Distance: 6 miles
Run / Walk Interval (in minutes): 4 / 1
Weather: 30 degrees (generous) with wind chill of 22; winds at 16 mph, gusting to 25 mph
Course / Dogs: PATH outside my house; WITH dogs
Nutrition / Hydration: Corn bread with syrup for breakfast. Gu gel and water prior to the run; no hydration on the run. Chocolate soymilk for recovery drink.
Notes on the Run:
As you can tell from the weather description, this was a LOVELY run; hey, at least the sun was shining. Despite my 3 layers, after an initial walking warm-up, I had to go back home to get my face cover-up since the wind was whirling and I just wanted to go curl up on the couch. I’m so proud of Sandman for going all 6 miles, but even more proud of myself for not going to gym and doing the treadmill like I was tempted to do.
This time, I had my cold weather pants, wool running socks, and ear cover, hat and hood on, so I was prepared. Unlike my cold weather run a few weeks ago where I proved once and for all that I AM allergic to the cold, my legs were only slightly irritated this time, and NOT broken out in hives! YEAH, progress! I’m so glad that my long runs will come when the weather is better (I’m say now, before it gets hot and I’m cursing the humidity!).
Besides the weather, because of the holidays and finding excuses NOT to go to the gym much this week, my legs were screaming at me. I believe I may have sustained my first actual IT band injury. I felt a dull ache in my upper left thigh (near my hip) around mile 3, and it continued throughout the run. I stretched around mile 5, and it helped slightly. I am going to have to stretch better from now on, especially when I take breaks from working out like I did for Christmas and this week.
Today, January 03, 2010, was very chilly. Good thing you didn't decide to get up early in the morning to go for a scheduled outdoors run. You would have needed two or three pairs of drawers because you would have frozen your butt off. I bought a pair of glove today myseIf. I was looking for a pair of leather ones, instead I purchased a cloth pair. Cloth groves will probably be warmer anyway. They were only 5 dollars from Burlington Coat Factory. Maybe I'll look for you some triple layered drawers online = ). I didn't see any at Burlington. Sounds like this Spartan is gonna need all the help she can get in this chilly Georgia weather. You know what I can appreciate more than anything... It's a pretty good thing your recovery drink was chocolate soymilk instead of regular chocolate milke. I'm just saying... easier digestion means less gas = )
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for spilling the beans on my lactose intolerance...I'm really sure that's what folks were hoping to learn from this site.
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