2-1 4k treadmill
2-2 7k easy
2-3 4k treadmill
2-4 4k treadmill
2-5 4k treadmill
2-6 7k slow
2-7 rest
2-8 7k sleasy
2-9 4k slow
2-10 rest
2-11 7k sleasy
2-12 7k sleasy
2-13 5k treadmill
2-14 4k treadmill
2-15 7k sleasy
2-16 7k sleasy
2-17 rest

February Total: 78k
February Goal: 140k

O glorious rest day!!! It's pouring rain, and a lot of our snow has melted overnight, due to the warm temperature and south wind.
@rheddmobile Thank you for the wonderful crackerdog explanation! Glad you're getting your medication sorted out.
I had to read the post by @SummerSkier twice to make sure she wasn't calling me an "old lady with character."

Rest day today. It's very windy outside; they're warning people to stay home if possible. We haven't seen any damage, hoping it stays that way.

Re: crackerdog 🥰 I read the James Herriot books as a kid as well. For a long time, I wanted to be a veterinarian.

My back feels totally fine today 🙂

@SummerSkier Having a race or something probably would help motivate me. Maybe I need to start looking. I would like to do the AF HM in real life, but who knows if it will happen or not. The last 2 years it hasn't and running it solo in 2021 (with help from @Teresa502 ) was not the best way to do a first HM. I'll have to research some other races and see what looks like fun to me.

@kgirlhart I'm so glad that you are back to normal.

Your pace amazes me @SummerSkier !

You are amazing @Teresa502 ! Maybe a race to look forward to is what I need. If it is the angle of the camera, you need to patent it.

@marisap2010 Sorry you had a scrappy run. I hope yesterday's was better.

@rheddmobile Glad you are getting the medication dialed in and hope you'll be back to your speedy running soon. Love the story of the little boy. Kids are so resilient and excited about doing new things.

Thanks @katharmonic . We can start anew together.

@polskagirl01 Glad your back is okay today!

The last two days I have gone for a 2.25 mile wun on the driveway. Yesterday's was between work and church in the afternoon. Today, I got up early so I could get it in before going to work at 12:00. I walked one lap and then ran the flat spots of the driveway and then walked another quarter mile for cool down...not that I needed it probably. Anyway, today I did run a little bit more and the 2nd mile, which was all wunning was about 30 seconds faster than yesterday's second mile. But, the overall time spent was one second slower today. LOL Oh, I did sort-of follow one of the suggestions. When I got up this morning, instead of leaving my PJs on, I did change into my running tights. I left the PJ top on just because I didn't want to put on a sports bra before I was ready to head out. But, having them on did help me not even think about backing out of the wun.

Still here but our internet is playing up - usual story with the internet provider insisting we do have service, even though we clearly don’t. It’s making my work incredibly difficult but it’s not their problem, it’s also cramping my social media life!

However, more importantly, I’m still running. My body was (relatively) great after my half (possibly because I took it so slowly) and I’ve had three runs since.

I hear ya @quilteryoyo about the lost mojo - I we through a big wobble recently, and have to admit I’m not fully back. For me, the key is to get out there anyway. It may not be pretty and it may be slow but, as they say, no one ever regretted going for a run.

Feb goal: 100 km

2/2: 8 km
2/4: 5.1 km
2/5: 12.1 km
2/9: 7.3 km
2/11: 5.7 km
2/14: 13.8 km
2/16: 8.1 km
2/18: 5.5 km

Total: 65.6 km

2-1 4k treadmill
2-2 7k easy
2-3 4k treadmill
2-4 4k treadmill
2-5 4k treadmill
2-6 7k slow
2-7 rest
2-8 7k sleasy
2-9 4k slow
2-10 rest
2-11 7k sleasy
2-12 7k sleasy
2-13 5k treadmill
2-14 4k treadmill
2-15 7k sleasy
2-16 7k sleasy
2-17 rest
2-18 5k treadmill
2-19 5k treadmill

February Total: 88k
February Goal: 140k

Had another couple of inches of snow overnight, so it was back to the treadmill. It still sucks...

