Tuesday Recreational Yogging: OLP as Normal

As most of you saw, Onondaga Lake Park will have construction for a while (see link). We will still meet at the park at the usual spot this week. We will do a test run with the construction and see how it goes. Make sure to check here next week in case we need to change locations. It sounds like we can make it work, but we may opt for a field trip!

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/onondaga_lake_park_recreation_trail_construction_work_begins.html#incart_river_default

This week will be quarter miles for anyone doing speedwork. I don't have anything else on the schedule, so let me know if anyone has any training needs. We can support anyone who would like help!

I hope everyone enjoyed a less intense week after the Boilermaker. Since we had a 90 minute and 6 hour race, Aaron and I decided to give ourselves a nice, easy week. It was good to let our bodies recover, but it was also a great chance to mentally recover from the stress of that kind of race. We did lots of walking, a couple of easy runs, an easy swim, and a bike ride. It was a great recovery week, but now I'm back out there and increasing the intensity again. How long does everyone else give themselves after a big race? Week? Two? 1 day?

--Kelly :)

Terry's addition:
For anyone that did not read Kelly's excellent 12 points of what she learned last week, please go read that. Escalade and I used at least a few of the points at the Boilermaker. We were not fully prepared this year, we were slower this year, and we walked several times this year, but at the end of the race, I asked which version she enjoyed more...and Escalade said that she enjoyed the slower race, where she was able to enjoy the entire 9.3 miles, over the traditionally more ideal race from last year, where she maxed out her performance time-wise but was red-lining for the last 5k and not able to enjoy anything in that stretch.

From my perspective, the Boilermaker delivered once again. It's crowded at the start, it's crowded at the post race party, and it's almost always a very hot day, but it remains the areas greatest race. For the second straight year, Escalade and my outfits were a plea for the runners and the crowd to spur us on, and they did not disappoint. To say we heard "dozens" of cheers would be way too low, so I'll go with "hundreds" of times a fellow runner or the crowd along the streets 'cheered for Erin'. It was, once again, an amazing experience that I hope Erin will always remember. For those of you who wear headphones or blend in, I encourage you to play to the Boilermaker crowd one of these years - it can be as simple as being on Team Beef - but wear something that the crowd can respond to, leave the headphones at home, and see how different of a race experience you can have.

Now, for the colorful part. The following "photos" are all screen captures from marathonfoto.com who seems to be doing a great job as they got all of us TRYers more than once.

Malinda (what IS she doing in that first shot?):