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I am on vacation in Breckenridge, CO this week trying to recover from the craziness that was my 50K. Went for some PT on Tuesday to try to get the swelling down in my calves and feet and got these cool boots with water compression for 15 minutes. They felt great but the numbness in my toes is still there. Also bought some…

We are in Breckenridge. The place we went dog sledding was between Breckenridge and Frisco. We've gone a couple of times now and my 9 year old son is now quite the pro. He was able to bring the dogs down a big hill and around a couple of scary turns. On one of them we were headed right for a tree but he saved it at the…

Congrats on the races this weekend everyone! Finally a report on my 50K from Saturday! Was too tired Saturday night and then we flew to Colorado for spring break on Sunday (and did some dog sledding on Sunday!). The OPSF5050 is billed as the "Toughest Race in Indiana" and it certainly lived up to its name on Saturday.…

Good luck to the END-SURE runners! Sounds like your run is going to be interesting too! 50K a "shorter" race. :lol: Plenty long enough for me right now.

It is great that you got this figured this out. I wonder if B12 is a part of my low ferritin issue that I discovered recently. I've start supplementing B12 as well as the iron so I am hoping that it turns around! It is good to know there is a reason and the fatigue isn't just from getting old. :smile: Congrats on signing…

Light week this week as I've been resting my sore foot hoping that it is ready for the 50K on Saturday. Current forecast is an inch of rain and windchills in the mid 20s. Maybe not quite as epic as some of your races, but epic enough for me! Hopefully snow won't keep me from getting to the race location! Mar 1 P90X class…

I've gotten hissed at too! Missed all of you-I have been super busy at work and with kid stuff (concerts) and tapering (and cutting out the strength classes) in anticipation of my big race on Saturday. My foot has been acting up again and the weather forecast is looking pretty nasty for it too (rain, snow, wind) on an…

Yesterday my calves were really tight from the hills on Sunday. Water walking helped a bit, but I should have stretched and foam rolled last night but too tired to get my lazy butt out of the chair. Crazy morning today trying to get my son to orchestra, my car to the garage, and me to PT and still get in a workout. Got a…

@amymoreorless Good race despite the problems! How frustrating! @sarahthes Congrats on pushing through to the finish! @polskagirl01 Congrats on mastering those hills. I need to work on that myself! So today I finally got to preview the course for my 50K on March 24, and it is going to be a bear! I only did 14 miles and…

Boo. It isn't compatible with the Fenix 3 either! :(

@PastorVincent I missed the whole conversation about the Star Trek watch face! My son is so jealous because it won't work on his Forerunner 15. I think I am going to have to download it for my Fenix 3 though! I've been a slacker on my running this week--letting my sore hamstring recover a bit before my 10K race this…

My big goal for March is to run the hilly OPSF50/50 50K, but most of March will be a taper month (with a week of vacation at the end with hopefully some snowshoeing and dogsledding if I survive the 50K :smile:). I think the current plan is about 120 mi, give or take. I also want to start going to two strength training…

@7lenny7 That looks like quite the epic race! I am afraid that is what my 50K in 3.5 weeks is going to look like.... I water walked and did my body weight exercises on Monday (and foam rolled while watching a movie at night with my son). This morning I did my first circuit training class (a lot of cross fit and body weight…

Congrats to all the racers this weekend! I am 405 posts behind so I am just going to declare social media bankruptcy! My week ended up being kind of light (36.5 mi) but with some added body weight and cadence speed work on several days. My son had two evening concerts this week, so I ended up bailing on my Wednesday run,…

I've been gone a long time! But I've been running--about 6 weeks out from my 50K. Mileage has been good but hamstring is still bothering me. After sharing the asymmetry in my ground contact time with my therapist, she worked on one of my legs more this week and the symmetry was looking a bit better after that. Yoga twice a…

I hate the gym. My PF hates the gym too. Did 6 mi on the 1/8th mi indoor track (all in the same direction), 60 min hill workout on the dreadmill, 60 min hilly power hike on the dreadmill, and 15 min on the stairclimber, and another mile or so on the track. Got in another .75 mi or so on my aborted ice runs. At least I…

