A great week for working out. \u00a0After a hot few days, the temperatures dropped to fall levels! \u00a0It was amazing to wake up to 50 degree temps on a few mornings. \u00a0 It was also the first week back with kids at school and that was a lot of work. \u00a0It was like 90 degrees in the building for the first 3 days. \u00a0This was not comfortable for anyone. \u00a0Fortunately, my office has air conditioning (not a lot, but it helps). \u00a0Going from that to wearing pants and long sleeves over the weekend was quite a change.<\/p>\n
I ran three times this week. \u00a0Thursday was a cool run in the rain. \u00a0I almost didn’t go, but it felt great to run and to run in the rain felt even better. \u00a0It was kind of soothing and relaxing to go out and have no pressure and just enjoy the cooler air and sound and feeling of rain.<\/p>\n
Friday I ran in my Vibram 5 Fingers<\/a>. \u00a0I bought a pair on the scratch and dent rack at REI and this was my second time running in them. \u00a0I’m taking it very easy on the mileage and effort while wearing them. \u00a0It is quite a different experience. I read somewhere that you just need to run naturally and let your foot react to the difference when hitting the ground. \u00a0I’ve run to local parks and done most of the mileage on grass. \u00a0I haven’t noticed any major issues. \u00a0It is an odd feeling though to actually feel the rocks and bumps of the ground.<\/p>\n Saturday morning was the annual Finn Picnic for the MDRA Fall Marathon Training Group<\/a>. \u00a0I showed up pulling my old-school Burley trailer with OJ in it and had a great time catching up with friends. \u00a0As a result, I found out about the Sunday morning run. \u00a0Most of my group of friends is tapering for the Moose Mountain Marathon<\/a> next weekend, but a small group was going to help navigate the Trail Loppet<\/a> course for a friend, so I joined them. It was a tough course with lots of up and down and some more technical stretches. It was a great time. \u00a0I love trail running. \u00a0It is hard, but so much fun to be weaving through the trees.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Christy and I went to Lake Nokomis so that I could do some swimming and then we relaxed on the beach afterwards. \u00a0It was a gorgeous evening and a fun way to relax mid-week. \u00a0I did 600 meters and felt pretty comfortable with it. \u00a0There was a very small amount of chop and people playing in the “lap swimming” part, otherwise excellent.<\/p>\n Sunday, I screwed up my attempt at 30 Days of Biking. \u00a0We were going to ride to a new church, but I didn’t get home in time from the run to do so. \u00a0Then we went and ran some errands and did work around the house. \u00a0I thought, “Oh I’ll do the little ride around the block thing.” Then we went to some friends for a bonfire and didn’t get home until after midnight. \u00a0Ooops. \u00a0I knew that weekends would be harder since I don’t commute on the weekends and also don’t want to ride in a training sense more than once a weekend.<\/p>\n Weekly Mileage:<\/p>\n Bike: 82.6 Miles<\/p>\n Run: 10.5 Miles<\/p>\n Swim: 600 meters<\/p>\n This week’s ONE POST<\/strong> becomes two: \u00a0A short story about my college running <\/a>and a Step-by-step guide along the Minneapolis Downtown Riverfront<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A great week for working out. \u00a0After a hot few days, the temperatures dropped to fall levels! \u00a0It was amazing to wake up to 50 degree temps on a few mornings. \u00a0 It was also the first week back with kids at school and that was a lot of work. \u00a0It was like 90 degrees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-Bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7655,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2020\/01032020-run\/","url_meta":{"origin":2324,"position":0},"title":"01032020 – Run","author":"crossn81","date":"January 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"As expected it had rained over night. 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