159 LostTrailRunner Podcast

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Come back often and feel free to add the podcast to your favorite podcast player or iTunes. Now let's get on with the show. Music. Well, I'm in my mobile recording studio this morning, headed to Athens, Georgia. And I thought it would be a good time to just talk. The weather has started turning cold here. The past two days, it was below freezing in the morning, really. And it stayed cool all day long. Probably the highest it got yesterday was in the mid-40s.

And that gets me in the mood to stay inside more. And so I cranked up my bike trainer last night and got in a half-hour ride. And I think that's my theme for the winter. I think what I'm going to do is try to do a lot of more cross-training on my bicycle indoors when the weather's crappy and run when the weather is comfortable. And when I say comfortable, it doesn't have to be warm. It just has to be not windy and rainy.

You know, it could be sunny in 26 and that would be comfortable for me to go out and run. So from now well from now through Christmas I'm going to be doing that today I think is the 5th of December and I have signed up for a race in February February 22nd a short 5k and I'm going to be doing my bike cross training and running when the weather is good and see how that works out.

I hopefully will stick with it because I have a tendency sometimes when it comes to indoor bike training is I'll procrastinate until it's too late and then I don't want to go ride my bike at 9 30 at night or 10 o'clock then go to bed because it's hard to sleep after you.

Adrenaline going you know so we'll see how that works out i did get seven miles in my my my bike what what i let me mumble a little bit okay what i my thoughts are is i've got a training plan that i'm using and on the days that i determined that i'm going to stay inside and ride my bike I'm going to use the same amount of minutes like last night. My run yesterday was supposed to be a half hour, just a short run, right?

So I decided I'd ride a half hour on my bike, which comes out to, you know, probably the same amount of effort. You just go farther on a bicycle. Well, actually, no, the effort is less on my bike because I know when I run, even when I run slow, I can get my heart rate up to in the low 100, you know, like 105, 110, with a high of probably 135. 45, where on my bike, so far when I've ridden, I usually end up averaging about the low 90s for a heart rate.

Granted, I'm not pushing myself on the bike. I'm probably averaging between 14 and 16 miles an hour on the bicycle, which is just an easy ride. But my heart rate doesn't get up as high as it does when I run at say in the 13 and 14 minute range which is slow also but we'll see how it works out I'm hopefully going to stick with it I got seven in yesterday today I'm kind of, waiting to see the high is going to be in the mid 40s today and I don't know what if the wind's and it's just.

Miserable out, I'll do another bike ride tonight. And we'll see how it works out. What I plan on really doing is, at least on the weekends, get my longer run in. And maybe on Saturday and Sunday, I'll reserve those for just strictly running, even if the weather's crappy, because I've, you know, weekends are weekends. So, I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving. I had just a normal, easy-going Thanksgiving. Nothing spectacular.

Little turkey, little, you know, mashed potato. I didn't have any dressing this year. I just had mashed potatoes and vegetables. But anyway, and then Christmas is coming up. So, hope everybody has a good Christmas and And maybe I'll put another podcast out before Christmas, but you never can tell.

So in case I don't, Merry Christmas. And I'll cut this off for now and come back later on. Okay, see ya. I'm back. Where did I leave off? I don't even have an idea. This is the next day. This is the 6th of December, and I'm driving. It's an easy way to record while I'm driving, so that's what I'm doing. Let's see, last night I did another Zwift bike ride inside because it wasn't that cold. It was like 53 degrees outside, but the wind was good.

Probably in the 20s maybe, so it felt colder, and I just didn't want to deal with it. So I got on my bike trainer and went to the beautiful tropical island of Watopia and did what was called the coast-to-coast ride. It was a 15-mile ride, but I only did seven of it Because I'm doing the amount of time that my running schedule calls for. So it called for a half hour run yesterday. And I kind of compromised. I said I would do a minimum of seven miles, however long it took.

And I averaged a little bit less than 15 miles an hour. So it was like 31 minutes instead of 30, which is no big deal.

But I had a good easy ride and that's what I wanted and today at this very moment it's 33 degrees and sunny and I haven't decided whether I'm going to run or not if I may if the wind's not blowing when I go outside I might run today if not I'll do another bike ride which will be which will be a major accomplishment for me right now having not taken not taken what am i talking about not having ridden my bike in quite a while doing three in a row would be you know unusual and and

what's really strange is i haven't ridden my bike in so long i can really tell which muscles that I have not used because of not riding my bike I've got some sore muscles in two days from from riding they're not the same muscles that I use for my running and I guess.

Feels good to be sore you know what i'm saying you ever have that that that feeling like you know that you've actually worked out and accomplished something maybe that's the way it feels to me and the it's kind of like the more i do that the more inspired i get to do more so we'll see if i ride my bike again tonight i may if not i'll go out and and run i've got a new pair of shoes coming i i i guess i'm a shoe freak basically because i've got so

many pairs of running shoes it's unbelievable but anyway i a couple of weeks ago i bought some nike zoom fly sixes and i really like those shoes those are really good shoes and i got a pair of white ones and i go you know what i'd really like a pair of black ones so i'm headed to athens and that was my gps telling me where to go anyway i like them so much i ordered a black pair so i've got a. White pair that I've been using and I got a black pair that's coming today and if they

come before dark then I may go out and just run at them to give them a test for some reason when I get a pair of shoes like that I usually end up getting two pairs of them I guess because I'm just afraid that by the time I get around to wearing one pair out they won't even have them anymore so i so i just got two pairs of nike zoom fly sixes which i really like those shoes it's first pair of nikes i've liked in a long time nike used to be my go-to shoe and then i kind of got away from nikes i

started wearing hokas and sockany which are my two go-to shoes right now and then because nike really didn't have any any model shoe that i really liked so i just gravitated to hoka and and sockany but these zoom fly sixes really are good shoes for me i mean i'm a slow runner now but but still it just makes you feel like you're running faster right? I mean, I'm not running faster. Well, I'm running a little faster. I'll have to say that.

