Had my last yoga foundations class tonight. It was a true beginners class but I definitely picked up some great tips for transitions and modifications for the flows. I do feel more confident and will definitely try some different types of classes now.
Listen, if almost 7 years ago you’d told me I’d be training for my second marathon I would have laughed. It took. And yes, I do have a lot of pride in it. You just feel better about yourself.
Moving is hard work, Bromfield - we told D that we were out of the moving business!
If anyone needs some inspiration- here is a great account of the Oiselle runner (the one in the new skirt) at Western States 100. It’s a good read. I really can’t imagine…
And full of pride you should be Sabaray. The challenges we set up for ourselves often make us stronger in more way s than one - I think if you read back to the beginnings of this thread you would see a little different Sabaray - still a great one - but now, more confident, eager and determined. That goes a long way in life.
It was sunny and gorgeous today! I wanted to get out at lunch, but had an urgent project. Some folks need personal attention and tiptoeing around them. Dealing with science is easy! Dealing with the public - even with sophisticated public - is hard. I have no idea how you lawyers deal with difficult clients!
I had a GREAT run this morning. 59 degrees, 94% humidity felt great - got to add some strides to my workout (which I probably overdid but oh well). Beautiful morning and Strava tells me my time on this route is improving!
I definitely feel it in my hamstrings the day after Pilates. My beloved trainer is on vacation so I won’t have a session with her for several weeks but I’ve signed up for some reformer classes. Won’t be the same, but better than nothing. I think I will do some hot yoga as well - I did enjoy that previously and I will have time to fit it in.
MOWC, just want to say that you have been a huge influence on my running efforts. I think you should be an Oiselle sponsored athlete! Loved that story about the Western 100. I need to store that in my memory bank for when I really need it.
Thanks, sabaray. I am in Oiselle’s ambassador program (called Oiselle Volee) and so is my daughter. We get some discounts and free things and first crack at new product. We like that it is a women-run company and we like the sponsored athletes (the pros) like Kara Goucher and Lauren Fleshmann.
I had a good 4 mile run last night. It was 15 degrees cooler than the night before and what a huge difference that made! No run tonight, though, as I’m meeting up with some friends I haven’t seen in a long time.
I need to do a better job with strength training. For a couple years I had been working out with a trainer at the gym twice a week and felt very good that it was doing great things for me. But in the past year due to schedule conflicts I have had to cut back to once a week and I know that just isn’t enough. I know that I should be able to work out once a week on my own to get the same benefits but somehow I can’t bring myself to do it I use that extra time for more running but I know that I would be better off getting another strength training session in. It’s just stupid.
MOWC - that story about the Western 100 is incredible. I can’t wrap my head around running that kind of a race. And the enormous support team behind the runner. Just amazing.
I had the drier, cooler temps this morning, too! 69 but pretty and dry. It felt good.
Western States and Leadville 100 are sort of the Holy Grail of ultra-marathons. I don’t think I could stay awake that long, much less RUN for that long!
Well, after four weeks of a daily run, and spending yesterday feeling like maybe it was all too much, I went to last night’s all-comers track meet (think a hundred kids, some parents, and me, the token old lady) and scrubbed 22 seconds off my mile time from the week before–down to 9:04. In 80 degree heat, with half the track in the sun and half in the shade. And I was not last. I beat two kids and their dad. (I was 30th.)
I think my H and D passed on their summer cold to me. I started popping some echinacea yesterday in an attempt to head it off - often works for me. I could have slept for hours this morning but work beckoned so at work I am. Not feeling too bad. Hopeful that the cold will have a short stay.
That is great, dmd! My bet is that you can run it even faster in cooler temperatures! But most importantly, kudos for showing up and being a good example to the youngsters. Someone has to be the oldest, right?
Take care, abasket. Fingers crossed your cold is short-lived.
sabaray- Glad you had a good run and could finally put the strides in!
dmd- Excellent! Way to show up and race! Those all-comers races are fun. I haven’t done one in many years, and it would feel a lot different at my age now than when I was tuning up for corporate nationals in my late 20s/early 30s. I love watching the kids run (as long as it isn’t MY kid). We’ve talked about this before and Ohio and I commiserated, but I just remembered watching my son at the end of his junior year in HS racing in an extremely important championship track meet called Easterns. It was somewhere in CT, I think. He was winning the mile and looked great- and then he stepped off the track with an asthma attack. Ugh. It was so disappointing. We had flown up from Dallas and his coach from his NJ boarding school was with us. Poor kid wasn’t OK the rest of the day. Track is nerve-wracking. You have to run FAST!
Michael (and others)- is what I call the “superman” pose a good exercise to do? You lie on your stomach and extend arms out in front and lift arms, legs and chest off the floor as much as you can. I saw something today recommending it for runners to strengthen back and glutes.
I do that exercise and variations of that almost every week in Pilates, MOWC - it has really helped with my back strength! Just be careful with your neck.
MOWC - for whatever it’s worth, the pilates classes that I do often have that exercise (though they’re also doing it with resistance, as either arms or legs are in straps).
Similar ones are one where you are on your hands and knees and extend right arm / left leg then switch, which you can do on the floor. Or for extra fun and shaking, do on top of a pilates reformer box with legs in straps.
There’s also floor bow pose in yoga, where you are lying flat, bend your legs towards your bottom, then reach out and grab your feet from the outside, and pull up so you’re trying to rock on your tummy.
I will leave it to MNK to discuss what each of these poses do. I am not qualified
Dealing with science is easy! Dealing with the public - even with sophisticated public - is hard. I have no idea how you lawyers deal with difficult clients!