The 36 hour trick

Wednesday, August 22nd

6:30 PM - 9.5 Miles - 60 min
Fells - Lower res to middle res (from Bellevue)

So I did what I like to call the 36 hour trick today. Yesterday, I was feeling a little sluggish and just did an easy morning run. Today instead of going out for my run in the morning when my legs were still feeling a little heavy, I waited until this evening to run and give my legs about 36 hours of rest. This definitely made a difference as I felt well rested on the run and was able to cruise through the fells feeling great and running a little further than planned. The cool thing about this is I get a day and a half rest without actually taking a day off from running. Not that taking a day off is a terrible thing, it's just nice when you don't have to do it. I remember talking about this a few months back with one of my teammates and I remember her reply vividly... she said, "You know you've gotten serious about your running when you start talking about how many hours of rest your getting between runs instead of how many days". I guess this means we're gettin serious. Meanwhile, the weather has been phenomenal here; absolutely perfect running conditions. I've been reading some blogs from the athletes in Osaka and all they talk about is how miserably hot and humid it is there. I'm certainly glad we're not dealing with that here... as most of you know, I tend not to fair well in the sticky conditions.

On a side note, I figured out what my regular work schedule is gonna be like. I think it works pretty well around everything that I'm doing and I encourage anyone reading this to come by and visit me at any of the times listed below. It can get kinda slow in the evenings sometimes so it would be great to have visitors.

Starting Sept 3:
Mon 10-7
Tue 10-4
Thu 10-4
Fri 10-7
Sat 12-5


Quote of the Day:

"We've got a great day, a little wind, 65 degrees, 30 percent chance of rain, and a 100 percent chance of pain!"
- Andrew Carlson