30 January 2008

Shortest training run yet

Yesterday I ran to the end of my driveway, turned around, and came back in. I could tell all morning my knee was sore, and it acted up with the onset of running, so despite Doug's inspirational tempo run yesterday (including a 6:02 mile) and my ambition to crank out a couple fast miles myself (after all, we're supposed to be running 3:00 in Chicago together this fall), I played it smart and took a rest day. Plymouth just got hammered with 60 mph winds and sleet/snow that cancelled school today, so even I will not be running outside tonight...perhaps some hamster time though. In the meantime, check out these videos. The first is a recent post on Science of Sport (really cool blog) about a really fast half marathoner completing her first full marathon after going out WAY too fast: LINK

And the second is Parsenn and me (Ellie filming) running around in a foot of powder. The little guy tries to jump from footprint to footprint and loves every second of it:

2 comments:

Jess said...

Well, I'm at a loss. I suck at Nun Chucks too :)

Tri+Umph said...

Wise move, Nic. You need to be injury free to run sub 3 with me in Chicago!

By the way, I'm planning to register for Chicago the moment it opens tonight. Sub 3, hell or high water!