Today’s Run – Recovery Run
Total Mileage: 7.00 miles
Total Time: No idea (went without my Garmin!)
Average Pace: No idea (went without my Garmin!)
Happy Friday!
I had a nice slow recovery run this morning. My husband surprised me by running most of it with me. Secretly it helps him to break his run up too, but I will NEVER turn down a chance to run with him!
The Chicago Marathon is coming up for him in several weeks and he has a pretty tough 15 mile pace run tomorrow, so it was important that he take things slow as well.
He got me a guest pass to our gym so I think I am going to use it tomorrow and run my tough long run beside him during his pace run.
I have noticed a lot of my favorite bloggers doing a Five Things Friday post, so I will jump on board and share with you five things I am loving this Friday!
1. Garminless Runs
One of the best things about today was that I ran without my Garmin and my music. It has been a long time since I have completely “disconnected.”
This wasn’t completely on purpose, for some reason my Garmin didn’t charge over night and was low on battery this morning.
That’s right, I left my precious Garmin charging at home.
My husband had his Garmin on during the run so I know we covered a total of 5.4 miles together and then he kept going and I turned off to finish at 7 miles back at our house.
2. Fall is back!
After 2 days of 90 degree weather it was so nice to have fall back! It was in the 50’s today.
I even broke out my long tights for today’s run. I could have easily gone without them but I wanted to sweat a bit!
I started with arm sleeves and I still can’t believe I am already breaking them back out.
I opted for the long sleeve in the end and I was glad I did because the wind was a bit crazy at times.
3. Muscle Stimulator
My calf has been really giving me problems the past couple days.
I have foam rolled and stretched it but it still seems to be tight and bothersome.
I attached my husband’s muscle stimulator, that he bought when he had his sacral stress fracture a couple years ago, when I finished my run and I am hoping this will help it to recover a bit better for tomorrow’s run!
I also wore my compression sleeves under my tights to help to compress my calf some during the run. I will probably live in them all night long as well.
4. Banana Fro-Yo
This awesome girl reminded me of this great treat last night when I was really craving something sweet.
If you don’t already know I have a serious frozen yogurt addiction, and this is a great way to beat the craving and it still tastes just as delicious!
All you do is add 1 frozen banana, a small amount of almond milk, and a tiny scoop of protein powder into a food processor and blend. It really does taste just like frozen yogurt!
5. RunEmz
If you haven’t heard of this – you have to check it out!
This awesome woman is running 100 miles on a treadmill for 24 hours to raise money for education for children in India.
You can watch her live stream here and you can go and donate to this awesome cause here.
She is such an inspiration!
What is something that is making YOU happy this Friday?
I found the other day that stripping off my headphones for the last part of my run helped break it up a bit and finish strong.
It’s not the same as a totally electronics free run (or nekkid, as I’ve seen others refer to it) but I can see the appeal of an occasional device-less run.
Yeah I couldn’t do it that often, but every once in a while it is nice to get back to the basics and just run.
Good for you! I’m a Garmin + ipod girl 90% of the time, but every once in a while it’s nice to go without technology. I’m a mileage counter nerd though, so when I do run without my Garmin, it’s almost always a route that I already know the distance. You must have been hot in compression sleeves + long pants and sleeves!!! Good luck on the LR tomorrow!
I rarely run without my Garmin and music but I’m glad that I did! Well my husband had his Garmin on so he still made sure I covered the 7 miles I was supposed to do today hehe. It actually wasn’t that bad! It was in the 50’s so I was pretty comfortable!
I never run with music … never. Couple of reasons – first, I love the outdoors and nature, so why mess that up with music (and I am a huge music lover)? Also, safety, because:
– music is a distraction, making you more susceptible to clueless drivers
– music/headphones diminishes your sound awareness, putting you more at risk
– I run pre-dawn, so I really need to be alert.
I never used to run with a GPS until I started marathon training last spring … then I got a Nike+ and last fall a Garmin. It does help with tracking mileage and pace, but – especially now that it is dark from start to finish on my runs – I barely look at it. But I had a surprise battery incident last week and went without it … and just used the clock to tell me, and ran a course I know the mileage for.
I was surprised that you were so bundled up 🙂 I still did shorts and t-shirt this morning, but my hands were a bit cool by the end. I’m looking forward to a couple of nice long runs in the cool temps this weekend! Hope your calf feels better for yours!
I should run more without music, but recently I have really needed it to get me through some of my runs. My husband ipod broke so he has had to teach himself more to run without music as well.
I have become quite the slave to my Garmin and on most runs I honestly don’t even look at it very often. I have learned to run most of my easy runs by “feel” so I turn the clock face on and just run. Eventually when I start doing more of my speed work outside that will come in handy more, right now I am sticking to the treadmill.
In a few months today will feel like summer, but it was chilly and with the wind the extra layers helped me feel a bit warmer! I could have easily run in shorts, but just felt like switching it up! Good luck on your long runs this weekend!
Haha … I can only imagine when you run treadmills needing it. As I mentioned before I had to use one for a cardiac stress test 2 weeks ago, and just the 21 minutes on there was a real drag …
The whole ‘running by feel’ thing is really important, and there are so many articles about the downside of our GPS dependance. I try to run by feel and then check out my info later … my success varies 😉
And today was cooler here – it was barely above 50 so I wore my light gloves, and they never came off!
I tried to post this before but it doesn’t seem like it went through…
This advice is late but, be careful with your calf! I was having a killer marathon #2 training season, with plans to go sub-4 this fall. Then I got that same tightness/bothersome feeling in my left calf. I kept running, while compressing, rolling, icing, etc. and even ran a pain free 14 miler. The week after, it got too painful to continue running. That was when I saw a sports doc and got my diagnosis: calf strain. I stopped running for 10 days, did 5 days of physical therapy, then was cleared to run again. After doing yoga once, I was sidelined again (stretching a recovering muscle can be bad, who knew!) Now a week after the yoga incident, I’m finally feeling like normal again. Sadly, I’ve had to bag my fall marathon, but I’m just glad to be running again!
Sorry Dominique! If you are a first time commenter I have to approved it before it goes up! Looks like it is all fixed now! 🙂 I’m so sorry to hear about your calf issues! I will definitely pay attention! It seems to have worked itself out but I am always very careful with it and am ready to rest if I need to! I hope it doesn’t get much worse like you have talked about here. I’m sorry you had to cancel your marathon, but you are right I’m sure you feel amazing to be running again! Good luck with your running! 🙂