Day 2
Good morning everyone!
Welcome to day 2. I hope you all had a great Christmas Day. My wife and I really enjoyed having our grown kids home along with Tricia's new beagle puppy- Doogie. Saw Avatar last night- Great flick!
Not many people at the Y this morning. Snowing and blowing outside pretty hard. Clicked off my 9 miles with 7.5 miles of TP intervals(the last mile hard as usual....)
Heading for Chicago to see my sister and her family today so had to get it done early. Have a great day and hope you enjoy your run.
John
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Snowy run today, but only 34 degrees so no bonus point there. Ran 11 miles in 1:21:00 5 @ ; TP ( sub 6:30's) thanks to a good tailwind coming down the coast.
17 points for the day. Hitting the ice bath now, after 26 miles in 2 days. An ice bath is not very appealing especially when it is snowing and 34 degrees, but the hips, back and legs will thank me later.
Did a short 2 miles as a brick after being on the bike. We have broken freezing, and to be honest, I am NOT sorry to miss that 1 measly point. Like Gina- Hoping to make all 8 days and help out the team!
Wind is howling here today and it's cold- so I ran on my Mom's decrepit old treadmill - bad idea. I can sometimes do the cold and sometimes the wind, but rarely can I do them together! Plan was to run 5, but the machine might not have made it ;-). 3.5 miles with 1 at TP. Run Chicas Run!
Bread 'n Butter 4mi easy today. Back on boring flat turf in Houston trying to recover from that gold star effort yesterday. The Sabino Canyon run is one of my favorite all-time locations. Felt pretty good, but experience tells me that it will take the better part of a week to be ready for another big day . No tundra points here.
I 'snuck' a TP mile in while the 25MPH gusts were at my back! Wind chill made it feel a lot colder than it was. I regret not wear tights and was glad I had left wool gloves in my windbreaker.
Looking forward to Mid-40s and sunny tomorrow.
Day 2 in the books. I drove the car to the shop to get serviced, then ran home. 14.3 miles in a little over 2 hours, no TP, mid 40's temp. Like my newest, bestest, arch-rival Bob, I went for the "ice" bath afterwards:
Yes, that is the EN gang sign (thank goodness for still photo's, you can't see how bad I'm shivering!). And no, my legs aren't really that short!
And just so you don't think this is one of those resort-style swim up bars, here's the pool thermometer...
That was a pretty brutal 5 minutes! But I'm really focusing on recovery - it's the only way to get through this madness.
Mike
Finally on the board thanks to the motivation provided by all of you running in the cold. I'm visiting family in Hawaii so I know I won't get any sympathy for no tundra points but I nearly died trying to run at TP in the heat after training in New York all of these weeks. Tomorrow I will get my run in BEFORE the sun comes out!
6.5 points: am I supposed to be putting in points or miles ran in the spreadsheet??
okay so you know I am a mom and after the holidays my brain is fried I tell ya!
so I charge my brand new Garmin last night and DH gets it set up and ..... I forgot it at home... then I am on my way with Rudy to the first in the Winter Series runs, except that when I get there, well THERE is not where the start is and I am not sure where IT was... so the dog hasn't been potty yet and it is 7:45 a.m. so I make up my own Series and I guesstimate 4.5 miles but yes below 32! smart wool socks are "da bomb" with Asics, tights and underarmour shorts under that, jog top, underarmour base layer and turquoise Brooks jacket, headband and brand new Gore gloves and with some chocolate chip homemade but a tad overbaked cookies for calories!! and off we trot..... with a nice tailwind and then 
head wind of max 14mph! this always makes my pace pick up and effort higher so I was sweating under all of that and finished up damp... so changed it all and set off on a bike ride 
with everything I own ON, and I rode for another hour in the sun but also very windy!! that I also had neck gaitor, beanie, new helmet cover, warmer bike tights, shorts under that, long wool socks, gloves and jacket.... kept the neck gaitor over my nose for most of the short ride! then back at the Car, Rudy asleep in my front seat so I stretched outside until the wind was just too cold and NOPE didn't think of hopping into my pool when I got home 
but I do have on my new DH christmas present to me, 2XU $ compression calf sleeves and my they feel great!! 
I didn't make it early enough for 7:14 sunrise but just a bit later so the sun looked great on the bridge that takes you from NLR to Little Rock, I had just come across. so the Rivertrail is on the edges of both sides and we have a pedestrian/bike bridge (longest in the world!) that we ride or run across. This is the driving bridge and traffic gets clogged up on this thing and in the winter it gets icy and then it takes FORever to get home although just miles away.
so Day One running was on the other side of the river and today I am on the Little Rock side on part of the Little Rock marathon (early March FYI)....
Had an hour at LRP on the schedule with 4x30" uphill strides. I made the 4x30" strides into a 5', .65 mile, 4.4% hill climb. Pace was 7:43, NGP was 6:16. Too bad I couldn't use NGP to get TP points.
I threw in a mile at TP toward the end. It felt good to open it up.
8 miles, 1 hour, 1 mile @ TP = 10pt. That's about my max. Don't want to fry myself too much..
Ice bath question for those that do it. How long do you stay in this time of year? I could barely last five minutes today.
Dave
Put in a few miles today. Super windy so nice to be out of the cold down on the trails! Looking at the forecast for the next week- appears some temp bonus points are on the way!
Mike- talk about taking one for the team
You are a superman!
Found this to be a bit tough after the scheduled bike ride this morning. Squeaked out 4 miles with Mile 3 faster than threshold for me. 5 points....today...
Not putting up any respectable numbers today for my chicka team. Sorry, ladies. Between that bike this morning, visitors in and out of here, and my heavy, heavy legs--it was 2 miles.
It's all I could fit in! And it was 38 degrees on top of that--not even an extra point!
Way to get it done, everyone!!
Logged 7 miles again today in the snow after the scheduled ride. I think someone below used the term 'heavy legs', pretty accurate description. Someone else said something about squeaking in only 2 miles, was very tempted to do that as well after that ride. But thanks to the 'Challenge' and the fact that I'm hyper competitive/psychotic, I muscled through
. 9 points for today.
No one said we couldn't just run one mile, so, after almost 2 hours on the bike and eager to get to shopping, I ran 1 mile on the treadmill. Should be posting some good numbers tomorrow, though. Sorry, chicas!
@Carie: LOL it's not easy mustering empathy for Hawaiian heat all the way from Pennsylvania but I'll try...
Nice wet run today: 8 miles, three at TP, over an hour. Tomorrow... probably not so much... Ice on my knee and in my drink but so far not in the bathtub. Might have to change that soon...
Have fun and stay safe,
Paul
Pretty impressive numbers people are throwing up thus far.
Hi,
I thought it would be interesting to get everyone's opinion on this, so I started a thread in the General Training forum: endurancenation.us.dnnmax.com/tabid...fault.aspx
Short answer - after 5 minutes I would have preferred waterboarding.
Mike
Intervals on the trainer were a bust , went out for the brick and had nuttin' , ran one mile and walked home...