Thursday Feb 27 |
 | Bike 12:00 [2] | |
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| not much time today so I just warmed up and stretched out |
| Strength 4:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Feb 26 |
| Orienteering (night-o) 35:00 [3] *** 3 km (11:40 / km) +75m 10:22 / km | |
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| at prospect hill, the same course from 3 weeks ago, backwards. not sure about the exact time. it was cold this time, but the snow was super-hard, so I was mostly running right on top. only a few times I sank up to my knees. I took the gps, but I didn't do a very good job of attaching the antenna, so I have sections with no reception. I need to make an antenna vest or something dorky like that. also, my headlamp was gradually fading on the last half, and then it suddenly got really bright again. any idea why that would be? the batteries were probably cold, and I hadn't charged them since before last session. |
Tuesday Feb 25 |
| X-Training 15:00 [2] | |
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| Running 30:00 [3] 3.5 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
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| Strength 5:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Feb 23 |
| Bike 15:00 [2] | |
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| back feeling fine today. too bad it's raining |
| Running 30:00 [3] 3.38 mi (8:52 / mi) | |
| ahr:157 shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| ok so last week I learned that even if I'm feeling strong/fine at a slow pace, that doesn't mean that I have the mobility to go faster. I'm going to make even more effort to stretch out my hips and stuff. |
| X-Training (stairmaster) 15:00 [3] | |
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| this could be something that I can do hard/anaerobic without hurting myself. I need to feel tired once in a while. |
| Bike (bike cooldown) 5:00 [1] | |
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| Strength 10:00 [1] | |
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Saturday Feb 22 |
| X-Training 25:00 [2] | |
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| 10 bike, 10 stairmaster, 5 x-trainer. |
| Running 10:00 [2] 1.06 mi (9:26 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
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| Strength (crunches) 2:00 [1] | |
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Friday Feb 21 |
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| feeling better today but still resting. I started working on the A-meet courses for august while I was waiting around for my car to finish its 10,000 mi tuneup. |
Wednesday Feb 19 |
| Running 20:00 [2] 2.15 mi (9:18 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| yeah, my back still isn't feeling great. too fast last week. |
| Strength 5:00 [1] | |
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Monday Feb 17 |
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| yeah snow! it might have been fun to go run around but my back has been hurting again the last few days. this will be an easy week. |
Sunday Feb 16 |
| Bike 30:00 [2] | |
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| Strength 30:00 [1] | |
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Saturday Feb 15 |
| Running (trail) 1:05:21 [3] 7.0 mi (9:20 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| run in the fells with william and abi(!), who did a fair amount of additional running after I left them. it was cold, but the trail was great (hard snow). even a short test off the trail was pretty good ...a bit of powder over some very solid stuff. |
Thursday Feb 13 |
| Bike 8:00 [2] | |
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| Running 20:00 [4] 2.42 mi (8:15 / mi) | |
| max:177 shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| I did some easy hill intervals on the treadmill today. I think it was something like 5x4mins at 6% incline with 2 minutes of 1% in between. not sure about the distances here, I don't even remember how much the total was. my back feels a little funny now but at least it doesn't hurt... |
| Running 15:00 [3] 1.75 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| ahr:160 shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| in between + cooldown |
| Strength 12:00 [1] | |
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Wednesday Feb 12 |
| Bike 10:00 [2] | |
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| Running (tm) 20:00 [3] 2.47 mi (8:06 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| faster than usual today (~7:50/mi for the last 5-10mins), which feels ok so far. my left knee has been a little tight since monday, but feeling okay now. I have to remember that I've been running a lot less than usual, and to take it slow coming back.
