Mon: Taekwondo
Tue: 4 miles & evening appt
Wed: Taekwondo
Thur: Soccer & 4 miles
Fri: 5 miles
Sat: 20 miler at 8am / Soccer
Sun: REST!!!
This could be a tricky week schedule-wise. I may have to move the running up a day to accommodate the 20 miler (ie run on Mon & TKD, rest on Tue, run on Wed & Tkd, run Thur, rest Fri)
Need to sort this out...
Monday, September 21, 2009
Catch-up/clean up Post
It's been a long time since I've posted. I've written each blog post in my head as I run, it's just difficult to get them online.
So- my last post was Sep 4th. Man oh man.... I'll work my way back.
I've been sick the past week - and just not recovering like I usually do. No running Mon 9/14 to 9/20. I'm getting worried about it - next Sunday's 20 miler is going to be a long, tough, slog through the trails. I'm going to do the Running Fit 20 mile practice run for the Detroit Marathon. Misery loves company, plus it's a supported run, so I don't have to carry as much h20 & gu!
My last run was a 13-16 miler a week ago on Sunday (9/13). We went to the mall - Chris took the kids inside, and I ran - we planned to meet back for a late lunch. I ran around the mall, past the big house, up Main St to my favorite trails. The trails were beautiful, but really took a lot out of my legs. By the time I got off the trails, I knew I wasn't going to make the whole 19 miler in the allotted time. I figured I'd cut it a little short and do a double. (ie - run the remaining miles later in the day).
I didn't run on Saturday - Kid's Taekwondo tournament & a 2 1/2 hour ride home after. Didn't run on Friday 9/12 - LONG ride to the TKD tournament after school. Thursday 9/11 8 miler, saw 8 deer!! Frankie did the first 2 miles with me, I took him home and headed back out. It was a really nice run. The fawns are starting to lose their spots. Wed 9/10 Taekwondo, Tuesday, 5 miler, pretty uneventful as I recall?? Mon 9/10 Taekwondo cross training. Sunday 9/9 I ran the 12 mile loop around town. Is it just me, or is Sharon Hollow all up-hill into town??? I'll have to take a poll and find out. So far, the consensus is yes, that road is all up hill.
So- my last post was Sep 4th. Man oh man.... I'll work my way back.
I've been sick the past week - and just not recovering like I usually do. No running Mon 9/14 to 9/20. I'm getting worried about it - next Sunday's 20 miler is going to be a long, tough, slog through the trails. I'm going to do the Running Fit 20 mile practice run for the Detroit Marathon. Misery loves company, plus it's a supported run, so I don't have to carry as much h20 & gu!
My last run was a 13-16 miler a week ago on Sunday (9/13). We went to the mall - Chris took the kids inside, and I ran - we planned to meet back for a late lunch. I ran around the mall, past the big house, up Main St to my favorite trails. The trails were beautiful, but really took a lot out of my legs. By the time I got off the trails, I knew I wasn't going to make the whole 19 miler in the allotted time. I figured I'd cut it a little short and do a double. (ie - run the remaining miles later in the day).
I didn't run on Saturday - Kid's Taekwondo tournament & a 2 1/2 hour ride home after. Didn't run on Friday 9/12 - LONG ride to the TKD tournament after school. Thursday 9/11 8 miler, saw 8 deer!! Frankie did the first 2 miles with me, I took him home and headed back out. It was a really nice run. The fawns are starting to lose their spots. Wed 9/10 Taekwondo, Tuesday, 5 miler, pretty uneventful as I recall?? Mon 9/10 Taekwondo cross training. Sunday 9/9 I ran the 12 mile loop around town. Is it just me, or is Sharon Hollow all up-hill into town??? I'll have to take a poll and find out. So far, the consensus is yes, that road is all up hill.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Aug 31 - Sep 6: What is Supposed to Happen
Well - with a super-quick recovery from my 18 miler on Sunday, let me tell you how much I'm looking forward to running this week! Here's the plan:
Mon: Taekwondo
Tue: 5 miles
Wed: Taekwondo
Thur: 8 miles
Fri: 5 miles
Sat: rest
Sun: 13 miles
The planned quick recovery didn't go so well. Breathing doesn't hurt because that only involves muscles above the waist. Anything that actually involves *moving* hurts (sitting, walking, etc.). Lots of motrin, ice and food, and on Tuesday I started feeling like a live - though completely exhausted - person. Monday's Taekwondo worked out some soreness (and Mr Darr's impossibly long push-ups created some new sore muscles...)
Tuesday's 5 miler got abbreviated to ~2 miles. Wed's tkd - just fine.
Thursday Abbie & I had TKD testing. The family didn't get home until 7:30, and everyone wanted dinner. I'm flexing my schedule again this week! Here's the new plan:
Thur: rest
Fri: 8 miles
Sat: 5 miles
Sun: 13 miles
That should work ;) School starts next week, along with soccer practice, and a week-end trip out of town.