Grrr...two attempts to run today thwarted by ice. First attempt in the park (that I thought would be better than the road but wasn't), second on the roads (which were mostly OK and then I'd hit a sheet of ice that was indistinguishable from the wet). Off to attempt to cobble together some facsimile of part or all of my 20…

Congratulations @BruinsGal_91, @RunsOnEspresso, and @skippygirlsmom on your race results! Also congrats to @PastorVincent on getting your wife shoes that fit! I tried out my springy brand new out of the box Altra Escalantes on a nice flat bike trail for 10 mi and managed my second fastest 10 miler and 15K since I've been…

Got out in the Nature Park after and before work the last two days. Both days there was a light coating of snow (about an inch) so a little slippery on the uphills and downhills, but not too bad. Did 8 mi on Wednesday and another 4 mi this morning after my PT appointment (more scraping and manual manipulation of the…

I am hoping to do the 50 miler at the Indiana Trail! Maybe see you there! My schedule is also pretty aggressive (though not as aggressive as yours :smile:) . I am going to hold off registering for some of them until I make it through my 50K (and maybe the spring trail marathon).

Congrats to all the HM'ers this past weekend! @_nikkiwolf_ I think you are right to flag those sorts of numbers. My 9 year old son who has a Garmin Forerunner 15 was messing around with it and managed to get "records" in all sorts of distances while we were driving from the East Coast over the holidays. He was finally…

@simcon1 I used to take water on every length run, but last summer when I was coming back from injury I got used to walking for an hour without water and then as I built in running, I just kept not taking water for anything under an hour. Yesterday I managed (granted, it was cold out) to run 10 mi without food or water and…

@_nikkiwolf_ I need to do that too. Maybe trying to post that stuff here would be good motivation. Just remembered that Feb only has 28 days. May need to adjust that goal down despite the ramp up toward my 50K. It was cold and cloudy and windy here today (snow overnight tonight!). I dropped my son off for a youth running…

Thanks! I might just need to look at that. I've struggled with finding shoes that are low drop, wide in the toe box but narrow in the heel so those sound like they might do the trick as well. I've been frustrated with the longevity of the sides of the Altras--I seem to split through the fabric on the fronts of my…

Ran 6 miles in the Nature Park this morning a bit faster than I intended. I wasn't looking at my watch and when I got to the end I had run it in under 55 min at about a 9 min pace. Not my intention on a hilly trail run (not technical) with a tweaked hamstring the day after a speed workout. Guess I'll be foam rolling a lot…

Feb goal: 140 mi Other major goal: get my hamstring tweak and other lingering injuries under control before the 50K! Upcoming races: Bound the Mound Half Marathon Feb 24 OPSF 50/50 50K Mar 24 2018 Spring Plan: Spring Fling 10K Mar 3 DINO Eagle Creek 15K Apr 7 April 28 Glacial Esker 20 mi Apr 28 DINO Muscatuck 15K May 5 DWD…

Wow! I am way behind again. Started the semester up again and haven't had time to properly catch up. I water walked on Monday, got in a quick 4 miler on Tuesday in the middle of the work day, and then left early today with the idea of getting in an intermediate length run. Unfortunately I was short on time so I decided to…

I think the summer one at Eagle Creek is on the same course (though I haven't run it before). I did run Geist a few years ago when I first got back to running a few years after my son was born. Neat course, though I am almost exclusively running trail races now. My son is actually going to go to a youth running clinic put…

My PT also is giving me a bunch of gluteus medius exercises, but she hasn't gotten to side plank with hip abduction. I can barely do a side plank--I can't even imagine! I think I need to show my PT some of the data in my Garmin- now that I got a heart rate monitor I feel like it showing me much more including the fact that…

Picked up my son after school today, and we went for a 4 miler on the trails in the local park. It was a total mudfest (and a slow slog at times), but a fun time nonetheless. Feeling a bit more optimistic about trying to do 16 miles this weekend. Definitely going to take the rest day tomorrow to prepare though. Jan 1…