I'm still getting used to the strength Mondays! It takes some adjustments :)).
Because of what I had to do in the afternoon, I knew I gotta go for my run in the morning again. I also knew it supposed to snow overnight and it's gonna be cold. It wasn't that bad, there was a dust of snow but nothing major. It was all fine when I started. I had about 1:15 easier run, with about 50mins of active. I took my little bottle with me and a gel, cause why not, I usually feel quite fatigued in the mornings after a certain time, so why not fuel the work. I took the gel after 40mins in. As I was crossing the road and hopping on the sidewalk, I didn't notice it was sheet of ice. All of the sudden I was on all 4, on the ground. I laughed and was bit in shock and was hurting. But quickly stood up and saw my leggings ripped and a bloody spot. My palms hurt and everything but I took few breaths and started to jog. It was okay. I still had few mins to run before strides. The whole area was so icy! I ended up running on the road cause the sidewalks were a death trap. I finished the workout, bit sore but survived. I've run in way worse conditions, through the whole winter and never even tripped or slipped. But eh, it's spring and first fall ever. Hah. My knee hurts 😅. Well both of my knees hurt now. Lucky me.
Wednesday was "just" an easy hour run. Again, I had to do it in the morning. There was also a strength session but I knew I'm not gonna do that. No time. Nothing about this run felt easy. I felt really tired as soon as I started running. I was doing 7:20 pace, thought I was going fast cause it felt really hard. It's funny tho how every day is so different and paces feel way different. I couldn't hold a 7:20 pace on my recovery shuffle on Sunday cause it felt SO slow and today I wished I could go even slower to make it easier for myself. The morning runs just hit differently. It was a tough fight to make it through the whole hour but I got it done. Both knees were bit sore. But not to the point that I'd have to stop. Btw. my left knee has been bothering me since like last weekend when I did the Prairie loop, I could feel it there but again, it wasn't too bad so I just let it go. Then the next day and basically all week this week, it would hurt if I placed my foot a certain way going up stairs. I felt it few times through the run but the pain would be only for like a second or two and it wasn't a sharp pain or anything. I "googled" it could be a patellar tendonitis. Hopefully it's not and it will go away. Not doing any mountain legs this week, that's for sure haha.
I had another progression run on Thursday, this time is was 5K, so one more from the past 2. To be honest, I didn't wanna get out of the bed. I was tired and not excited for it at all, especially after that hard run yesterday. I took bit more time to actually get out of the door. I did think about doing it in the afternoon but it was supposed to be really warm. But as soon as I started running, I felt okay. Even the first K wasn't as slow and I thought Okay, maybe... I started slow, well slower, checking my pace quite often cause I felt good but if I went too fast, I might not be able to finish strong. I usually start the next K too fast and then I have to slow down. My paces were 6:38, 6:24, 6:10, 5:55, 5:27. So almost to a T for what I planned, aka be faster about 15secs on the next kilometer. The last one was definitely hard, but again, I felt so much better than the day before. I was genuinely happy for this run. Because Lucy didn't wanna go for a walk in the afternoon, I had extra time so I did that strength I was supposed to do yesterday. Worked great.
Rest day was needed. And also to get ready for the big day tomorrow. I was trying to prepare as much as I could to be able to leave early.
3 laps on MoMoRo. What a stupid idea. Haha. 3 laps sound fine. But if you say well it's bit over a marathon. That doesn't sound as good. People train for marathon distance a lot and I'm supposed to do it just out of kinda nowhere? Okay, I'm not sure about that. But again...it's just 3 loops. And I have done 2. What's ONE more?