Mon: Taekwondo
Tue: 5 miles
Wed: Taekwondo
Thur: 8 miles
Fri: 5 miles
Sat: rest
Sun: 13 miles
The planned quick recovery didn't go so well. Breathing doesn't hurt because that only involves muscles above the waist. Anything that actually involves *moving* hurts (sitting, walking, etc.). Lots of motrin, ice and food, and on Tuesday I started feeling like a live - though completely exhausted - person. Monday's Taekwondo worked out some soreness (and Mr Darr's impossibly long push-ups created some new sore muscles...)
Tuesday's 5 miler got abbreviated to ~2 miles. Wed's tkd - just fine.
Thursday Abbie & I had TKD testing. The family didn't get home until 7:30, and everyone wanted dinner. I'm flexing my schedule again this week! Here's the new plan:
Thur: rest
Fri: 8 miles
Sat: 5 miles
Sun: 13 miles
That should work ;) School starts next week, along with soccer practice, and a week-end trip out of town.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
18 Miles Hurts
This week I missed a 9-mile run.
Mon: Taekwondo - cross training done
Tues: - 5 miler - done at the track with Chris & the kids
Wed: No TKD - attended the Lions Club Meeting
Thur: everyone was exhausted - we just hung out at the house and went to bed early
Fri: took Frank to the dentist, lunch with Chris at work, grocery shopping.... dates with the kids when Chris got out of work... no running....
Sat: 5 miler with Chris & the kids at the track
Sun: 18 miler... done!
The plan for today's run was to get to the start of the route by 7am. Somehow, I thought setting the alarm clock for 6:30 would get me to Ann Arbor in time. This plan was completely unrealistic - since it takes about 30 minutes to *get* to Ann Arbor, not counting the two times I hit the snooze bar, time to get dressed, eat breakfast, grab a cup of coffee, drive and park. The *actual* run start time was some time between 8:15 and 8:30am.
The temperature was about 52 when I started out. A full bottle of Gatorade in my running belt, 3 packs of gu/cliff shots, printed out maps in a ziplock, car key attached to pepper spray, and my cell phone in tow, I started out on 4th street towards Beakes. Beaks turns into Broadway when you cross over Depot St and the Gandy Dancer. From here, I took a left turn towards Argo Park and ran through my favorite trails next to the Huron River. The sun was shining through the trees and off the water - just beautiful. I passed other runners, walkers and a couple of bikers. I followed a wood planked bridge that ended up crossing to the other side of the Huron river.
Thank goodness there are public restrooms at the parks. About three miles in, I really really had to pee (too much coffee for breakfast!) Anyways - business taken care of - back to the running. Frankie called to let me to find out how many more miles I had to go. I told him 15 - he told me to sprint the rest so I could get home ;)
Trail run was over pretty quickly - 4 miles found me at Riverside park, coming up on UM Hospital. It's always important to plan your long runs past hospitals - you just never know when you may need one. This route would also take me past the VA hospital and St Joe's.
The b2b (border to border) route is a really well marked, continuous bike/running/etc trail from the west side of Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti. About every 3/4 mile is a new map, and lots of little b2b signs with arrows. Past Fuller Park, UM Hospital, soon I found myself on the east side of Mitchell Field. The b2b sign had two different ways to get to Gallup Park - a 1.25 mile route to the left, and a 1 mile route to the right. My path was the one to the right - of course!
Gallup Park was beautiful. Apparently there was a 5k earlier in the day. The race staff was cleaning up, and there were a bunch of race shirts on the tables. Looks like they didn't have the expected turn-out. More trail along the river and through fields and up along the Geddes Rd bridge.
Around the corner was Washtenaw Community College and St Joe's. WCC is building a new fitness center - nice facility, though not yet finished. Rounding the back of the hospital, I almost stepped on a set of keys on the trail. I picked them up and took them inside to the information desk. Hopefully the person missing keys will go look there! I was also hoping I was close to my turn-around point. My car seemed awfully far away, my Gatorade was gone (refilled the bottle with h2o at the hospital) and parts of my legs were really starting to ache.
Checking the map - apparently I made a wrong turn and ran the *long* way around St Joe's. The route from mapmyrun was over by a quarter of a mile, and with the long route around St Joe's, I ran to Eastern's staduim, and turned back towards Ann Arbor.
The car was really really far away. The last 7 miles seemed really long.
Mon: Taekwondo - cross training done
Tues: - 5 miler - done at the track with Chris & the kids
Wed: No TKD - attended the Lions Club Meeting
Thur: everyone was exhausted - we just hung out at the house and went to bed early
Fri: took Frank to the dentist, lunch with Chris at work, grocery shopping.... dates with the kids when Chris got out of work... no running....
Sat: 5 miler with Chris & the kids at the track
Sun: 18 miler... done!
The plan for today's run was to get to the start of the route by 7am. Somehow, I thought setting the alarm clock for 6:30 would get me to Ann Arbor in time. This plan was completely unrealistic - since it takes about 30 minutes to *get* to Ann Arbor, not counting the two times I hit the snooze bar, time to get dressed, eat breakfast, grab a cup of coffee, drive and park. The *actual* run start time was some time between 8:15 and 8:30am.
