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January 18, 2007
Busy Day!
Happy Birthday to Alison today! My blog inspiration and my running friend extraordinaire. I hope you are having a fabulous day!!!
Today was a full day and now I am quite tired. The weather was back to normal today, about 22 degrees which felt good for running.
This morning I got up to go to the gym in the morning. I biked for a half hour easy. I just concentrate on cadence and put the bike at a really easy effort level. After spinning I lifted for twenty minutes. I just do upper body work and occasionally I do lunges if I am working with an athlete that I coach. I do the lunches to look more well rounded. However any leg work really tires me out for my runs. Getting up was hard but once I was up and eating my hot english muffin in the car with grape juice I felt good.
After school I ran with my coworker Mike. We have decided to try to run together every Thursday. We did the 8.5 mile loop that starts with a two mile up hill. The two mile up hill is tough but once you get to the top of the hill, the rest is all dirt roads with amazing views of Mt. Elmore, Mt. Mansfield, Hunger Mt., and maybe you can sometimes see Camel's Hump. It's really beautiful on a clear day. I felt sluggish on the uphill but after about three miles the run felt effortless. We ran a good pace and the conversation was good.
About a half hour later I met up with my friend Jen and we did the six mile route. My legs were beat from the first run but my energy was still good. We ran pretty easy but by the time we did this run I was much colder. After the run I surprised myself and actually went skiing for about a half hour. I did some classic skiing which is much easier for me than skate skiing. I am really horrible at skiing but I think I can improve greatly in classic skiing. I went skiing on the trails at school with my head lamp on. It was nice to be able to ski in the tracks. Now I am pretty tired and I really hope I won't be too tired for my runs tomorrow. We'll see!
Posted by mary at January 18, 2007 9:47 PM
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re birthday: Alison's Blog is redirected in the EliteRunning site, and that looks too formal for a birthday wish... so i'll do it here... most sincerely.. "Happy Birthday Alison!" (a fellow Capricorn... mine was Jan. 16 ...) a toast to your health and your endeavours :-)
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at January 19, 2007 9:12 AM
Awww...thanks for remembering! I think that being bad at skiing makes it an even better workout. Reading about your skiing makes me _almost_ wish that we had snow.
Posted by: Alison at January 19, 2007 1:32 PM