
My training has been lighter this week. Slightly less mileage. No Tuesday Tempo. But wait! Friday intervals! A good workout! Check it out!
I woke up this morning to the ‘pitter patter’ of rain outside. It wasn’t coming down too hard, and since the roads looked fine, I chose to run in the rain.
My warm up ended up being a little longer than planned. I needed to get to Huffines Park so that I had a good path for my intervals. The roads were not slick anymore from the rain, but there were still some muddy spots that were hard to see.
By the eighth interval, my legs felt tired, but they also felt like they could keep going forever. My rest pace was not my normal rest pace. I didn’t feel the need to slow down a whole lot. After the last set of 4, I cut out the ‘cool down,’ because I had my actual 3 mile cool down to run. Past the McDonalds. Past the cars stuck in traffic. Past the Police Station. Past the house with the never ending construction. And back home. 11 miles done.
I downed a glass of milk, and then headed back out the door to walk out the heaviness in my legs!
I have 3 easy miles to run this afternoon, an easy 6 miles tomorrow, and another 20 miler on Sunday. I can’t wait!
I hope everyone is having an awesome Friday!
Did you have a killer workout today? Let me know!
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Nice running. Well done. Sounds like a good session
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Thanks, Tony! : )
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Nice work! My workouts are infants compared to yours. I’ll get there one day.
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Thanks!
Five years ago I never would have thought I would be running this much. Keep it up!
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Sounds like a great workout. Well done for getting out in the rain. It was torrential here this morning, so I put off my run until after work, by which point it was sunny 😎
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Good call! The rain was not coming down too hard, but it was steady enough to get soaked!
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Plus I knew my new shoes would arrive this afternoon and I wanted to run in them before London! There’s something satisfying about doing a hard run in the rain ☔️
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That is worth waiting for! I’ve never run in Brooks before.
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When I started running back in 2015 I went to the local running store and had a gait analysis done. They recommended Brooks shoes and I’ve run in them ever since
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I know several runners that love Brooks! They need to come out with a super light racing flat then I will give them a try!
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I had a killer rest day today. I’ve done NOTHING. I should be well rested for my fastish 15 tomorrow at 5:15am sharp.
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Killer rest days are good too. Enjoy your 15! : )
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Thanks Amanda for inspiring me to get back into doing some of my training barefoot! A 5 mile “fartlek” run (not really a fartlek . . . more like your interval training) barefoot and in the rain Wednesday evening. 8-1/2 miles total.
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That’s awesome! The rain felt was so nice to run in this week! When you run barefoot, do you run on the trail, grass, road..?
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This week, mostly on grass in a park, some on a football field, and a couple of miles on a track. I need to get the feet tough again before running on any rough asphalt roads or dirt/gravel trails!
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A football field sounds perfect! No more gravel trails for me. : )
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Amanda, football fields are great! I try to also do some barefoot running on more difficult surfaces like concrete and asphalt to toughen up my feet, which eventually helps me to do two things: (1) improve my running form (I used to be a “heel striker”, and (2) be able to run barefoot on most any surface, including racing barefoot. Some athletic tracks are very rough.
I have run (at least) several hundred miles barefoot the past three years, and have found that it is best to very gradually increase the mileage and very gradually increase the roughness of the running course. About once a month I like to get (or almost get) just some very small blisters; then, when they heal, the foot is tougher than ever! That has been my experience anyway.
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I do some track workouts barefoot and I run on concrete barefoot if its relatively smooth. I’ve repeated the blister, toughen up process too however, after that one barefoot race I took a break from it because my feet got more than just a few blisters. I have scars on one foot from that. (I should have stopped).
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