Not anything like I used to run, but it gives you the feeling that you're running faster when you've got a good pair of shoes like this. So I'm excited to try them out today, maybe. And if not, I'll try them out tomorrow, because tomorrow's Saturday, and I've got all day to screw around with them. And so I'll either be riding my bike tonight or running in my new shoes today. So we'll see which one it is.

Oh, let me see. What else do I have? Oh, I didn't want to really bring this up, but I went to a dermatologist back at the end of October, right? And he found a spot on the top of my head and my scalp up in my hair that looked suspicious. So he did a biopsy of it, and he called me back a couple of weeks ago and said, well, it's melanoma, so we're going to have to do a surgery and cut it off. And I've got an appointment on the 13th of December to get that removed,

and hopefully it hasn't spread anywhere else, and I'll be okay. We'll see. Anyway, that's my depressing news for the day. And my daughter's going to come and take me to the doctor's office to get it done. And then hopefully it won't be that serious and I can just keep on moving on. You know what I'm saying?

Well, this is it for today. I'll turn this off and maybe I'll do another recording and get a little bit more linked out of this podcast. So I'll see you later. Bye. It's been a couple of days since I'd recorded anything. I had a lapse, I guess. Well, the weather got crappy and I didn't do anything. That's what it boiled down to. That's just the way it goes. Well, it's getting closer to when I'm going to have to get surgery on my head on the 13th.

And I'm not looking forward to it so I don't know how it's going to affect my running if I'll be able to run through it or not we'll have to see about that today is what the 11th yeah it's the 11th and. This morning, I got up early, and it was raining and about 58 degrees, I guess. And then as the day progressed, the rain went away, and the wind started blowing. So it had gusts up to 35 to 40 mile an hour winds, which helped dry everything out.

But it also dropped the temperature from about 58 to 43 with the wind blowing.

So it wasn't that comfortable but I decided that it was time that I needed to get outside and run some I I was gonna ride my bike yesterday and I just put it off and put it off and put it off and pretty soon it was just too late so I just said okay wasted that day I gotta be more disciplined I'm very slack when it comes to discipline, I guess, because when you're my age, really, you just figure, well, you know, what the heck, just do what you want to do and feel good about it.

So that's what I plan on doing. I did register for a 5K race February 22nd over in Snellville, the Reagan run on the Ronald Reagan Parkway.

I've done that for I don't know four or five years now and it's just a 5k race it's a. Parkway that's four lane divided highway and they shut it down on a i don't know if it's on midnight on friday night to get it ready for the race but anyway the the road is completely shut down so no cars can ride on it until about three o'clock the saturday afternoon and the race is saturday morning, they have three races.

They have a, well, they actually have four, but they have a 5K untimed run, which I didn't really erase. They have a 5K timed run that's a race, and then they have a 10K race, and they have a half marathon. Oh, yeah. And I think they have a mile kids run, you know, for the little kids. But it's always been a good race. even though the age groups don't match up very well with me because I always get stuck in the 70 and over group. And being 83, that's a big gap, you know.

So I have no chance of placing, really. But I don't care. I just run it and have a good time. But anyway, I got that race coming up. And there is also a 5K at Lilburn Park. I think it's the 1st of February that I may register for. It's the Stampede in the Park 5K that's put on by Meadow Creek High School cross-country. And I usually run that race just to support their cross-country team. And the age groups on that, I think, is like 60 and over. So there's no hope there either.

But you know what the heck I just run it for the fun of it I'm not really worried about it, so I got those two races coming up, and I like to do good in them I like to get a good time even though I have no chance of actually placing, because of my age but I do like to get a decent time for my age so we'll see how it goes, I think last year at Reagan, I might actually came in third place in my age group. I don't know. I'd have to go back and look at it.

Anyway, I got a run in today. It was a 35-minute zone two run, and I actually just ran my normal pace, no pushing or anything, And I actually ran below 14, which is, you know, I've been running 14 and 14 and a half for a while. And in the past couple of weeks, I've gone into the 13s. So maybe I'm getting a little bit in shape despite my slackness. We'll see. Anyway, I had a good run today. and tomorrow is going to be some kind of a speed workout.

I don't know what, nothing serious. I'll have to look at it and see what it is. But I thought what I would do, I've recorded this podcast in three segments and they've been over a period of, what, a week and a half or two weeks. So I guess I'll just put it together and send it out to you And if you're interested, you can listen to it or delete it, whatever.

And if you have any comments and any ideas of what you'd like me to talk about or whatever, you can send me email at runbikeron at nym, like newyorkminute.hush.com.

And I'll get the email and respond to it, okay? So we'll see you later. Music. Hey, thanks for listening to today's podcast. We'll be here next time. Keep the emails coming in and be sure to subscribe. Music. Thank you.