Miles for Pints

Allergies/asthma

am 8 around the lake, trying to stay off the hard stuff as the legs are still a tad sore

pm 7 w/ the dog, did 12 strides on the rec fields, felt okay on those, certainly not fast 

first day that allergies have crept in to my sinuses, soreness is pretty much gone at this point

allergies are killing me, i broke down and took a claritin after doing a sinus rinse and hit the caffeine

am 9

Pm 25 minutes w/ Jenny on the XC course post happy hour beerssss, promptly hopped on the bike to go get candy and a movie, 3+++ miles

All of biking around today for a little more

Did like 5.5 miles w/ Jenny, Ina very dazed state, between Benadryl and my allergies I was out of it, which explains how I kicked a dirt clod, tripped and banged my knee, so then with a goodly amount of blood streeming down my leg I stopped and got Asher and we did 2x 5 strides and more miles, wind aided, he was out of it too so it wasn't just me!

I was going to run again but then we turned our attention to the festivities surrounding this 100 mile dirt road bike race that was finishing and we went down there to hang out and eat street tacos and have a beer. Duke and his old guys cleaned up at the race, where there seemed to be less than 50% of starters finishing. Broken derailleurs and mud everywhere. I was totally wanting to do it but I don't have the bike for it and as it turned out it was a lot more difficult with weather and newly shipped roads. 8 hours seemed to be a good time.....maybe next year

Waited til late afternoon and ran the whole thing with Asher, most of it with him off leash. Asher is, how to characterize, an excitable and high energy dog. He has on multiple occasions now run through barbed wire, sharp sticks, and who knows what else in the pursuit of small furry animals, the outcome of which has been 0 net animals and many bloody gashes, the worst of them requiring stitches, satellite dish collars, etc. So knowing this, I am still trying to train him to a new 5k pb and to be the best running dog around. We were running on this short section of bike path through the woods and he hit a game trail, which I noticed and called to get his attention. Now, if I stopped and made sure that Asher was not up to foolishness, I would not get a run in with the dog, so I did some laps in a pasture for a while waiting for him to reappear. He did not.... For a while, and when he did, I noticed he wasn't moving that fast meaning he had definitely been in a foot race with something and.... I noticed a bloody scuff on his shoulder which wasn't bleeding heavily but there nonetheless. We head home and this point to get him cleaned up, but we're about 4 miles out and I ain't carrying the damn dog or something. We're tough in this household, dogs only get to sleep on the couch for 8 hours a day and no more than 2 massages a week. We get home and I clean the dog up, there's dried matted blood and what sees like a few loose hairs that are white or grey, not the black of Asher's entire coat, but no major trauma that I can tell. It was on kind of a weird spot on the side of his shoulder, so I'm hoping its not an animal bite. I had to shave his shoulder to get a closer look and a puncture is this only thing that can describe the wound and reason for the amount of blood for such a small spot of damage. So, hopefully, a bullet dodged. We've done skunk sprays, barbed wire gashes and now a possible animal attack

pm. As I'm writing this after the fact I believe my allergies were still kicking my ass and I had a nice bloody nose and metallic taste in my throat; 10 miles, few drills, 5x start hill on coarse, mile home

am. 6 After ROSU practice on the course, stiff right adductor

pm. 13, short dirt roads coming back progressively, picked up Asher for last couple we ran sub 6 on sidewalks on the short leash

am: 6x 3' on, 1 off on the lake, moderate all around, allergies better but blowing a lot of stuff, nice morning; played chicken a few times w/ geese

pm did the standard dirt road lake lake loop, hot but I felt decent, 13

pm2 Asher run on the course, 6

Am 57' on the course I believe, hot w/Asher, ran into Allen Thurman so joined up with him. Probably the most noteworthy thing was his odd choice of routes at the course, he kept doing these out and backs instead of just doing one of the many options of loops you have out there, decent runner I believe

Pm 40' possibly the same venue, then I did a bunch of short hill sprints trying this new short hill and getting chastised by the foreign kids, I may have almost had one talked into trying to race me

Ahh, the life of a personal trainer/running coach. I had practice for my group this morning and kind of intended to get a workout in while they were on their long run....fate intervened and so I ran a really slow 8 miles but I don't think the benefits warrant that, called it 6

Pm got some better running in on the grass largely for a bunch of strides, 3 miles on the aerated turf, then 2 miles on the track, felt good but windy and hard to run sub 5:30 initially but then when I loosened up not a prob

Got out on the hills, bumped into some OSU md guys, ran with them then headed back out, nice one

am easy on course, felt ok this morning, have been having a stomach ache for a while though,

No second run for no good reason other than I felt kind of off this afternoon didn't eat lunch, Jenny wanted to go to the city but couldn't come up with a plan of action on how or what she wanted to do so it was kind of a wasted day really, went to bed early to ensure I'm combatting any possible ailments and with early training group tomorrow morning

am 5 mile warmup, 11x1'on/off on Boomer then finished out 4 miles solid, steady to salty cool down, didn't feel real great, extended the warmup and had to pit stop before I started fartlek, fine after the gut was purged, 13

Pm 45' 6+ trying to drop Asherman

Standard MLR up Sangre, ran without the Garmin, I added on a little but ended up under 90 minutes still

Am post ROSU practice headed out and thought about getting going on a workout but wind was a blowin and the rec. fields were unrunnable , 5

Pm can't remember details, dog run possibly then minor stomach unsettled so kept it rolling on XC course and finally started getting after it fartleked some, split mile in 5:20, 10+

Strides and Little tempo on the XC course, somewhat windy, felt comfortable running but big hill was starting to sap me and I thought I might either get out for another workout or do one mañana.

am run with my newbies, slow easy run had a lot of clothes on and wallet and keys and extremely full bladder, basically anything I could add for resistance training, calling it a long 5

Noon went about 3 wu, few strides then some progression runs on the track, paced Jenny for the first mile of these and then essentially cut down from there, at least covered a range of paces and. Got down around 5:10 pace,10+

Cold, windy, hilly, muddy, tired, stiff, slippery, thirsty, sweaty, time crunched

am easy 8

pm steady 8

am 7+

pm 5, Mona fartlek, 2 cd

am dirt roads, tried to run east/west because of wind, horse running loose on the road, 2 miles late in the run straight south were tough

pm biked the XC course trying to wear Asher out, we had some fun

am ROSU practice, XC course

am2 8 perhaps?

pm easy few miles with Graef, then did 2.5 mile fartlek on the course; 7.5 total, warm and almost dropped Asher on the hard sections

am 10 tired miles before driving to Norman and then on to Broken Bow

pm 5.5 easy with John, Grona, and Skolnick on some hilly dirt roads immediately after jumping out of the car pounding 2 beers and strapping on the running kit

Pm on dirt road in broken bow after exploring and doing a little fishing this morning, muggy as can be and had pizza like an hour prior; finally started feeling better after a1/2 hour so picked up some miles then did 6xshort hills, then few more steady miles on really hilly logging road, miles were barely under 6, then ran back towards cabin and just did some short stride/steady stuff for a mile on the paved road, 13.5

Afternoon in Norman after a bachelor party weekend, weather was nice