[/caption]I don't know why but for some reason I like taking photos of training food; must be the pretty colors. A couple of side notes: I miss the old packaging of the Clif Bloks. Those particular flavor Clif Bars are what I'd take to a deserted island for the rest of my life. The Honey Stinger things are questionable.
After the long run Thursday I had a little muscle pain in my lower right leg, like from the knee down to and hooking under my ankle on the outside of the leg. It was that tendonitis ache-type pain. It was bad enough that it kept me from sleeping well. I was nervous/angry about it but then remembered a line from some ultra site about ultra humor. A woman wrote that the day after her husband ran a 100 mile race he was hobbling down the stairs, swollen joints, no toenails and he stopped in front of her and said, "I have this pain in my ankle and I can't figure out why."
Of course I'm going to have little aches and not feel 100% after a marathon distance run over technical trails. After taking a day off (yesterday) I headed out to do the same 17 mile route I did last Friday. It went well and I actually ran it five minutes faster at an easier perceived effort. No pains anywhere. I was a little sluggish for the first ten minutes but then loosened up and rolled at a comfortable but quick pace.
Tomorrow I plan to head down to Morrison and the Mt. Falcon trails. I haven't run there since '08 and always enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to it. This should end up being another decent week of higher mileage (for me) done over few (5) runs.
That's BS. On our run the other day all you ate was hot dogs and squeeze cheese.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have any choice because SOMEBODY forgot all the food in his truck... Running with amateurs, what can you expect.
ReplyDeleteHa! Ya. OK. I did drop that ball.
ReplyDeleteThose Honey Stinger blocks are pretty good - never tried the CliffBloks yet - how are those? Another solid week of training in - feeling pretty good about Miwok?
ReplyDeleteSteve, I hope you're joking about the Bloks. They are the best!! Get the Margarita flavor.
ReplyDeleteFeeling great about Miwok and looking forward to running it. Let me know what you guys are up to next week for running and maybe we can get together.
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Seriously never have tried the Cliff ones - I only recently started to experiment with the blocks, mostly the GU version. Kathleen loves those Honey Stingers - BTW, they are Gel of The Month at REI right now - 79 cents a piece.
ReplyDeleteWe'll let you know about next weekend. Planned to do Cheyenne Mtn today if the fog ever lifts.
REI's silly marketing works on even the most jaded consumers; that's why I decided to try them out in limited quantity. I personally like the Bloks the best because I can get the best salt content out of the Margarita flavored ones AND they taste good, even after several during a long race.
ReplyDelete"Cheyenne Mtn" -sounds cool. I'm still not certain what I'm doing. May just end up running here again.
Enjoy the day!
We're going to Greenland - sun is out there!
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