Anyone else get some miles in today?
I’m planning some intervals this evening after work. There’s a track around a park that’s 0.3 miles, so my plan is to run them at or below 6 min/mi. I spent my weekend cycling and last week was a recovery week. This week it’s on though!
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So… Have you booked a 1/2 marathon?? I’m doing an event called rat race in May and I need to get up to 20 miles and 200 obstacles by then. Us anyone else lost their mind and signed up for something ridiculous? Or is it just me? X
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Not running related, but I’m thinking about signing up for a 125 mile bike ride in May that has 12,356 feet of elevation gain! Farthest I’ve ridden is 107 generally flat. I’m going to focus on 5k running wise, hopefully win one eventually. The half marathon I’m eveying isn’t until the fall. That obstacle course seems like it’ll be fun. There have been some around here, but not that intense.
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Friends and I are training for the New York a city Half Marathon next month. I love NYC and have never done a race there. We plan to run ten miles tomorrow.
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Awesome! Signing up for crazy events is my new addiction!? I have signed up for all (3) distances of the Spartan obstacle course races this year as well as a 26k skyrunning event at 10k foot elevation.
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Bought new shoes and ran 5 km with them today, really liking the asics gel feel, never tried them before.
30 mins of weights and core after, feeling great for it.
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Good for you. I want to get back in to swimming too, so going to swim tomorrow and give my calf a break from running for a couple of days.
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Love the ASICS…switched over to those for my most recent pair of road shoes. I run Salomons for mud and trails.
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Wow! That sounds amazing! What a fantastic adventure! When are you doing it?
Wow awesome!! I’ve seen the spartan races advertised. They look amazing! Have you done it before? Adventure races are a brilliant focus. You can’t go training with a hangover!
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It takes place May 20…it’s here in North Alabama, but it’s on the East side of the state, which is hilly, and I’m on the West, which is flat. I punish myself regularly when it comes to fitness, so I’m needing a new “fix”. Thats part of why I’m getting into running, not bored of cycling, just wanting some variation to keep things interesting.
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That sounds like a brutal ride, but definitely worth doing.
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More reason to get a bicycle!
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I’ve done 3 to date and I’m signed up for 3 more…LOVE them. I used to do MTB/kayak/trail run based adventure races, but it’s been quite some time. I had actually become quite adept at training with hangovers…I would even vomit on occasion during training runs 
sounds so freaking stupid now that I think of it. I never realized my full potential though…now that I am sober, I am able to train so much harder so much more frequently. It is a huge difference in my performance, having alcohol out of my life.
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Such a great reward for getting sober. Ive always done loads of climbing, mountain biking and fell running with circuit training and spinning in between. But when I had my daughter it became so much harder to get out on adventures. And I could make some great excuses when I had a hangover.
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I totally agree. “I don’t have time is one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves” …when we had kids it was the same for us. Amazingly with young children, although we never had time (seemingly) to go to the gym or train the way we wanted, we could certainly always find time to drink. Now I’m making that time - I ride mtb with my oldest and climb with all three of them…they are all doing the next Spartan race I do too (kids version)…my oldest has already done 2 before. Paradigm shift…if it’s important enough we find time and find a way.
I gotta say-I love seeing the thread “runners log” on this site! Such a positive topic 
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Yep! There’s also a ride in North Georgia called 6 Gap…it has about the same elevation but it’s only 100 miles. One of the climbs is 7 miles, maybe 6% average. I’ve never felt like I’ve had the fitness to attempt it so i always say “next year”. I need to end up committing as I’m not getting any younger and it will only get harder.