Tuesday and Wednesday Runs

Tuesday
Conditions: 80 degrees, nice
Ran pumpkin trail 2 times, then 1/2 of lower witchlands, felt very good

Wednesday
Conditions: 80 degrees, Very Very Nice
Met Gary at Umstead, did fartlek run, very fun run, we each had 5 "gos", upon go we ran very fast for one minute. My fastest Company Mill run to date. 52:45, awesome run, going to try and do these every Wednesday. Showed me a couple of things, that I could run longer and faster than I think I can.

Last Long Run

Sunday
Conditions: 80 degrees, Very Nice
After some complications getting started, put in 3 hours on the trails, felt very strong, should/could have done 30 more minutes but I ran out of time, I'll just have to hope I'm ready.

Thursday and Freaky Friday

Thursday
Conditions: 90 degrees, hot, not so nice
Company Mill trail at umstead

Friday
Coniditions: 80 degrees, nice
Squonk and Gilly, pumpkin trail, crossed over, took jungleland, back to wackus' way, to angel, wrapped around, back down, over to perimeter, rode teeter totter for the first time, back to perimeter, mohican, back, very very nice ride.

Tuesday run, out of town treadmill run

Am traveling for work and yesterday I found myself in Bethesda, Maryland, which really meant running on the treadmill at the Holiday Inn Select in Bethesda. It reminded me of my first 1/2 marathon training, the Columbia River Gorge, as I trained exclusively on a treadmill. In fact much of NY training was done in World gym in Stamford. THANK GOD for warmer weather and trail running.

I did manage to squeeze 6 miles off the treadmill, I also remembered how obsessed with pace/time and speed one can become on a treadmill, what the heck else do you have to pay attention to? Which got me thinking, it would be nice to have a watch that accurately tracks pace/speed/distance, might as well through gps in while I'm at it. Ideally I would like something that I can use on my bike as well. I seem to notice most folks use something from Garmin. I will have to start researching this to decide if I want to invest.

Trailheads Saturday run

Conditions: 75, Sunny, Very nice

Met Matthew, Bobcat and Gilly for 7am start, ran 2 hours, nice run, almost done with Marathon training

By the way, here is where we run the majority of the time.

Thirsty Thursday and Freaky Friday

Thursday, Conditions: 90 degrees, hot humid, not nice
Ran Thirsty Thursday run with Snally, Wort and Gumby, slower pace than normal, kicked my butt.

Friday, Conditions: 80 degrees, nice
Went to ride with Gilly, flat tire, patched in no time and met up with Bobcat, Gilly and Booda, great ride, Bobcat kept a very fast pace.

Wednesday Run

Conditions: Not everyday I get to write this, Hurricane (Opehlia), rain and wind

Decided to skip a true speed workout this week and do a modified hill/tempo run. I'm getting less and less worried about the hills in Maine. Ran from Community Center, up Franklin St, down Hillsborough St, up Airport, back down Estes to Community Center

4.5 miles, 40 minutes.

Monday run

Conditions: 89 humid, nice

went for a nice 6 mile run on the Creeper Trail, ran slightly faster than my targeted marathon pace, so did the 6 miles is about 52 minutes. Felt pretty strong, nice run

Long Long Run Wilmington

Conditions: 70 degrees, windy, sunny, very nice

We are spending the weekend at Wrightsville Beach this weekend and I decided to see if I could find any local trails for running my 20 miles this Saturday. Through the help of www.sirbikesalot.com, I was able to get directions and a trail map of the UNC-W trails. Not exactly Umstead or CHHS, but any trails are better than none.

I headed out around 6:40 and found the UNC-W and after a bit of driving around found the trails. That is one dead campus on a weekend, also strange how everything is confined in one area. The trails were VERY confusing, all sand and pine straw. After an hour of winding around, more spider webs than I can count and a few stray dogs, I was ready to call it quits and hit the roads, but I finally found a nice 30 minute loop and ran that enough times to get my 3 hours in. I was really tired at the end of this run and will really have to hit another 22 and/or 24 miler if I hope to run MDI.

Wednesday Ride

Conditions: 85 degrees, sunny, Very very nice

Met Dave at Lake Crabtree for our first ride at Rocky Road.

This trail KICKED our butts, there are some steep up and downs but it was the rocks/roots on the ups that got me. This trail really humbled me and I will definitely have to go back out and ride this again.



Thursday morning, nice 53 minute run on the Creeper trail, a bit hotter than normal, good run but it really hurt me.

At the beach now, running 20 tomorrow around unc-w trails.

Weekend

What a great weekend, perfect weather, nice breeze and just an all around great Labor Day. Beth and I got out Sunday for a nice ride around the Pumpkin Trail, I then rode Neverland and Witchlands, very nice.

Monday I went out for a nice run, ran from here straight to the bridge, took about 35 minutes, felt very good today, super weather and a nice run.

Saturday Trailhead Run

Conditions: 70 degrees, Very Nice

Went on a nice 1:30 minute trail run with the trailheads. Did a great job of keeping up with anyone, very nice run and day.

Thirsty Thursday

Conditions: 90 degrees, Very Hot, humid

Nice turnout for Thirsty Thursday, I was not feeling 100% and my run showed it, very tough to finish but I ran the loop in 55 minutes.