40 minutes, 12 degrees, wind chill of 5 below. It was a good one.

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I forgot to include the "below".

Euphoric, that must have been awesome! Did you have to use a ski mask? Did anything tighten up on you unusually so? One other question: Were you the only runner out there? I'm skipping one more run, that's today. Saturday, I get back into stride.

                                                                                Paul

6 miles slow for me today.  I need just 6.6 over the next two days in total for my 3rd 35 mile week in a row.

I think these ten-second hill sprints are a new craze based on a Runners World article, but please correct me if I am wrong. I have seen a few others do them.  I think you get a short explosive workout which is good for the legs and for form and turnover.  I imagine you get the same with strides during or after a workout but without the strength needed to charge a hill.  And yes of course you would want to be very warmed up before such an exercise.   Spareribs

Ribs, kudos for the three weeks in a row 35 miles.

Euphoric, I just read more about pool running today. It's the best substitute for running, from what I read. I think I'm going to try it one of these days just to see what it's like. Minus 5 degrees is cold....

KS, sounds like that day off might have been good (that is, unless you decided to go later in the day). I usually play it by ear as to when I'm going to run--lately it's usually late afternoon. But, I love early morning (5:30) runs. But I'm almost always at work by 6 am so I can leave earlier in the day.

Today was 8.20 miles, easy, all in the pouring rain, and I was pleased since I had 6 miles in mind. Everything was sound. Miles 3-7 were 9:45, 10:00 pace. I did an upper body workout yesterday but not today. Feeling good.

I talked with my ex-husband today about running (I began running with him when I was 21). He still runs about 35 miles a week. His fastest marathon was 2:56. I ran 18 miles of another marathon with him, the SF marathon, and I wish I had been able to run the whole way. I hadn't entered the race officially--I was pacing him and planned to drop out, which I did. But I was running a 7:00 pace at the time, and feeling great at 18 miles, when I left the course. That was the 1986 marathon.

Sierra - that's a nice pace for a marathon.  You should have gone on ahead and see if you found a wall in the next 8 miles. 

6 ez was the plan tonight but ez must be getting ez-er.  7:15 avg. pace after an 8 min mile warm up.

Sat. is the 10K so we will see what hard and ez are.   Temps have been in low 30's to low 40's every morning for 3 weeks.  Sat for the race the low is to be 65 and 25 mph winds.  Never fails.  Oh well; we all have to run in it.  If I'm lucky I can get in behind a group that will pull me along in the wind.

Where is Tigger?

I'm still around but have had to stop running again.  I just got back to it today.  I've been doing some serious leg stretches in an effort to get rid of the problem, and it appears to be working.  Today I was hoping to run 5k, but only managed 2.  My hip felt really good as I went out, but I felt a tweak at the first k mark so I returned home.  At least I'm able to sleep in relative comfort these days, but weight is rising quickly.

Good luck with the race!

Jacques, I think that when the weather starts to warm up, all those aches and pains that we are now feeling will disappear.

*Pain is just nature's way of saying that winter is a stone cold *****.*X-(

Paul

My own personal 10K, 6.2 miles in 1:12:52 for an avg 11:42 m/m.  This was a nice run, 44F felt downright balmy, and the sun shining off the potomac was fantasitc.

I found an new half mary in May that I will target.  www.pacersrunningfestival.com

I love running    and it feels so good to be out there again (swimmings not so bad either).

Tomorrows plan is to run 5 or 6 and then swim for 30 min or so. 

Good day and good runs....