Chasing Kris

Welcome to October! This week was the last week of September, and my second week of training for my triple thread of  upcoming runs. My training mash up of clustered runs and long runs is working out okay.  I'm more sore than usual, but I am choosing to believe that means it's working.  If it were easy, I'd be wondering why I haven't stepped it up before. Last week I tried a few new or unusual (for me) things.  I ran four days in a row. My normal routine always includes a day off between runs, just because I'm slow at recovery and have a tendency toward chronic issues if I overdo it.  I'm the Queen of Overdoing, so my moderation policy has been one I've deliberately ingrained.  It's fun throwing that out the window and embracing my Overdone nature once again! In addition to clustering my runs, I also got up before the sunrise and ran with a few of the ladies who will be on my Ragnar Napa Team.  My policy of "No Run Before the Sun" has...

Johnny Cash Bridge, Folsom CA This is the first week of my Training Plan Mashup.  There are 19 days until my first event in this series, Granite Head Trails and Ales.  That race is 11 trail miles up and down the western shore of Folsom Lake along Granite Bay's entrance with a steep but short climb up and over Mooney Ridge at the end. I'm going with the idea that a solid base will carry me through the trail race and continue to keep me on track for surviving Ragnar.  The biggest unknown for me is the effect of running consecutive, yet separate, runs over the course of a short time period.  My longest distance ever run at a time has been a half marathon.  For Ragnar, I'll be totaling 20 miles in 36 hours. The Tamoxifen I continue to take (it has been prescribed for me for the next 10 years to keep any lingering breast cancer cells at bay) is still causing me some grief.  I'm more sensitive to caffeine and alcohol.  I sleep a lot less becaus...