Monday, 4/30/12 to Saturday, 5/5/12

I ran 5 times in 7 days, 41.57 miles (if you include the Flower City Half Maraton with its own post on 4/29/12).

Monday, 4/30/12: Rest day.
I ran 23 times in 30 days, 158.1 miles, 6.9 miles/run. The most miles in a month ever.

Just your normal rest day. Christine went out to get her nails done at Art Nails, a nail salon next to Fleet Feet Ridgeway. I stayed home and puttered around. Later we watched Six Days, Seven Nights with Harrison Ford, Ann Heche and David Schwimmer.

Tuesday, 5/1/12: Another rest day.

I thought about going out for a run.  But ... Christine had spare ribs fixed with Sylvia's Spare Ribs recipe ready ... so we ate. Mmm .... yummy, fall off the bone goodness along with a baked potato. Later we watched the lastest episodes of Hawaii Five O, NCIS: LA (the crossover episodes) and NCIS.

Wednesday, 5/2/12: Sehgahunda Training at Cobbs Hill, 5.3 miles, 51:30, 9:48 pace, 70F, cloudy, calm, 3 stops for water, no pain.

I had a bad cramp in the morning right before I got out of bed. Christine helped me stretch it out before work.

Garmin Connect Activity for Sehgahunda Training at Cobbs Hill

I knew I needed to work out but I really needed a soft run rather than a hard, harder and hardest run. So I decided to make up a Sehgahunda Training workout on my own. I did 3 loops of the switchback, stone path and the diagonal along with a brief warmup run and a longer cooldown run. There was a brief sprinkle which helped cool me down in the middle of the run. The smell of lilacs on the cooldown run was so fragrant!

I did a bit of vegetable shopping at Wegmans before I came home to a luscious BLT supper that was waiting for me ... perfect timing by my darling Christine. I think I'll keep her! Earlier in the day I received a text from Redbox, so later we watched a free DVD, Fast Five.

Thursday, 5/3/12: Rest day.

Christine and I just chilled after some vigorous cross training at Planet Fitness. We watched a bit of Frozen Planet just to have something on.

Friday, 5/4/12: 6.2 miles, 48:13, 7:47 pace, 72F, partly cloudy, calm, no stops, no pain.

Garmin Connect Activity for Around the streets of Irondequoit

I needed to get out for a run. So ... I just headed on my usual 10K route. My Sehgahunda Training said to go 1 hour nice and easy. But ... that is not how I run road. So I just ran, it felt great! The smell of lilacs as I ran past the the intersection of Winoma Blvd and St Paul St was so fragrant! One of the benefits of running during the month of May!

Saturday, 5/5/12: Sehgahunda Preview Run #4, 16.97 miles, 3:17:43, 10:48 pace, 50-60F, sunny, no pain.



This morning was the Sehgahunda Preview Run #4. My Sehgahunda Training workout was to run it twice. Christine and I dawdled a bit like usual and didn't make it down to CP6 until about 9:15AM. I geared up with my Camelbak and a pocket full of Gu and headed out. The route was from CP6 to the parade grounds and back. This route was the easiest of the four routes: a mile or so of trail, a mile of road and 2 miles or so of cinder trail before the parade grounds. Still ... it had its ups and downs, pun intended. The weather was kind of cool and cloudy at the start but it was warmer and sunny by the time I headed out on the second loop. I took a Gu when I got to the parade grounds and another when I got back to CP6.

Heading up to the parade grounds on loop 1

I met up with Christine when I got back to the parade grounds on the 2nd loop. She put sun screen on me when I ate a banana and a PB&J, then I headed back out. When I got back to CP6 I was more than ready to stop. Todd shared some of the sweetest pineapple that I had ever tasted ... mmm!

Christine drove home. We stopped at Medved to pick up my packet for the Medved Madness 15 mile Trail Race being held tomorrow morning. I know it's running a long race after running 17 miles ... but I intend to run it as a long training run. Then we stopped at the nearby Rookies's Bar & Grill for some fuel (bacon cheeseburger wraps) and hydration before heading home.