Training Log: Samantha

Event: New Bedford Half Marathon
 

trail run 27:03 [1] 2.48 mi (10:54 / mi)
shoes: Teva Trail Shoes

Easy morning run on this gorgeous, gorgeous day. It feels like I am back in Tucson. Or like it should be late April here. Will winter come back again or are we just starting spring early? Weather and daylight like this makes me wonder if I would ever be able to survive in a Scandinavian climate. The sunshine makes me so happy :)

Plodding along on the loop around Lost Pond. Going as slowly as I wanted. Got a bit stuck when running the trail through the swamp and had to walk and then jump from root to root. Made it interesting, but not speedy. Back was really sore all over when I woke up this morning, but the run loosened it up, as was the plan. So now some stretching, showering, coffeeing, paper writing, library book sale visiting (to buy kids books for my classroom - yay!!), hanging out in Bostoning, then more paper writing.

Tomorrow is the half and I am hoping to run under 95 minutes. Last year I was 97, so this seems reasonable. 90 seems out of reach, since that would mean running each mile 30 seconds faster than last year.

C • basking 4

road run 16:19 1.67 mi (9:46 / mi)
ahr:144 max:160 shoes: Asics 2130

trail run (threshold) 14:26 1.87 mi (7:43 / mi)
ahr:171 max:179 shoes: Asics 2130

An attempt at a threshold run with Dad but I just couldn't get my HR up. Running most of the time with HR around 173, no matter that I was pushing hard. Seems that something if off in me, so we only did one loop instead of 2. Sick? Tired? Just plain slow? I don't know :)

C • threshold heart rate 3

road run 20:56 1.88 mi (11:08 / mi)
ahr:130 max:173 shoes: Asics 2130

Note

At work for 11.75 hours today. Came home and have 2 hours until I fall asleep. Tried to do work for my classes, but really just spent the time staring at the computer screen. Was planning on lifting and maybe even running, but I stayed at work too long and it was well past dinner when I came home. Oh well.

trail run 1:35:56 8.0 mi (11:59 / mi)
ahr:135 max:165 shoes: Teva Trail Shoes

Long run with Dad in the Blue Hills. Some very soggy trails and so we were slowed down by having to cut across country or jump across streams. Then Dad let us stop and dig canals on the side of the trail so that the water could drain. I love doing that :) I find it incredibly satisfying to dig a canal and see the water begin to flow rapidly down it and off the trail. Just like I did when I was a kid and Lindsay, Hill and I would spend entire orienteering meets in the stream beds daming and umdaming the stream. So we did some trail maintenance along the way by helping about 3 major wet spots drain.

Garmin took a long time to find satellites.

C • Trail maintenance 5

trail run 29:41 2.7 mi (11:00 / mi)
ahr:132 max:154 shoes: Asics 2130

Trying to stop my watch between warm up and the actual workout so that I can get batch upload to work for me. The watch didn't find satelites until about 10 minutes into the warm up. Dad and I headed to Blue Hills to do the hill repeats that we did a lot of last year.

road run (R pace hills) 24:46 2.28 mi (10:52 / mi)
ahr:148 max:180 shoes: Asics 2130

10 times up the access road to the tree stump and the jogging back to the bottom with PG's map from team trials in 03. :) Although my HR never got into zone 5, I was running them as hard as I could. I feel like that measns I should log them as a zone 5. This is where the garmin gets tricky. Also, it's annoying to me that the splits on the watch truncate and the splits that show up online round. They look like completely different splits then. I wish I could get them to go out to the nearest 10th of a second without having to go into the watch to get it.
My splits rounded to the nearest tenth:
49.8
52.7
52.3
50.0
52.0
50.0
50.9
50.0
51.7
50.6

Ok, and twice I had to round up to 50 even. I felt faster when it just truncates it on the watch! :) I can't remember what my splits were last year, but I think I was running every one under 50. Hmmmm.....

C • oh no! 3

trail run 16:23 1.5 mi (10:55 / mi)
ahr:139 max:166 shoes: Asics 2130

warm down.

road run 45:00 [2] 4.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
shoes: Asics 2130

Out in the cold rain, after Dad rescued me from school because I had a flat tire. Glad that Dad came so that I didn't have the change the tire in the driving rain by myself. Once I was out running it wasn't so bad. The rain first soaked through my pants right above my knees and that was the coldest part.

rowing machine 15:00 [2]

Note

Ross and I came up with the perfect logo:

C • Logo 16