2/1: 4.26 km
2/2: 3.46 km
2/3: 3.36 km
2/4: 3.21 km
2/5: 4.61 km
2/6: 3.63 km
2/7: 4.49 km
2/8: 2.76 km
2/9: 4.93 km
2/10: 3.34 km
2/11: 3.02 km
2/12: 6.00 km
2/13: Rest
2/14: 4.32 km
2/15: 2.85 km
2/16: 4.48 km
2/17: 2.94 km
2/18: 1.88 km
2/19: 6.33 km


February Total: 69.87 km
February Goal: 100 km

@rheddmobile - I also read all the James Herriot books and still have them in a boxed set. I had forgotten his cracker dog reference but knew it from somewhere.
@kgirlhart - Great shoe porn!
@quilteryoyo - glad you are getting som 'wuns'! Pretty sure you will be back to your regular runs before you know it and probably just in time for some lovely spring running!
@marisap2010 - Great job keeping the streak alive before going to FL! Hope you get to enjoy some warmer weather there.

Hope everyone on the eastern US (and south too?) avoid another big storm and those in the UK are all safe from the winds and storm there.
Believe it or not we are supposed to have lows in the low 30's - a shocking temp for us! Hope it doesn't damage my plants, especially the tangerines and oranges!

Out for a run with the pup and was hoping to be able to run more. Tripped on the sidewalk as we neared the trail and had to have my husband come and get me. It is never good to lead with your face when you fall. Next stop - urgent care. Good news is no stitches required, no broken teeth (though sore) and my Tifosi running sunglasses didn't break but have a pretty good scratch. Oh and no broken bones! I have a large cut on my cheekbone from those sunglasses, a very sore and swollen, cut up lip, a skinned and bruised knee (my leggings were undamaged??) and an arm I can barely move. Guess I braced myself with it before I hit my face! Kind of feel like I was hit by a truck but feel lucky there is nothing seriously wrong.

Tomorrow was going to be a yoga day but we will see how it goes. Monday's run will depend on how I am feeling.
Today's short one (yes, still counting my 1.5miles) brings me up to 51.81 miles out of 70.

@shanaber Ouch! Glad nothing is broken, feel better soon!

Two days off. Took an extra rest day because it was chilly and also because I did lots of lifting on leg day. I finally got my 200 lb deadlift! This was a yearly goal in 2019, but then I ruptured my baker’s cyst and had to stop deadlifting for a while, made it a goal for 2020 and had to stop going to the gym because of Covid, then in 2021 I ended up not pushing my lifting because I wasn’t getting enough sleep due to caring for my mom and felt like I was courting injury lifting on no sleep, and also the max weight that would fit on my home bar was 180. So I just kept lifting lighter and lighter which is the opposite of the way it’s supposed to work! Got a proper set of weights for Christmas, decided to focus on lifting while I got my heart issues sorted, and finally made my goal! Next goal is 222 which will officially put me in the “advanced” category compared to other women of my age and weight. (200 is intermediate.)

Today, ran 5k and walked 5k on the Germantown nature area trails. I’m still sorting out my dosage of beta blockers. On these particular trails I don’t usually run very fast but I have had one heart episode there due to hills. So I decided better safe than sorry, and went with the one quarter dose, slightly less than last time since the pill broke unevenly. So today I took the smaller bit. Trying to see how small a dose I can take and still have it be effective. Well… this is clearly not an exact science, because “slightly less than a quarter” seems like still more meds than I need - heart rate topped out at 151 on my final sprint uphill, and most of the run was well under 138. That’s about 10-15 beats slower than normal for me for the level of effort. My legs were burning like crazy from lack of oxygen going up hills. In fact it felt more like the time I took a half dose than the time I took a quarter dose. It’s not timing of when I took it, since in all cases I am taking it on an empty stomach exactly four hours before my run (max effectiveness supposedly reached at 3 hrs and half-life is about 9.)

It wasn’t a bad run, in fact it was quite doable, it was just more heart rate suppression than I probably needed and would have been easier with a higher heart rate. Since the last time I did this run at this pace, pre-meds, I had an episode of tachycardia, it’s definitely an improvement, just not optimal. It remains to be seen if my body will eventually adjust to less oxygen.

I’m kind of weirded out that I’m taking maybe a fifth of the smallest pill size sold now and it seems like more than enough medication? What happens if I drop to one eighth, will it still work? I should do some reading and find out what clinical studies have found about the smallest clinically effective dose. As slow as my resting heart rate is, I am still dropping into the top end of 130’s at rest, so I definitely want to keep the dose tiny for that reason too!