End of winter / beginning of spring thoughts:
Monday: 0 (my usual rest day)
Tuesday:
5 miles around Weekapaug with Crutch. Ran most of Clamdigger course and checked out curbs to see if snow-free enough for SNERRO to certify course. Not quite ready for prime time.
Wednesday:
6 miles. Needham, MA. Windy, cold, icy on the roads, but better than the 'mill. Right?
Thursday: 0 (too busy packing for trip and driving to Maine; a/k/a poor planning)
Friday:
5 miles. After a tiring day of skiing at Sunday River, a tiring run with Matthew in Maine. No matter where we ran, it was either steep uphill or downhill (we're in the mountains, afterall). Wore me out completely.
Saturday: 0 (busy day skiing, and swimming, and drinking, and cavorting)
Sunday:
Woke up in Maine to 9 degrees, blasting winds, and fresh snow/ice. Passed on a morning run.
5 miles back in Westerly with Matthew out to Rock Ridge and back. Everything was sore.
Weekly Mileage Log:
0.3
0.
21 miles. Lowest week this year, but I did get in a lot of skiing to offset, and it can't all be about running, right?
- Why did I sign up for Boston? At the moment, I feel like I never want to run another spring marathon again, due to the winter training regimen. (Kudos to Muddy for banging out mega-miles on the mill, but I just don't have it in me mentally.)
- I have no complaints about snow, and in fact, next winter I want to snowshoe and x-c more. It's just that on a frigid Saturday or rain-soaking Saturday, I just don't want to feel that I "have to" get in a long run.
- Jonny said it best today (23 March) on a Strava posting: "Hard to get excited about chilly road runs anymore." Here's to many trail runs and multi-sport adventures as we move into spring.
Monday: 0 (my usual rest day)
Tuesday:
5 miles around Weekapaug with Crutch. Ran most of Clamdigger course and checked out curbs to see if snow-free enough for SNERRO to certify course. Not quite ready for prime time.Wednesday:
6 miles. Needham, MA. Windy, cold, icy on the roads, but better than the 'mill. Right?Thursday: 0 (too busy packing for trip and driving to Maine; a/k/a poor planning)
Friday:
5 miles. After a tiring day of skiing at Sunday River, a tiring run with Matthew in Maine. No matter where we ran, it was either steep uphill or downhill (we're in the mountains, afterall). Wore me out completely. |
| l-r: my cousin's son, my cousin Dave, Matthew, Mark |
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| Matthew coming down the slope |
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| Mark in the glades |
Saturday: 0 (busy day skiing, and swimming, and drinking, and cavorting)
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| One of hardest, but coolest, glade trails I skied (straight ahead through the trees). Akin to a good trail run. |
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| Great vista. Mark in center foreground. |
Sunday:
Woke up in Maine to 9 degrees, blasting winds, and fresh snow/ice. Passed on a morning run.
5 miles back in Westerly with Matthew out to Rock Ridge and back. Everything was sore.Weekly Mileage Log:
0.30. 21 miles. Lowest week this year, but I did get in a lot of skiing to offset, and it can't all be about running, right?
Sometimes I really miss skiing. Nice pics!
ReplyDeleteI love the winter running but the last several weeks, the cold has really gotten to me. I am looking forward to the rising temps and my first race of the year coming up in April.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Nicole. Can't say I enjoy this spring rain, but I'm looking forward to some warmer and drier runs.
DeleteAs I watch your and Muddy's long runs on Strava, I think to myself, I hope for a perfectly perfect weather day for Boston for both of you. You, especially, have more than earned a nice cool partly cloudy spring race day with the wind at your back.
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth. I've run Boston in 86-degree high-Noon heat, and I've run it in a Nor'easter. Neither was much fun; if anything similar this year, I'd probably just bag it.
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