Waking up at 4am on Saturday sucks, but it was the only way how to start early and beat the heat. I'm so glad I did tho cause it was HOT. I arrived there just after 6:30am and was the first car there surprisingly. Well like 10sec later, Frans showed up too. He started just ahead of me and I was chasing him on the way up. He was fast tho. I felt sluggish and slow. All I could think again was how the F am I this slow and why am I feeling this bad again, why can't I go faster... What am I doing wrong. Comparing myself to others. But I'm not them, I have way different past, I have been running only for 2 years, I'm fuckin old and I'm doing just fine, right?! Let them shine and let myself shine too. I'm okay for what I'm doing and time/pace really shouldn't matter. It's just that. A pace. A kilometer in 5mins or 10mins is still a kilometer. I am stuck on this too much, to be faster, to be better like if you would do this 10mins faster someone would give a *shit* more about you. Well, they would not. Nobody cares, train harder. Run slow, run fast, just run. I have to let go of this. Anyways...even with a pee break and taking some layers off, to my surprise, I was faster by like a min or so than my previous attempts. Like Whoa, okay... way down was fun, felt easy, I wasn't trying to push it, just let it flow. Quick stop at the car to take pants off, refill bottles and we were on the way up again. This time I was pacing and trying to outrun Frans hah. I did :D. I actually felt way better on the second loop, I felt like I was pushing as much, maybe more than on the first one and it paid off. I was about minute faster! That made me really happy. As I was going down, I could feel that my stomach is not doing very well. I was thinking about stopping but also was like Nah, it will be fine. Well about 2K to go, I had to stop. I lost few too many mins to maybe try for sub 6 on those 3 loops. But it is what it is. I had to take my shoes off to get the debris out (I forgot to put my gaiters on). Did that, put gaiters on, refilled my bottles again, heard from coach that I'm 66% done now (definitely something I wanted to hear 🙄) and was on my way up for the last time. It was hot. I didn't feel very good. Kinda baked, kinda lightheaded. I tried to use the leftover snow to cool myself but it didn't do too much. It was kinda a death march. I was just powerhiking. Scared tho, cause I knew Evan was gonna be behind me and I didn't want him to pass me too early. I actually never saw him, which was weird (when I got down we figured he was just behind me but I went all the way to the plant where I had a little break and he went just to the gate a turned around so that's how we missed each other). I was just trying to tell myself it's only few to get to the top again and then the easy way down. Until I realized I'm gonna have to run down for 7K...I couldn't even run some of those very short flat/downhills on the way up. Yikes. But there I was, shuffling, struggling... my lungs were hurting, not when breathing but if I tried or had to cough, it was weird. I was hoping I could at least do it in sub 6:30 but after I got to K40 at 6:05 and then the next K took me 7mins, I knew it was over hah. Still, pretty happy and proud of this one. I'm dead tho, everything hurts SO bad! And thanks to coach I realized this was my longest training run ever. So Wohooo! Marathons as training runs, sounds cool, who dis?
Can't forget to talk about nose strips! After listening to another episode of SWAP podcast where they actually said what brand they are using I wrote it down and then went to London Drugs to pick some up and finally try it. Because why the hell not. My nose is always plugged and especially in the morning when it's bit colder, it's annoying. I wasn't sure how or if it's even gonna work for me and how I'm gonna feel about having a strip on my nose but I wanted to give it a try. As soon as I put it on my nose I was like WHOA! What the hell??? Instantly, I could breathe better. Like it open my nose so much I was floored. It worked perfectly. I was seriously so impressed and couldn't believe it. I was like Why the heck noone told me earlier to try this?! And why the heck noone is actually using it? Everyone should try this! It's a gamechanger!!! Free breathing for all hahah. Anyways. Try it. If your nose is always runny, plugged you will thank me for this. Nose strips for all! Thank you David.
I thought about recovery shuffle already after we finished at MoMoRo. I obviously felt absolutely terrible and couldn't really imagine going for a run the next day when walking from kitchen to the couch was the same accomplishment as climbing Everest. I felt bit better in the morning. Lucy was getting annoying but the weather looked pretty bad. But I decided to give it a go. Hike seemed way better than a run around the house. So we went to West Bragg. It was snowing pretty heavily when we arrived. But better than rain. Lucy seemed pumped. For the first 10mins. Then she pooped and she was ready to go home. I tried to make her go but she was like F this, I wanna go home. So...I walked her to the car. Took bear spray and went for a run. I definitely didn't want to drive back and then go somewhere. The first K or so felt horrible. Then up to the 5K it was actually not that bad and I was surprised I could move this well. I was sore, don't get me wrong. But I thought it would help with the recovery. I'm pretty sure it did not. I felt even worse when I got home, I even took an Epsom salt bath, had a nap... everything hurts SO bad. I hate running...
I probably didn't have to do that run. But I wanted to finish this week with 80K...
80K running / 10:38 + some walking
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