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Happy June!
First Monday in June, so let's have a check-in. How goes your running? Any races planned for this month?
It's been rather hot in a lot of places in the Northern Hemisphere. What's your favorite cold beverage to drink after a run? (In lieu of answering, Antipodeans may instead mock us with their lovely cool temperatures.)
It's been rather hot in a lot of places in the Northern Hemisphere. What's your favorite cold beverage to drink after a run? (In lieu of answering, Antipodeans may instead mock us with their lovely cool temperatures.)
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After a summer training run I LOVE iced coffee with lots of milk and sugar! (Which is funny because I drink my hot coffee black and unsweetened.) After a summer race I really like beer. The half marathon this Saturday is sponsored by one of the local brewpubs and they supply the (free!) beer afterward!
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Hills, they're so hard! I ran a out-and-back 5K course over hills while in the States, and not once managed to run the whole way. Must needs get in better shape, if I'm going to Colorado!
And I will get myself in gear and PM you about that very soon!
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I like me some water after a run, personally. :)
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Maybe this year I'll PR at my target race.
Also, I love ice coffee after a run. But unlike you, I like it with just a tiny bit of half-n-half.
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Why run a half at marathon pace? Run it all out and that will be a great fitness assessment for what your MP should be.
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Re: 1/2. That's an interesting idea. I had always been told not to go full out until you're actually at the target race. I expect to be in pretty good shape by then, but I don't want to blow the whole thing by PR'ing at a 1/2.
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The problem with running a half at MP is that it's not a very good workout. MP is too slow to be physiologically effective speedwork, and fast enough to wear you out and impact your training. It's nice to get some MP miles in toward the end of training, just to get accustomed to the pace, but I usually don't do it until even closer to the marathon, and usually the max I do is 10 easy/10MP as a long run.
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So far this spring has been somewhat adventurous:
Started with very long recovery of a hip injury that came from doing yoga as a competitive sport (which is even funnier as I was doing it to a DVD of Rodney Yee in my living room with no one else around). That was followed by a pretty spectacular bike crash that almost two month later my tailbone still aches from. The last of it was the anemia diagnosis which was actually a relief as that meant I wasn't just a lazy out of shape whiner. Last week I finally felt close to normal on the bike again, yay! Sadly, that just didn't give me enough time to get back to biking shape for Sunday. Primary goal for this one is to not be last. And to not panic on the swim.
Also, I've attempted to start a tri blog but it only has two entries so far. I need to write up at least Sunday's race and the post about my failed experience with the online coach. For those of you following along, she was attempting to impose HR training on me without first finding my baseline and going with one of the age formulas. That...didn't work so well as I've managed to get my HR over 200 on all out hill efforts and supposedly at my advanced age my heart shouldn't be beating more than 184 bpm...so the upside is that I'm back to letting a person who knows my body dictate my training, and the bad part is that I really am a lazy Schweinhund who still hasn't made a proper plan for the next three months.
And despite the fact that I'm in the northern hemisphere, it's still way too cold for my Virginia blood, but back when I was training in the south (US, that is ) my favorite post run treat was fresh cold watermelon. Watermelon satisfies me and quenches my thirst like nothing else. Otherwise, right now I'm very partial to lychee lemonade with a few ice cubes.
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Good luck with the tri, and it's great you're recovering from all those setbacks. I am amazed a coach tried to use an age-based formula for HR - that's silly.
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Ps just saw your race report, Awesome! Congrats! \o/
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I won't be getting any prizes for speed, but I kept good sustainable paces everywhere, despite a total garmin user error that left me without some of the usual metrics. It was a beautiful day to race, though, I can now say for sure that it's actually fun to do triathlon when it's not either raining or 98 and humid out.
Full report tomorrow, tired today.
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Pfft, I can do that fully awake and on a pc, you're an amateur ;)
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Post-run, I tend to go for cold water plus a little bit of powdered lemonade mixed in (and maybe a tiny bit of salt) for a bit of a homemade Gatorade effect. And the sugar bump gives me enough energy to shower and rummage for real food before I fall over.
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May saw my lowest milage this year, which was disappointing. I'm not quite sure what went wrong, since admitting the half took more out of me than expected doesn't explain all of it - I ran the half mid-April, which means I didn't run much the rest of April, but I still managed to run twice as many kms in april as in May!
Thursday I came back from a week in the States, where I managed to run a bit (i.e. run/walk, due to hills and elevation), but came home with another dumb cold, so haven't run since. At this rate I'll be lucky to match May's milage :)
Had hoped to walk/run a half in June, but I'm not in any way in shape for it, and I'm not even sure I'm up for another 10K before I start running regularly again - looking forward to cold letting up enough that I can run <3
My favourite cold drink is… - I try to only keep water in the house (i.e. what comes out of the tap, I don't even put it in the fridge to be cold) and be used to drinking that, because otherwise I kid myself ALL my drinks need to be sugary, and I don't want to be drinking my calories.
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How's June been going since your comment?
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Finally went for first, if slow and short, run in weeks yesterday. Hoping to keep at it; feel like I'm almost starting over!
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