Week In Review

Here's a recap of my running lately.  Not much in the past two weeks.

 Family illnesses and Mrs. Runner recovering from surgery have put heavy running on the back burner, as can be expected. Everything will be fine though. Mrs. Runner's goal is to train for a Half and I'll be happy to help her achieve it, and as long as my girls are healthy I'm a happy camper. I'm still trying to work out details so I can run the Mercedes Half Marathon.

Wednesday - 2 miles at the local YMCA run at a slightly faster than normal training pace. It felt wonderful. There is a flat, shaded gravel trail that follows a creek and bends around some playing fields. It's a short, peaceful loop and a calm place to run without head phones. I rarely run without them. Except this time. I was a dummy and mistakenly left them at home. I'm good like that!

Friday - 4 miles on the treadmill broken into a 5k at my Half pace and a 1 mile cool down. I'm not a fan of treadmills. I know they have their place, especially in crappy weather conditions and they help with pacing but I find myself getting bored extremely fast while using one. But Lala had swim practice and I wanted to get in a few miles so this had to do.

Sunday - 13.1 miles - Trial run on the Mercedes course with water/Gu stops provided by The Trak Shak (thanks, Val!) I didn't plan on running the entire course given the tiny amount of miles lately. I thought if I could make it to 5 Points South I'd head downhill at 20th St., cruise back to Linn Park

and be satisfied with the effort. That's when I noticed a bunch of people continuing on and I blindly followed along like the lemming I am. I'm glad I did, but felt stiff and sore afterwards. I needed to hit the foam roller post-run but when I broke it out this is what happened. Future runner, imo!

So, since rolling the old legs was out of the question I made a killer Bacon, Tomato and Cheddar Chowder soup instead. I guess the recipe and steps on how to make it should be my next post? How did your running go this past week?  Do your kiddos commandeer your rollers too? Here's hoping our paths cross sometime soon on a run!