Prairie fire training long run: week five
Running on the last day of vacation is comparable to listening to nails being dragged across a chalkboard all day (we just got chills up our spine).
Before we headed out on our long run, Mr. B and we had to pack and be out of the house by 11am. We mean who doesn’t love to pack and do chores right before they run a half marathon. We were not in a happy place. Thank God Matt and Elizabeth were there to help us clean up. Otherwise things could have gotten ugly.
SUNDAY:
Me:12 miles. We were worried about this run. We wasn’t in the right frame of mind, our legs were tired, and we started our run late, like 10am. Good thing Jesus had mercy on our souls because the weather was cool and partly cloudy. If it hadn’t been cool, we wouldn’t have run.
Matt and Elizabeth ran the first six miles with us into town. It was nice to have a change of pace and people to talk too because those six miles flew by. Once we split from Matt and Elizabeth, we took off and almost killed Mr. B because we were running 9 minute miles. Dumb idea. At mile 8 we were dying. Does that ever happen to you? Do you ever just bolt and don’t realize the consequences?
Anyways, the last four miles just sucked. It felt like we were running forever! We stopped and walked half of mile ten and eleven because there was no gas left in the tank. When our garmin read 12 miles, we swear we could have fallen over dead.
Mr. B: 12 miles. Miles 1-3 weren’t bad. This was our third run to town from the house so the scenery was familiar (we like that, some don’t). We have logged enough miles to know when we'll start to loosen up so we were looking forward to mile 4, and we were right. Miles 4-9 went by quickly for us. We had a great pace, and other then stopping to make plans to meet up for lunch at mile 6, we didn’t waste any time.
Mile 10 wasn’t that bad, but mile 11 sucked. We passed a honeysuckle plant on the bridge and said to Lauren “that smell just made us realize how hungry we am.” Apparently we need to work on getting more fuel into our system because we crashed big time. Like Lauren said, no gas left in the tank. All in all, we got ‘er done.
Total Miles Week Five:
Me:24 miles
Mr. B: 24 miles
REFLECTION:
Me: Take care of your body. Sleep, eating the right kinds of food, and limiting the booze intake will greatly improve your performance. Sometimes we forget that we are not eighteen years old so when we have four glasses of wine the night before a long run and think everything will be fine, yeah…. it’s wishful thinking.
Mr. B: Coming back from running on flat ground and heading straight to the hills of Steamboat may have been a bad Idea. We have been fighting some stiffness in our soleus muscle on both legs since we got back and did a little googling. Apparently hills can aggravate these little devils. This muscle is where the Achilles attaches to the calf. When he gets tight, you can damage your Achilles. For us, the tight feeling usually goes away after a few miles, but this week it just didn’t and now we're paying the price. Time to give our legs a little R&R. Not a bad excuse to get a message though.
Catching up?
– prairie fire training week one
– prairie fire training short run: week two
– prairie fire training long run: week two
– prairie fire training short run: week three
– prairie fire training long run: week three
– prairie fire training short run: week four
– prairie fire training long run: week four
– prairie fire training short run: week five
