Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Ran the same loop as yesterday, the other way around. Beautiful evening of running and watching traffic jams. The BU Bridge was crushed beyond imagination (concert at Fenway, which is apparently worse than ballgame). Ran the river doing 30 30s, because why not push two days before a 50k. Oh, wait.

I saw a bus coming down Pearl Street as I was running home. I tracked this bus as it tried to get through the rotary. It took it 55 minutes to go 0.7 miles. The passengers could have gotten off, walked to the other side of the river, and gotten on three buses before. What a junkshow.

C • BU Bridge 2

Loop along the river. Uneventful, stretching the tired legs mostly, saw sister walking to the T at the end!

So this was a new NP workout. And a hard NP workout.

In the past we've partnered and done groups of five stairs. Which is like running 800s with lots of rest, and running them hard but not all out.

This is like 400s, minimal rest, and going all out. Wish I'd had a HRM for this. Took the time from Strava moving time, which probably accounts for some hands-on-knees recovery still in L3 or L4.

My partner and I made it around in 18 minutes and back in 21. 18 still being slower than Tom Stark can run it on his own. I got the extra sections at the start and end. It was hard.

That's two hard workouts in two days, so maybe I'll taper a bit for Sunday.

Track! Sister birthday dinner in the evening, so morning track circles with November Project offshoot.

Small group today. I suggested we do drills and strides (because at 6:30 I need those) and they said "wow, a real warm up." Sort of, I guess?

Track was 4-4-4-4 8-8-8 4-4

That sounded … fun? Ran the first 400 in 75 seconds, which seemed fast. The next were 80, 78, 77, which seemed a bit more like it. Then the 800s in 2:51, 2:53, 2:53, so those were okay, but I wasn't feeling super fast. This group stands around after the interval, so I wound up running 200s between the 400s and doing every other one sort of on my own.

Then after the 800s, two more 400s. The first I wasn't that fast on: 79. But left it all out on the last one and came in 75 flat, which is not too bad for an 400 for me. And decided not to do another 800. 4000m of track last week, 4800m of track this week. Working back in to it. And the 800s felt a lot better.

Cool down, interstitials.

Decided to take a rest day today. Legs have been tired/sluggish-feeling, so maybe they just needed a day off.

Also returned the Garmin I've been whining about for the last couple of months. Did not hurt that I got a Suunto pro deal. But really, it was steps down from the 2014-era Garmin I had (still have, and might use this week) in GPS accuracy, elevation, and usability. Sure it had more features, but I'd rather not have it crap the GPS bed every couple of weeks.

Putting my trust in the Finns. I mean, I do it with rollerskis, so why not GPS watches too?

Was going to go long run in the morning, but was kind of stuffed up when I woke up. Then had a family memorial service in the afternoon, so evening long run. I felt okay, but slow. Went around Cambridge on a bunch of streets (there's a thing called CityStrides where you can try to run an entire city) that is kind of fun, so part of the slow may have been that it was dark and I was turning a lot and it was dark on sidewalks and such.

Still felt slow.

C • CityStrides 1

Out to Littleton for the first time in a while. Skied the short loop, bringing up the sweep of a group, mostly because I had to find a peeportunity at one point. The focus was on V1, so we found some hills. Before the Harvard downhill Cate told the assorted skiers that the hill was "kind of big."

New pavement on Horse Farm Hill is quite nice.