I have averaged just 6 miles/week for the last 6 months (damn...). interestingly, I actually ran less for the whole last year (from today) than I did in the first 6 months of 2002, around 900 miles in both cases. if you didn't know how to calculate stuff like that, use the navigation links to "User Menu" -> "Export / Print..." |
Tuesday Feb 11 |
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| I was just surfing around looking for info about running snowshoes, and I found some pages about an antarctic marathon. apparently there was some drama regarding the results. see the links in the left column of the "official" page for other details. |
| Bike 17:00 [2] | |
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| on the recumbent today. usually I find it harder to get the HR up compared to the normal bike. today it wasn't a problem. it's also easier on the back. |
| Running (treadmill) 20:00 [3] 2.27 mi (8:47 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
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| Strength 12:00 [1] | |
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Sunday Feb 9 |
| Running (trail) 1:00:16 [3] 6.07 mi (9:55 / mi) +150m 5:44 / km | |
| ahr:167 shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| "long" run around the orange trail in the fells. not much in comparison to one year ago, but I'm happy to be training at all. very nice day, and the trail was all packed snow. |
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| my back is doing a bit better these days (still not great) but I'm at a point where I can pretty much do as much slow running as I want without major problems. fast running (long strides) is another story, so I still have a long way to go. I'm probably doing enough that it's worthwhile thinking about the types of workouts I'm doing e.g. long, interval, technical etc. (I haven't been doing that at all for about 6 months now.) long/slow runs are fine and terrain training seems to work ok (short strides?). speedwork is not good so far, but maybe I can do uphill intervals without pain.
goals for this season? obviously the main one is to shake this injury for good. without the possibility of speedwork, there's not too much hope for a smokin' performance at the team trials (not that I'm super excited about going back to switzerland where the injury seems to have originated). definately still planning a weekend trip to Jukola (maybe a night leg?). will I run blue at a-meets this spring? maybe. will we defend our relay champs title? that would be nice. in the slightly-longer term, I have my eye on the night-o champs and the classic champs (big $$) this year. |
Saturday Feb 8 |
| Bike 25:00 [2] | |
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| Strength 12:00 [1] | |
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Friday Feb 7 |
| Running (treadmill) 40:00 [3] 4.76 mi (8:23 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| major snowing outside. I put the tm on a random-ish hill program. made it slightly more interesting. going a bit faster, which felt fine. |
Thursday Feb 6 |
| Running (treadmill) 30:00 [3] 3.41 mi (8:47 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
| I was recruiting at an MIT career fair, and afterwards I snuck into the new zillion-dollar athletic complex to work out. yeah I guess it's sortof nice. except the incline on the treadmill was messed up so I think I was running downhill at first. |
| Strength 15:00 [1] | |
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Wednesday Feb 5 |
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| WOC 2006 in denmark. I was in Aarhus for a weekend in '96; the terrain is quite a bit more hilly than spring-cup-land. (yeah contours!) actually two of the graphics on the site are from there: 1 2
also, I meant to run at lunchtime today, but I left my shorts at home :( |
Tuesday Feb 4 |
| Bike 15:00 [2] | |
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| its raining today. I'm hoping that will help consolidate the snow cover so when its in the single digits tomorrow, it will be frozen solid and nice to run on top of. |
| Running 20:00 [3] 2.29 mi (8:44 / mi) | |
| ahr:158 shoes: Asics Gel Cumulus III |
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| Strength 5:00 [1] | |
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Monday Feb 3 |
| Orienteering (night-o) 38:13 [3] *** 3 km (12:44 / km) +75m 11:19 / km | |
| ahr:167 spiked:15/20c |
| at prospect hill in 2-10" of wet snow. nice view of boston from the eastern slopes. it was pretty bright, so I wouldn't have really needed the light except to read the map. |
Sunday Feb 2 |
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| downhill skiing with the monkeys. |
Saturday Feb 1 |
| Orienteering 52:09 [4] *** 6.5 km (8:01 / km) +138m 7:15 / km | |
| ahr:175 spiked:32/32c |
| two laps around the park-o course at stonehurst. the map is pretty much ready for the spring. the snow wasn't too bad (though spikes definately came in handy on the trails). I probably could have done it without the map. |
| Strength 18:00 [1] | |
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| at the gym afterwards |
