Hey! So, no races since the Ravenswood Run 5K, but that
doesn’t mean I haven’t been out there running. I’ve been really good about
maintaining the minimum 20-miles/week so that I can get in my 1000-mile goal
for the year. In the two weeks following the race I’ve logged 22 and 23 miles
and this week I’ll hit a recent high of 29 miles. It hasn’t all been boring
slogs either – I took a runcation with some of my Ragnar teammates up to
Wisconsin to get in a day of multi-runs.
We arrived at the rental property in Albany, WI on Friday
evening at about 8:45pm and by 9:15 we had our running clothes on, our
headlamps strapped on and we were out on the trail. It sounds a little creepy,
but I’ve been up here before plenty of times and I know the trail well – it’s
the Sugar River State Trail – a nice rails-to-trails project that is flat, has
few road crossings and cuts through mostly farmland so the chance of running
into another human is pretty much nil at that time of night. Despite my
assurances of safety we still managed to get freaked out by strange noises that
in reality were probably just spring peepers (that’s frogs – not peeping Toms).
We did our 5 miles and got back in time to make a quick pasta dinner, shower
and then go to bed. The next day brought
the same times two about 2 hours apart to get the feeling of running on tired
legs. Then we showered again and headed to the nearby New Glarus brewery for
some yummy beers and a bag of cheese curds in their tap room. Only one beer for
us on our nearly empty stomachs and then we headed into New Glarus proper to
have ‘linner’ at the Glarner Stube. We split an order of delicious fried cheese
curds and in a most uninspired manner we all had the wienerschnitzel and rosti
potatoes– what can I say? It was fantastic!
After linner we walked around town a little bit but were
pretty pooped so we headed back to the house for a nap. We all came to around
7pm and we sat around and drank wine until it was time to go to sleep again –
sorry to bust the myth that runners are CRAZY PARTYERS. At least not my crew of
runners. The next day we woke up, made a
big breakfast of eggs, chicken sausage, and leftover rosti potatoes and then
cleared out and headed home. 15 miles broken into three segments isn’t really
that much, but it does give you the feeling of hitting the road when you’re stiff
and a little creaky and it’s good practice.
This weekend I’m heading up to Wisconsin again – Green Bay
this time – for their half-marathon. This is the site of my half PR two years
ago – 1:55 & change – but I don’t expect to beat that time or really even
come particularly close. I’ll be the first to admit that during my injury I
kept eating like I was running 20-30 miles/week and the resulting 10 # is
definitely slowing me down. But, I love this race. For a smaller city race they
have great crowd support , a fun expo, a lap around Lambeau Field, and a
finishline beer & brat. I’ll be back next week with a race review.
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