I wanted to title this post “my a$$ hurts”, but thought that wasn’t necessarily what people would want to see on their blog rolls and in their readers.
This morning when I dropped off Jones at school, I commented that I needed to get Shoo to early drop off to take advantage of the beautiful day. She looked at me like I’d grown an extra head. Why? Because it was about 60 degrees, grey, and drizzly. As I said, a beautiful day for a long run. ;o)
I dropped off Shoo and headed out on my run. I was in a wonderful mood. My legs felt great. My butt was complaining with every step. What the heck was up with that? I ran a fast five miles yesterday evening (9:08, 8:45, 8:39, 8:28, 8:16) on a pretty hilly route and I did a ton of laundry and cleaning. Oddly, my butt was sorer from that than it was from racing the Army 10 miler.
Despite the soreness (which slowed me way down), I had a nice run. I finished the 8 miles in 1:18:19, with negative splits. I’ve been working really hard lately to start slow and finish fast and that seems to be really coming together.
After my run, the clouds went away and it warmed up to the high 60s. I was glad I was done with my run, as it was now a truly beautiful day, but I liked running in the cool much better. Am I the only weirdo who trains hard over the winter and just tries to maintain during the summer?
My parents just flew in for the weekend and we’ll be celebrating Shoo’s birthday, as well as Halloween and dad and I are running an 8k, so I may be MIA for a few days. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to post some pics from the festivities, but if not, have a happy and safe Halloween!
Nice job on the runs! Gotta love the negative splits.
Isn't this Fall weather awesome?! Great job on your run! On the Runner's World website they mention that successful marathoners often utilize the negative split strategy. You've got it! Have fun this weekend!
I love when my butt is sore… it makes me feel like it might be shrinking. :pGreat job on your run! Have a fun time with your parents and birthdays, and Halloween!
I like the cooler weather too, especially for the longer runs.
A sore butt is a muscled butt 🙂 Have a fun halloween!
I agree with you 100%! Yesterday's overcast gray coolness was perfect running weather :)And I'm liking your thoughts – maintain during the hot sloggy summer months, & use the cold weather to speed up.
I love running in the warm rain, too!! Although, I have to admit that all this rain is squashing my motivation…good thing I'm in a taper!Re: the butt, make sure you stretch that out! Sit on a tennis ball!
I could title today's post "My a$$ hurts" as well – went to Spin for the first time in months last night. Ouchie. Have fun this weekend! Looking forward to seeing the pics. Good luck to you and Dad at the race.
Great job!Enjoy the holiday weekend with all of your planned festivities!
I totally would have titled it my ass hurts 🙂 Great job on the running and hopefully the butt pain goes away! Have a great weekend!
Must be that time of year or in the water or something. After yesterday's "Interval Blast" workout my butt has dclared a state of emergency.Have a fun weekend!
I wanted to title this post "my a$$ hurts", but thought that wasn't necessarily what people would want to see on their blog rolls and in their readers.PFFFTTTT!1! WRONG!1!This is exactly what I want to see in my reader!What I don't want to see is, "I hurt it doing laundry" or some such other PG-rated cause for the @$$-pain because [sarcasm] O, man, that is SOOOO hawt [/sarcasm].So I guess it's just as well you didn't title this post "my @$$ hurts."But if you ever give an NC-17 blog post some innocuous title and I skip it because the title misleads me, I will be SO p*ssed at you, sister!
Great job on your run! Have a great weekend. 🙂
I definitely train harder in the winter, it is just impossible to improve in the heat in my opinion. I hope the sore booty is feeling better!
I am just working on even splits! What a great run! I'm excited to hear about your back to back half-marathon races. I think you definitely should write your own training plan.