Tuesday I didn’t run at all just because of limited time and I was super sore, so a rest day was kind of nice.
Then last night, I stayed over at my sister’s house in Arlington. Then her, her boyfriend Danny, and I went for a little run around 8am before she went to school. There are MILES and MILES of paved trails in Northern Virginia. They have a whole system up there that connects and it’s at least a hundred miles of trails.
People eat that shit up too. There were tons of bikers biking to work, lots of dog walkers, even some families out for a stroll. It’s nice to see it used so heavily. It was just genius for them to make that, especially for such a heavily populated area.
I like you guys, so I’m going to let you see the view without doing the work. Don’t tell anyone though, it’ll be our little secret! Hehehe
I order you to STOP posting pictures of your perfect, gorgeous, incredible home because I am getting so jealous, I’m about to run up there myself…
“Someone could run me over with a truck at this point and I’d still get on the damn starting line.” — Lauren Fleshman (via short-shortsandshoelaces)
Total: 41.5 miles - WHOOOOOP! I haven’t done this since my ultra training, and even that was just 3 days a week. Also, you may be wondering, “Is it smart to increase your mileage so much each week like you are doing?” And I will answer, “No, no it is not.” But to tell you the truth, I’m kind of seeing how much I can handle, and I don’t care if I injure myself.
How do I feel you may ask? Fantastic and shit. It’s cool to do this much mileage again like I used to, but I also wasn’t really prepared for it, so my legs and ass are SO TIRED.
Testify! Was at 23 mins dropped to 18 in the space of 2 months.
Michael, we all know you’re just a running freak of nature.
Me, my dad, my step-mom, and my sister went like 20 minutes North to this cute, little town called Kent (CT). It’s literally .5 miles to an Appalachian Trail head. They dropped me off at this state park, and my dad showed me this trail of about 2 miles. I told him to come back in and hour, and that was that.
The VAST majority of those 2 miles is uphill, and the trail is super wide because it was originally made for carriages. It was really pretty and green and sunny, so it was a beautiful run. I went up, down, and then did that again to get 8 miles in. I averaged 8 at the top after the first leg, then like 7:45 at the bottom of the second leg, 8:01 at the top of the 3rd leg, and then I tried to kill it downhill and finished with an average 7:47. That means I was running like 7:00 for the last 2 miles which is cool.
Then we went into town, and I had a mouth-watering Black Sheep sandwich (mozzarella balls, pesto, sun-dired tomatoes, and balsamic vinaigrette on a french baguette). TWAS DELICIOUS.
But then my bowels were fucked up for the next hour. FUN.
My freshman year, I ran over 22 minutes in the 5k for my first race. at the 2nd to last race of the year, i ran 19:14. anything is possible with dedication
Lauren Fleshman, casually lying on the ground. You know, being all chill and stuff.
(via justrunthroughit)
I went from 21:00 to 19:05, anything is possible with consistant training and hard long runs!
Anonymous asked: do you think it possible to go from running 20:45 to high 18 teens in a season
It is IF you really really focus on it. I actually went from 20:25 to 18:25 in one season, so I think you can too (if this is a guy). If this is a girl, its not as likely (sorry girls, not being sexist, you just aren’t built the same way as us). But yeah, work hard, sleep right, eat right, do your workouts, and if your coach is good, do exactly what he says. You can do it. Keep me updated!
(Source: fyeahrunning, via full-speed-towards-whatever)
Anonymous asked: So i've been out running for a while because of shin splints and whenever i run (preparing for xc season in highschool) i am so worried about not being able to have the endurance i used to have before i took time off. what can i do to help gain that endurance back? I'll probably be on varsity this year and i cannot let my team down but i'm afraid i will..
There is only one way: run. Sorry to tell you that, but it really is the only way. If you’re a senior and don’t plan on running in college, then you have another option - go balls to the wall and train as hard as you possibly can. Otherwise, just run. I promise you haven’t lost all your endurance. When you run consistently for a while and then don’t run, you definitely lose some, but not all.
My senior season of xc was by far my most fittest. I ran a 10:42 time trial one day while my coach paced me, I ran a 17:35 5k, and every one of my runs for 3 weeks was at 6:30-7:00 min/mile pace. Then I quit spring track because my coach sucked, and I didn’t run too much. There was never a time I couldn’t run under a 20 minute 5k, so I definitely didn’t lose all my fitness. But I did lose a lot.
So just run. and if it’s shin splints, you probably didn’t have to take of tooooo long. Just run, train hard, eat right, sleep well, and you will do fine. Stick with it and happy running :)
If there was one word to describe this run, it would be moist. Shut up all you people who say you hate that word. DGAF. It was humid as HELL and sunny and hot today when I went for a run, so it was NOT FUN. I did about 5 miles, so it was solid, but going uphill (about 400-500 ft climb in 1.25 miles) was so fucking tough. My legs were hardly working at the end.
I would undoubtedly say it was so hard because I did that downhill/uphill run twice + extra, and that was tough. But that one uphill was tougher than that whole run. Whatevs, I still got a run in so I am glad. I think that puts my mileage at 32 for the week so far. Not bad. An 8 mile run would get me to 40, so maybe I’ll do that.
When I got back, I was already DRENCHED in sweat, but then I did some abs and I ddidn’t feel my bodily existence anymore. I was the salty sweat dripping from some nonexistent beginning under my hair, then down my forehead, nose, and finally to my upper lip. From there, it would be wiped off, thrown off, or drunk.
