Training Log Archive: BigWillyStyle

C • Awesome! 3

Easy Bridle Trails jaunt with Jourdan before the evening CascadeOC board meeting. Our board meetings alternate between Kirkland and Seattle; I used to live ~3min from the Kirkland site, now I live ~3min from the Seattle site.

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The City of Redmond does a summer series of bi-weekly Wednesday evening 5k's at Grasslawn Park, which cost like 10 bucks and are great for someone like me who isn't interested in spending $40 every time for all the extra "yay!" and is just looking for someone to give him a starting line, a finish line, and hopefully someone(s) as fast or faster to chase.

Anyway, I totally forgot until yesterday that the first one was today and didn't account for a race-effort in my training plan, then I got tied up at work and arrived about two minutes before the run started and wasn't able to warm up at all. So I ended up just doing a weird negative-split thing where I started out uber-slow and consistently sped up until I was somewhere in the neighborhood of 5k pace by the end. Perhaps not the most useful training ever but oh well.

Almost accidentally ran over a snake on the path.

2 x 4k tempo loops around Seward Park, 7-8min rest

15:15 (3:49/k) ccw
15:27 (3:52/k) cw

It was about 85F when I started this workout, but being next to the water and running mainly in the shade ameliorated the heat a good bit and it didn't bother me. Seward Park can be some good people watching; I particularly enjoyed the guy who rolled by on a bike with an 90s-era boombox blasting that tragic hero of Canadian culture, young Mr. Bieber. "baby you should go and love yourself"

Side note: I was summonsed starting yesterday (side side note: apparently "summonsed" is a real word and not just a weird way of spelling summoned) to fulfill my civic duty at King County Superior Court, but sadly they ended up not needing my services and I didn't even get to go to the courtroom. This was the second time I've been called but not gotten on a jury; the first time (as a 19yo collegian on summer break) I successfully prevailed on the judge to let me go back to school instead. I would like to serve because I've always thought it would be an interesting experience, but I guess I'll have to wait another decade now.

Also came across this gem on the Court website:

...Were you summonsed by a court in Brooklyn? Brooklyn is in Kings County, New York. Seattle is in King County, Washington. Sometimes this creates confusion. If you were summonsed to a court in Brooklyn, please follow this link...

C • Brooklyn 1

Golden Gardens - Ballard Locks - Interbay - Downtown - Sodo - Beacon Hill - Rainier - Mercer Island

C • nice route 5

Mercer Island - Leschi - Madison Park - Arboretum - Interlaken - Eastlake - Fremont

A race best epitomized by this sequence, in which I spot two cones and a flag, and my reptile brain interprets them as three cones. "Dafuq?" Lots of silly mistakes and bad route choices and no focus or intensity.

C • I enjoyed the laugh when yo... 2

Leg 2 (my first leg) of the annual Cascade two-person relay; I teamed with my dad. Substantially better orienteering than the sprint, though I did overrun 5 which cost me some 15s.

Leg 4 (my second leg). Bobbled 2 for ~10s, may have taken a poor route to 3 for ~10s. Nikolay had too big of a headstart to be catchable, so we finished second. Woo Enger Management!