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Sounds like a very difficult week. It's great to have you back.

40K on the trainer. Well done!

Wow, 7AM is an early start and makes it very hard to do anything in the morning. Any chance of getting a little free time during the day? For an athlete as good as you, it should be easier to maintain, but hopefully you will be able to get a little bit of training squeezed in. I was wondering, what do you teach?

Anthony

You know getting time during the day may be the way to go. There are showers here at work so a lunchtime run should keep me in trim.

I am teaching the last section of the radiation therapy course that we give to our physics and physician residents. I am doing brachytherapy which is the use of radioactive materials directly for therapy (insertions).

J

Kelly, you definately win the award for craziest run of the week, Anthony, you get a close runner up for your deer sightings.  Sudsy pants is just too funny!!  Great job to the both of you for your perseverence through some bad weather- your dedication cannot be questioned!

Julian, nice to have you back.  7 am start time sucks but it is doable.  I work at 7 3 days a week and 7:30 the other two and have a 30 min commute.  I have to get up at 4:30 to get anything done though.  I am lucky that I dont have evening commitments which allow me to be in bed well before 10 pm.  I can only get about an hour of work out in but it is still better than waiting until after work for me.  I am not disciplined enough to work out after work.  If I decide to train for anything more than a 1/2 marathon, I think it would be very difficult.

   I officially signed up for the Mussleman  Sprint - It is a long way off but I wanted to offer my dad's place at the lake for a get together before or after the race if you like.  He is on the west side of Seneca about 20-30 min from Geneva.

OH, on a happy note, I had my fastest 5K time today in a LONG time ( after 30 min of intervals on the trainer)- hope that means good things for my race on sun!

Keep on training folks!

Paula

Hi, guys!!  Julian, glad to hear from you!!  Good luck with the crazy schedule. (BTW, as the musician among scientists here, I feel very privileged to be among such smarty-pants!!)

So, after a month of workouts with exactly one day off, I am officially tired!! Here are my March totals compared to my Feb. totals---crazy!!

 I was scheduled for a 45 min. easy run today, and squeezed out 36, but it was not pretty.  I had to go super slow to keep my HR in check.  I am taking the day off tomorrow, even though my plan has me scheduled for an hour run.  I really think that run on Sunday took it out of me!!  I also have a very tight left leg.  I was actually hoping that someone (Paula maybe?) might be able to suggest a stretch for the muscle/tendon(??) that is on the outside of the bottom part of the leg attaching to the outer part of the ankle.  I don't know what it is called, but, man, it is tight.  It hurts more toward the ankle as opposed to toward the knee (and I use the word hurt very lightly, more of a tightness.).

I feel a little guilty about my day off tomorrow. I feel like I always am skimping on running days, but for me that is definitely the hardest to recover from.

Paula, it would be great to get together!!  I'm trying to convince my husband to do the sprint, so we might even pawn the kids off on gramma and grampa and come by ourselves for the weekend!

Kelly, No wonder you are tired- big difference in training from one month to another.  It sounds like you are talking about the Peroneal muscles in your leg.  The move the ankle outwards (eversion).  Its an odd muscle group to feel tight but maybe you twisted your ankle a little on your sudsy run! It's difficult to describe things so bear with me- Point your foot down like pressing on the gas then turn your toes inward- that should stretch a little.  Sometimes just a good calf stretch with your toes turned in and out helps too.  Hope that helps a little bit.  Tell your hubby he really needs to do the sprint so I dont feel like a schmuck being the only short distance person!  It would be a really nice get away for you guys!  There are a million bed and breakfasts along the lake too.  I would offer my dad's but it is just a little trailer and the sleeping accomodations are not the best.  It will be great to actually get to meet you guys though!

 I just got an email from my gym appologizing for "finding out the way you did that we are closing"  I am not sure what that means- Hopefully they will still be open this morning as I am on my way to swim! I only had 2 months left on my membership and they are trying to find a place that we can go but this is not a good time to loose my pool!!!  Details to follow.  Better be just an april fools joke but I doubt it.

Paula

Showers at work is great. Plus, since you cover ground so quickly, you can get a lot more running miles in during a short lunch than I can

Interesting stuff. One of my brothers had the radioctive seeds for his prostate with very good results.

That is so cool that you signed up for Musselman! Should be a great time!

That was an excellent run. I have to tell you, I am jealous that you have a race this weekend. You are gonna rock!

Anthony

I think it is a good idea to take a day off. Having difficulty keeping your heart rate in check very likely means that you need the rest. 

I think you got excellent advice from Paula, and I am going to try stretching like she described as well. I sometimes get some pain in that same area, but only in my right leg. I attribute it to running on roads with a camber. Whenever I can I run in the middle of the road where it is flatter.

Don't feel guilty! Rest and recovery are important! Where have I heard that before?

Anthony

So it wasn't a silly April Fools joke, my gym just closed it's doors with no warning. Oddly enough they took money from people yesterday for a year long membership!!  I only had 2 months left and only paid $99 for a year but I am still not happy!  I lost my pool- small as it was, it was still a place to swim.  Of course I still went this morning and it was dark and locked up at 5:30 am.  Well, nothing is open at that time but Walmart so I had to kill a little time before I went to work.    Rumor has it the YMCA will give us 60 days free- that would be the best option for me since they have a pool and a tri club.  I was very upset to not be able to swim today- really needed one more good one before sunday's tri.  I also had a horribly long day at work and ate really crappy!

hope everyone else had a better day!

Paula

That sucks about the gym, Paula.  I can't believe they would do that with no notice at all!!  At least if you switch to the Y, you'll have a regular size pool!!  Thanks, too, for the stretches.  I have sprained my left ankle pretty badly twice in my life, and I think it stems from that.  Definitely didn't twist it on my sudsy run!!

I did end up taking the day off today, and I'm glad I did.  I think I will feel much better for tomorrow's training.  Thanks for the wisdom and encouragement, Anthony.

Well, that stinks that they just closed like that. I wouldn't worry about missing one swim workout; you have done some nice swimming the last few weeks, so you will be just fine!

Anthony

Hey everyone! Hope you all have a good weekend.

And especially for Paula: Best of luck with your race this weekend. You are going to do great.

ROCK ON!!!

Anthony

THanks for the supportive words- I think I will need them.  I did a brick today and was SLOW going!  I felt so good on tuesday but today killed me.  I rode outside for about 11.5 miles (sun race distance) but the wind was CRAZY hard, then ran 3.1- it was super slow going unlike the other day.  It was certainly humbling if nothing else.  I went to the YMCA today- they are giving people from my gym free time until 5/31- PERFECT!  They have a 4 lane and a 6 lane pool  of normal length too!  It is not the nicest place but F-R-E-E works for me.  If there is time, I hope to swim a little tomorrow morning since I missed one this week.  My family comes in tomorrow for a week.  It will be hectic but should be a good time.

Have a great weekend everyone.  I will give full details of Tri #2 on sunday.

Paula

Good luck, Paula!!!