time is flying. Today I had time only for one run, since I have been revising one article to be submitted to the final round asap. The run itself was so painful experience that it was pretty easy to neglect its second counterpart in the evening. Tomorrow I will have to spend some extra hours on beltway, but I'll do my best in order to hurry to HCC for another group run. But Thursday is always better, right?
This was a nice Monday for awhile. Two easy runs and added with a gym session in the morning. In addtion, todays comprised couple of hours in a car. I returned my office keys, and accordingly visited Fairfax campus first time in few weeks. I have to confess that foilage does not spoil the scenery... I had planned some sort of tempo repeats for the evening, but instead I just ran 6 miles without a watch.
I really did NOT remember the special nature of the Grapevine XC race which takes place next week. Today I had a chance to join Jason on his way to check out the course and run a little over there. Due to my scarce memory capacity I had totally forgotten what to expect, but a picture of challenge lives strong in the back of head the rest of the week. I'm sure that the course was sleeping today, and it will unleash itself next Sunday. At least that's what my hamstrings told me to expect. 9 miles at pedestrian pace.
No running on Friday nor on Saturday due to the conference in Arlington. Yesterday I had my alarm waking me up @ 4:30 AM, but I did have enough energy to go running (=what a wuss). Maybe today I'll have a chance to sneak out for a run after I've spend the afternoon in D.C with couple European colleagues.One of my heroes, Brian Sell, is running his last serious marathon in NYC according to Runner's World.
After couple easy days I chose to continue with an easy day. Sweetie and I ran 6.2 miler (51.20) and then I continued with some exercises in order to get this aging body in some order. It's tough work with uncertain outcomes... Oh, if anybody knows any time machines available with reasonable price, please let me know.No. It's just talk. After missing 3-4 years of the "active years" due injuries I just gotta be happy with current circumstances no matter the amount of pain involved. Running Times magazine had a good article on aging. I think that it's the first time when I have paid any attention to this subject. Am I too late? Fortunately, the brain hurting thingy is more work- than running-related...The afternoon jog (5 miles, ~6.57/mile) felt much better than the one in the morning. I even started to invent new Finnish XC Series purely because I envy XC's popularity here.
Easy 3-miler + gym workout. Hamstring are already feeling better which of course does not suck. This evening I'll again join THE group at HCC. Hopefully others are still tired from marathon and stuff.Well, Mark (marathon PR man) and Carlos weren't so tired, but still pace was easy and enjoyable. No particular problems with hamstrings. That's pretty ok.
The fall is usually the easiest season in training. All the work and races are done and there is only recreational running in your schedule. But when you are a recreational runner, what you are supposed to do? I don't know, but I'm learning. In any case, it's maybe better not to pay too much attention to this kind of details, and just enjoy running as such. Today's morning shake out (5 miles) was just that, a pleasure fulfilled with familiar pain. And I'm still smiling.
