Robb's Running

Louisville and back in the saddle

Arrived in Louisville, and after not running for three days and after being cooped up in planes all day it was nice to get out for a few miles or so.  It was pretty humid, a heck of a lot more than i’m used to, but it was nice to get out there.

I saw a bridge I wanted to run on last year, and it is still being worked on!  What the heck! Oh well, I’ll run my trusty bridge tomorrow.

The cold is still lingering, but it didn’t seem to effect my running this afternoon. 

Anyway, the humidity rose with a thunderstorm coming and I just made it back to the hotel before the skies opened up.  

Start working tomorrow morning, so I’d like to get another short run before breakfast, and then another one in the afternoon.

OH, and then have a Gordon Biersch now at 4th Street Live, so I’m a happy boy. 

Bring out your dead!

The plague continues, and from the kids say, it’ll last about a week - JOY!

So screw it, I’ll go out for a run, even if it is the worst run ever, running will be had this afternoon.

I’m going to evict this little sucker once and for all!   Grrrr.

No need to join my pity party, move along and go run for me!

Being sidelined sucks.

Physically, I know I could run, but I go to take a deep breath, and I either cough up a storm, OR I start gasping for air, like I’m choking or something.

This plague I picked up hopefully will go soon, and I can get back to what I want to do - RUN.  

Really I’m surprised I don’t sick more often as I work in a petri dish of adolescent germs, and I haven’t been sick in quite a long time, but I seem to either get sick over Winter Break and now it seems the end of a semester.  Perhaps I let my guard down and the “germie’s” found a weak spot to infiltrate.  Damn them!  Damn them all to hell!

So I guess no trail run before I leave for Louisville, but I do have a whole summer, and the trail’s aren’t going anywhere.

So when I’m better I’ll be making up for lost time.  It’ll be doing double duty, core work, and whatever it takes to be unbreakable - unstoppable.

Forced Rest Day

Well it had to happen someday, and today was it.

That plague I thought I might be able to sweat out, beat out of me, well it decided to hang out for a while, and currently is in my chest, making it a tad hard to breath, so no trail run today, which is kind of a bummer as I was looking forward to it.  Maybe I’ll get a chance tomorrow.

So today is for resting.

I’ll make breakfast in a little while, it will be yummy!

A “nice easy 6” Saturday

Finally got a chance to meet up with Vera so we could talk about our upcoming 51K in August. Ran with the Galloway Group, and I didn’t care which interval group I was in as long as I got a chance to chit chat with Vera.  We talked strategy about how we should approach the run, and decided we’d break it up into four parts.

1. The 13 mile hill at the start.
2. The 7 mile downhill glide.
3. Making it to the 26.2 mark at Rachel.
4. The last 5 miles.

So we’ll start to getting our distances synced up, so we can be right on the money come race day. We also agreed the LRG (2 long 1 short - 3 week cycle) Approach would be what we’ll do.  Anyway, the run went by very fast, at a very easy pace. Good times.

Tomorrow I’ll go for an early morning “birthday” trail run, and then make a nice breakfast for Cassie and I.

Tonight though is sushi baby!!

Sigh!

Looks like a cold is coming on.  Heady, scratchy feeling at the back of the throat.  So, once I get out of work (we have finals, so early dismissal) I’ll get to the store to get some med’s, have some lunch and then nap the afternoon away, hoping this “thing” will vacate my body quick.