Archive for February, 2010

• Busy Sunday

  Date: 2010.02.07 | Category: running, Uncategorized | Response: View Comments

  This morning I had another very chilly long run.  It was in the 20s, but I was thankful that there was no snow to battle.  I did 14 rather sluggish miles.  Not sure exactly why, but from the very beginning, my legs felt like lead.  I thought about giving up half way through the run (when I was stopping to rehydrate at my car) but I pushed on.  At about mile 11, I started using the Galloway method.  But it wasn’t technically the Galloway method — I just ran a mile, walked for one minute.  It was just to get me mentally through the run.  My pace averaged at about a 10 minute mile for the whole run–not much better than when I was running in the snow last week.  I suppose it is because I did my tempo run on Saturday that my legs were not so fresh.  I’m a little disappointed with my pace, but happy that I am getting through the miles.

  I know my legs were spent at the end of last week’s long run and this long run because both times I tried to sprint the last 1/5 of the last mile — and after I really felt like I was pushing it, I looked down at my Garmin and saw that I was just maintaining pace! It’s like running in wet cement.

  After my long run, my husband, Mark, Ada, and I went downtown to Soulard for the annual dog parade.  Last year we just watched, but this year we walked in the dog parade.  Ada’s grandmother gave her a cute costume:

  

  Last year, there was a buffalo at the end of the parade.  This year, there was a pony.

  

  Ada could not figure out what kind of dog it was:

  

  Luckily the pony was very tolerant of this kind of behavior.   It’s fun to own a weimaraner.  Random weim owners walk up to us and talk to us about their dogs, as do fans of weims.  We get a lot of “have you heard of  William Wegman“?

  After all that walking and hind-quarter sniffing, we are tired!

  

  (Mark is not big on the hind-quarter sniffing, but being pulled across Soulard by a 60 pounds of canine is tiring.)

  I am so happy to be inside after 5-6 hours of 20-30° weather, and put my legs up for a little while.  I think we are going to remain on the couch for the Super Bowl, do some laundry, and otherwise lay low.