Addendum to last post

So that post was getting entirely too long but I am not finished :)

Sunday morning woke up bright and early to get to the SERC run. I had found out at the party that B was also running 16 so we had planned to do the 15 mile loop and add on a 1/2 mile out and back to get in our 16 while also tackling some Boston appropriate hills. A and DaisyDuc were planning on coming and running 8 so we had a small group of ladies out in extremely chilly weather. Weather.com claimed that it felt like -9 out but I think with the sun it felt warmer because I was a wee bit overdressed. I was extremely grateful for the balaclava that B let me borrow though because it was windy. The first 6 miles were pretty uneventful. We got to the water stop and there was no water, phooey! I guess it was too cold.

A and DaisyDuc turned off to finish out their 8 and B and I continued on. We stopped at a church to get some water and take our gels. Just after A and Daisy turned off the knee did the twinge again, grrr. I told B about it. She recommended doing knee strengthening exercises for the next few weeks, and of course icing. We decided we were going to take it easy up the hill just in case. HAH, surprise surprise there would be no attempts at tackling the hill that day anyways. Once we got off the main road onto the parkway it was like we entered winter wonderland. They had not plowed or salted at all. We pretty much just had to trudge up the hill. Once we got to the top we decided to bail on our plans to do the 15 loop because that would have been a lot more of the parkway and snow trudging. So we headed back to the bagel shop along the 12 and then did 2 miles out and back to finish up the 16. Google pedometer says it was 15.75 so we were averaging around 8:45-8:55 pace even with the slow hill.

Around mile 6 I noticed my ankle was a bit sore. I have no clue what I did to it, but it is still sore today, it is getting increasingly less painful though. I have been continuing to ice and have paid attention to it while walking and during workouts.

Last night I decided to brave the trainer even though I haven't received the replacement part yet. I wore my helmet just in case the bike did indeed come out of the trainer. That didn't turn out to be an issue. I did the first 50 minutes of the mental toughness spinerval. Let me tell you Coach Troy sucks! He is MEAN! No wonder I suck on the bike, I don't EVER push that hard! If I could I would just spin all day long :)

But I am glad I did the workout and I will be working up to the full 90 minutes soon. (Or it might have to wait till next winter if the weather warms up before my long rides start)

This morning David and I went out for a short wog before work, just 1.5 miles.

Tonight I need to get in a tempo run but that may have to get pushed to tomorrow. Last weekend was so full that I didn't get anything done around the house so laundry and dishes are piled a mile high.

I am currently without pool and pre Steelhead base prep started this week so I need to get on that. I am trying to get A to share her pass to Mayfield but I may end up over at CSU. $5 a drop in sounds reasonable to me. (plus $40 annually for master membership)