Training Log Archive: Ari-o

A friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body.

Today I was a friend.

Long day of driving/family/flat tires/etc ended up with a great road/trail run in Maine. Ran 8s going out and then on the way back laid down and ran sub-7s for a couple miles (downhill, gradually) feeling really good. All on what my dad would call a "dumb road" (an old woods road which actually went somewhere, actually). Yes to cool weather!

Ran home from work for a couple of things.

On the minus side, it was downpouring when I was going to run. On the plus side, I biked 16 miles, all on shared bikes, in only light rain.

How to cure a hangover. Go run stadia in the sun. You will sweat it out. Oh yes you will. Half a workout, because I had to get going.

So how to you pick up a car in Hampton, NH? You take the train to Newburyport, and ride bikes from there. With a heavy pack. Lovely day for a ride, though, to get a car that does things like have four operable cylinders, start without a prayer, have operable windows and doors and that's easy to slide a bike/skis in to. Hooray!

Also, I biked across a state line for the first time ever. This is super lame, although to my credit I have crossed fifteen separate state lines on foot. So that is a thing.

If I had been smart, I would have driven home after a day carousing around NH. But it was so nice—cool, crisp and windy—that I had to go for a trail run. 5 miles with 500m or so of climb later, I was pretty beat.

Biking to dinner with friends. Lots of traffic, thankfully little rain. Oh, made a stop for beer.

Biking home, a little tipsy and a lot faster. But it felt a whole lot faster. No traffic, though, nice! Managed 21 mph on the Putnam to Post Office segment, third best ever. No traffic made that easier.

Push ups, planks, burpees. Did not feel great, went pretty easy.

Ran across town to NP. Felt pretty icky. Ugh, frog/lump in throat, go away, and don't become more of a cold. Still pretty warm and muggy out. Boo.