ihersey wrote:
Luckily I haven't had to run on a treadmill yet in the challenge, and I've moved myself up to only being one run down at the midway point (via a number of doubles and triples). I was tempted to do a second run on day 50 just to bring myself to "par", but my right calf had been tight for a couple of days so I decided not to push my luck. It's fine now.
I have the opposite environment challenge of the snow/ice posters - in Hawaii, most of my runs are at 80F with relative humidity north of 70%. The good news is the challenge has really helped me get acclimatized to that; it now finally seems like the new normal. I'm on a business trip right now in my old stomping grounds in the Bay Area, and this morning's run in 50F temps felt easy - so much so that I didn't start sweating at all until mile 3, and I'm normally quite the heavy sweater. We'll see how much this helps when I get to my old nemesis: the run at Hawaii 70.3.
Ian
I think I am three runs down now and over 50. I have the Dubai 70.3 coming up in two weeks and on top of that the snow here has been awesome for XC skiing. So between wanting to mainly swim, getting excited about being on skis more, being forced to endure some trainer time, running has been getting less emphasis. The main thing is I was consistently in the 50-60km per week for the first 50 days which should be enough mileage to get me through the 70.3. At this point, losing 3-4 lbs in the next 2 weeks is going to help me a lot more than running more and I need to pile on some panic bike mileage next weekend when I get to Dubai to get used to biking again!!!! My last bunch of weeks have been 16-18 hrs with ~4-5 hrs of running so I should have enough to get through, but I can't swim and XC ski the entire 70.3, so I need to bike more now.
I'll see how far behind I am after Feb 7th and see if I can do a bunch of double in at the end of Feb and March to close on 100.