On Vacation and Running
Usually, when my husband and I travel on vacation, I cannot run. There's just no time to run and my husband would not think of giving me time to run. We always end up being on the road for 10+ hours a day and walking everywhere. So even though I do not run on vacation, I exercise a lot. Two years ago, we went to Italy and I ended up losing 4 lbs despite eating like a pig and eating dessert twice a day.
This time, we were taking a cruise of Scandinavia. A cruise = no 10+ hours on the road. There's down time. So I thought I would be able to run. I did.
I did not run much. I ran between 25 and 33 mpw each week. But I did some good quality workouts. I had to use the TM most of the time, mostly because the deck that was measured was 100m long and there's no way in hell I could run 100 laps on it. I would shoot myself. The other deck was not measured so I had to guess the distance by time (the Garmin would pick up the satellite but it would pick up the distance of the boat and I would show up as having run 20 miles at 3mm when I ran something like 5 miles in 50 minutes, LOL). So the deck was good for short distances (5 or less) but for anything else, the TM was the instrument.
I decided to do at least 2 long runs and one speedwork during those two weeks. I ran three 5 milers (2 of those on the deck), a 5K test race, an 11 miler and a 10 miler. Even on the TM, I was super fast. I did both the 11 miler and the 10 miler in what could extrapolate to a 2:03 half marathon and that was the day after the 5K test race. It felt good to run fast. I curse you humidity.
Anyway, as soon as I got back I got sick and was in bed until Saturday. Today was my second run since then. 10 miles in 1:39 or thereabouts. Not bad at all.
This time, we were taking a cruise of Scandinavia. A cruise = no 10+ hours on the road. There's down time. So I thought I would be able to run. I did.
I did not run much. I ran between 25 and 33 mpw each week. But I did some good quality workouts. I had to use the TM most of the time, mostly because the deck that was measured was 100m long and there's no way in hell I could run 100 laps on it. I would shoot myself. The other deck was not measured so I had to guess the distance by time (the Garmin would pick up the satellite but it would pick up the distance of the boat and I would show up as having run 20 miles at 3mm when I ran something like 5 miles in 50 minutes, LOL). So the deck was good for short distances (5 or less) but for anything else, the TM was the instrument.
I decided to do at least 2 long runs and one speedwork during those two weeks. I ran three 5 milers (2 of those on the deck), a 5K test race, an 11 miler and a 10 miler. Even on the TM, I was super fast. I did both the 11 miler and the 10 miler in what could extrapolate to a 2:03 half marathon and that was the day after the 5K test race. It felt good to run fast. I curse you humidity.
Anyway, as soon as I got back I got sick and was in bed until Saturday. Today was my second run since then. 10 miles in 1:39 or thereabouts. Not bad at all.
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