I thought I'd handle the Triple Crown bit better but my poor quads! So freakin sore! Worst than yesterday. Wanted to do some core/strength but decided that yoga and some rolling is good enough.
3:40am wake up call is never good and especially not if it's cold and raining. I so didn't wanna go! But plan is a plan. Got myself out the door. My headphones turned off not even 2mins into the run. Great. More than an hour of listening to my heavy breathing, my favorite! Legs felt heavy and sore. It was terrible. One of those runs when you can't wait for it to be over. Strides weren't as bad as I thought. Legs weren't moving fast but moving. Felt actually quite good after those. For like 2mins. Then it was a death march home. Well actually, I could've ended the run way earlier but because of how terrible I felt, I added few more mins to make sure I know how it feels and how strong I am to get through it. Luckily enough for me, this time I didn't get soaked by sprinklers cause they were pointing the other direction when I went by! Wohoooo.
I had only a strength in the plan for today so got that done in the morning and it was good. Then I had a great idea to finally go for a boxing class again! Like I didn't learn the last time. It was awesome. I'll regret it in the next few days tho 😅
Beautiful morning for a run. Felt okay, nothing too great but it was nice. My left hamstring/glute is still bothering me a little bit, it's been like that since after the weekend. I've stretched/rolled but I still can feel it. Not when running but if I bend over etc. My right foot also started to hurt when I step on it certain way. Did strides as sprints again haha, legs felt kinda heavy. But I went for it anyways. To my surprise, sprinklers were on again and I got soaked but didn't mind cause I was really warm. Thought tomorrow would be a rest day, that's what the plan was saying anyways. But with the shitty weather coming in, coach decided that we can split the longer run on Saturday into two. 1:30 tomorrow morning again and then shorter trail run Saturday. Ugh, I know it's just another run and in the end it's gonna be the same or maybe even better but still, that's 4 straight days of running and it makes me tired just thinking about it. I like my rest days hah. I shouldn't have gone for the boxing class 😅. Oh well...
If I was tired last week and it was hard to get up and go, today was even worse. Everything was hurting. Second day is the worst right. Time to grind I guess... I felt really terrible when I woke up. Hour and half of running...that sounds like the hardest thing to do right now. Okay, let's go. It was gloomy, bit windy and I could see all the rainy clouds rolling in from the mountains. My foot was hurting again. I had to really think about how I'm placing it. It was bit annoying, but it eventually stopped, or I just learned how to run with it. Surprisingly, I felt okay. I took it really slow but steady. No need to push it anywhere. In the end, it was good.
I woke up early. It was raining. I did bit longer warm up/yoga. I was kinda ready to go but also thinking about alternatives. I don't have waterproof pants or even jacket really. But these are just shitty excuses right?! Like who's gonna carry the boats!?? Haha to be clear, I don't really know anything about Goggins, I've never read any of his books or anything like that. I've only seen those memes and what other people said about him on podcasts etc. I've recently listened to Cam Hanes's audiobook and he was talking about Goggins a little bit. Love him or hate him, in the end, whatever makes you go out of the door, that's what matters. And sometimes it is a little bit of Goggins motivation. Somehow for me, the worse the conditions, the more I want to do something. I guess maybe because I just want to show myself I can do it, I can do hard things, and I can also show and maybe inspire others to do the same. I didn't have to go for a run today really, I could've waited till the evening maybe when the rain was supposed to stop, but for some reason I felt like running in the worst conditions ever gonna make me "harder". Well, that was until I actually opened the door and saw how much it was actually raining and how windy it was too. I started thinking about going to the gym instead and maybe do a treadmill run. But then who the fuck is gonna carry the boats!? In this case, I kinda wished the boats would carry me with so much water everywhere. You will never know unless you go. I told myself, even if it's just for an hour, go for it! At least try. So I did. My shoes were soaked within the first 1K. My pants probably after like 20mins. Everything else shortly after. I was laughing at myself for doing such stupid shit and even more when I was crossing over the reservoir on the side of Glenmore trail, I wondered what the people driving by must think. What a dumbass. But I wasn't the only one! I met 2 other runners, one guy was doing the whole loop too! It was fun, until it wasn't when it got really windy. But forward is the only way. I usually think about lot of things on my runs but today it was just me, the rain and motion forward. There wasn't much. I had spare tshirt and other jacket in my pack, I was planning to stop for a bathroom and maybe change but as I got closer, I realized that if I stop and try to pull my pants down, I won't get them back up :D. I was so soaked and I just wanted to keep moving and be done with it, I didn't have to use the bathroom luckily. With not even 5K to go, I remembered what Andy always says: Even your mom can run 5K, LET'S GO! I wasn't really cold as I thought. When moving, I felt fine. But when I got home and jumped in the shower, my arms and my legs started to tingle and that stinging sensation when you are really really cold and you run warm water on your body, that's hot it felt, so I was cold I guess. I survived tho. Had a nap later and enjoyed rest of the day haha.
It was Piglet's time. Because of all the rain and snow in the mountains, I made last minute decision to go to Johnston Canyon. The most touristy place around Banff. But it has paved sidewalks so no mud? It was packed but not as bad in the morning. Lucy was happy to have so many people around on the trail tho. That changed a bit as we kept going all the way to the Ink Pots. The way back was a zoo. It was overall, one of the longest hikes actually in the recent months.
68.6 K / 11:12 TOF
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