S&SS - "Recipe" Edition

Have you been having too many good-feeling or rewarding runs, lately?

Want to mix things up and toss in miles horrendous enough to make you wish a sinkhole would open up and swallow you so you don't have to run another step?

I have the formula to produce what you're looking for! The process takes a couple of days, so be sure to set aside enough time and follow the instructions, carefully.

Ingredients :

• 1 hilly 10k race, run hard
• 3 hours of soccer games
• 1 annoyed afternoon with no soreness, leading you to believe you hadn't raced at maximum effort, after all
• 1 ill-timed core workout, due to the lack of pain from race
• 4-6 friends
• 2 (many) adult beverages
• 0 allergy medications
• 12 additional, hilly miles
• 75 degrees (normally this temperature could be combined with shade and/or clouds. You won't need either for this recipe)

Instructions:

• Run the hard and fast race, on a challenging course. Optional : wear racing flats you haven't used in months!
• Sneak in some half-hearted stretching while watching your kids run around, outdoors.
• Spend the rest of the day deciding if you're happy or sad that you're not experiencing any aches or pains from the morning's race.
• Go ahead and try a new Abs Workout routine
• Invite over friends and family to hang out and watch an outdoor movie. Make sure you stay up with them well past your bedtime. For best results, eat and/or drink more than necessary, as well.
• Forget to take your allergy pill
• Wake up the following morning, stuffy and congested, with the worst case of DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) you have ever had. (Pain from your ribcage to your toes, preferrably)
• Decide to go ahead and run your 12, scheduled miles, anyway.
• Idiotically forget the fact that gorgeous, cooler weather that graced your fine city, last week is gone. Realize this when you're 4 miles into the blazing hot run, check your phone and see that the current temperature is not appealing to any normal people...runners or otherwise.
• Don't forget to complain to your internet friends about a situation you had total control over and simply made poor choices. Repeatedly.
• Enjoy!

Do you have a favorite recipe to share?

Friday Fastie

bite-sized goodness

 

heaven in a giant bowl

 

1. Where have these things been, all my life?

 

2. Will someone please take them out of my life? Now.

 

Luckily, I can race off some of those (delicious) calories tomorrow morning.

River City 5k/10k

 

This is a very small, local, race I've participated in the past 2 years. Small, as in, I was 1st Overall Female, last year with a underwhelming time of 46:02.

I've never done the 5k route. Both distances include some (Florida) hills, but "luckily" they're mostly at the end. 10ks are hard to come by, in this area, so we have to take what we can get. The way I figure, though, is I can still race against my own time. If that means I only win or lose to 4 other runners, so be it.

 

Some of my very best lady friends are running their first 10ks (!!) there, too. These are the same ones who just killed their old 5k PRs (personal records), so I expect this to be a fine morning for all. I'll be there to represent our running group, too. Just a bit more pressure to perform well.

 

January was the last time I raced (a 5k) and came away with a new PR. Every race after that, although fun and rewarding, did not produce record-breaking results.

 

It's time. For real.

 

What are your goals for your Saturday?