The temperature was about 52 when I started out. A full bottle of Gatorade in my running belt, 3 packs of gu/cliff shots, printed out maps in a ziplock, car key attached to pepper spray, and my cell phone in tow, I started out on 4th street towards Beakes. Beaks turns into Broadway when you cross over Depot St and the Gandy Dancer. From here, I took a left turn towards Argo Park and ran through my favorite trails next to the Huron River. The sun was shining through the trees and off the water - just beautiful. I passed other runners, walkers and a couple of bikers. I followed a wood planked bridge that ended up crossing to the other side of the Huron river.
Thank goodness there are public restrooms at the parks. About three miles in, I really really had to pee (too much coffee for breakfast!) Anyways - business taken care of - back to the running. Frankie called to let me to find out how many more miles I had to go. I told him 15 - he told me to sprint the rest so I could get home ;)
Trail run was over pretty quickly - 4 miles found me at Riverside park, coming up on UM Hospital. It's always important to plan your long runs past hospitals - you just never know when you may need one. This route would also take me past the VA hospital and St Joe's.
The b2b (border to border) route is a really well marked, continuous bike/running/etc trail from the west side of Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti. About every 3/4 mile is a new map, and lots of little b2b signs with arrows. Past Fuller Park, UM Hospital, soon I found myself on the east side of Mitchell Field. The b2b sign had two different ways to get to Gallup Park - a 1.25 mile route to the left, and a 1 mile route to the right. My path was the one to the right - of course!
Gallup Park was beautiful. Apparently there was a 5k earlier in the day. The race staff was cleaning up, and there were a bunch of race shirts on the tables. Looks like they didn't have the expected turn-out. More trail along the river and through fields and up along the Geddes Rd bridge.
Around the corner was Washtenaw Community College and St Joe's. WCC is building a new fitness center - nice facility, though not yet finished. Rounding the back of the hospital, I almost stepped on a set of keys on the trail. I picked them up and took them inside to the information desk. Hopefully the person missing keys will go look there! I was also hoping I was close to my turn-around point. My car seemed awfully far away, my Gatorade was gone (refilled the bottle with h2o at the hospital) and parts of my legs were really starting to ache.
Checking the map - apparently I made a wrong turn and ran the *long* way around St Joe's. The route from mapmyrun was over by a quarter of a mile, and with the long route around St Joe's, I ran to Eastern's staduim, and turned back towards Ann Arbor.
The car was really really far away. The last 7 miles seemed really long.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Aug 24 - Aug 30 - What's Supposed to happen
Mon: Cross Train (taekwondo)
Tue: 5 miles
Wed: Cross Train (taekwondo)
Thur: 8 miles
Fri: 5 miles
Sat: rest
Sun: 18 miles
Wednesday may be a little dicey - the rest are totally do-able!
Bought new running shoes today, and a pair of trail shoes. Can't wait to break in the trail shoes!!
Tue: 5 miles
Wed: Cross Train (taekwondo)
Thur: 8 miles
Fri: 5 miles
Sat: rest
Sun: 18 miles
Wednesday may be a little dicey - the rest are totally do-able!
Bought new running shoes today, and a pair of trail shoes. Can't wait to break in the trail shoes!!
This Week - What *did* happen
What a crazy week! On Thursday, work stuff came up and I didn't get home until after 10pm - WAY to late to run 8 miles....
Ran 9 miles on Friday (saw 5 deer!!), didn't run at all on Saturday, and got up early to run 16 miles on Sunday. What a beautiful 16 mile run! I started in Dexter, ran through town to Huron River Drive. Huron River Dr runs next to the Huron River, a long winding road with a low speed limit, and lots of bike traffic. (more car traffic than I'm used to too...). There was a misty rain coming down through my run, and a really nice temp. It started out about 60 at 8:30am, and when I finished up at 11:30 or so, it was about 65.
So - I survived the 16 miler, and I'm looking forward to this week.
Special thanks to Mom - the massage therapist! Don't think I'd be walking today if it wasn't for her magic hands ;)
Ran 9 miles on Friday (saw 5 deer!!), didn't run at all on Saturday, and got up early to run 16 miles on Sunday. What a beautiful 16 mile run! I started in Dexter, ran through town to Huron River Drive. Huron River Dr runs next to the Huron River, a long winding road with a low speed limit, and lots of bike traffic. (more car traffic than I'm used to too...). There was a misty rain coming down through my run, and a really nice temp. It started out about 60 at 8:30am, and when I finished up at 11:30 or so, it was about 65.
So - I survived the 16 miler, and I'm looking forward to this week.
Special thanks to Mom - the massage therapist! Don't think I'd be walking today if it wasn't for her magic hands ;)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
What's Supposed to Happen this Week
Mon: Cross Train (Done)
Tue: 4 mile run (Done)
Wed: Cross Train
Thur: 8 Mile run
Fri: 4 Mile run
Sat: Rest
Sun: 16 Mile run
Tue: 4 mile run (Done)
Wed: Cross Train
Thur: 8 Mile run
Fri: 4 Mile run
Sat: Rest
Sun: 16 Mile run
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