Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Event: Eastern States POSTPONED
 

"Yoga sculpt" so it was a decent amount of core and had some burning. About 20 minutes of work, ten of lying down at the end.

Planning to do some yoga every day. I have the time.

April plans:

Read books
Bake things
Run
Yoga
Learn how to dance

The last two I will have some help with. And the baking, too, which will be necessary.

C • Time 3

Nice run, up the mountain, with a little extension, then whee down the other side to La Jolla, then back, and finding some hills on the way back. First up a little hill to the old trolley ROW, then a super punchy hill up to Kate Sessions, and then a little loop to hit 10 miles.

By super punchy: 77 ft in 0.07 miles: a 19% grade. Strava segment is "Loring Cliff" the bulk of it at 22%.

Also spied a nice bounding hill and my hiking poles arrived when I got back!

After yoga (pretty chill, good stretching, but not really much core) Nadia wanted to learn to run. Last time was a mile, this time was two. To the beach and back at the end of sunrise. Beach was 1.3, and I said we could stop when we reached the lemon box on the way back, or two miles, whichever came first. They came at the same point.

I wish I could double my distance every time I went out running.

Out and back to the start of Strava Art!

Dani posted on TheFacebook that we should all go out and make Strava Art, first challenge, make a robot. And I am living on a street grid. So I went to make a robot, well, a robot on a surfboard, because the city banned surfing. And the beach.

I did have to run one block on the closed boardwalk above the empty beach to do this. And halfway through the run I realized I could make a slightly more-realistic surfboard by changing up my route (deftly scribbled onto a piece of paper) and would just have to remember what to retrace. Almost effed up a couple of times but stayed the course.

Did see a couple of groups not social distancing well, alas. Although one was a group of Gen Z-ers who had repurposed a street intersection as a kickball diamond, so that's not too bad.

Morning yoga sculpt thing with Nadia.

I still feel like Larry David when I do yoga.

New route today, south to the bay, along a path to another path, then up Pacifica because how much of a hill can it be?

420 feet over 0.7 miles is how much. 12% average grade. Unrelenting.

I might have to go do repeats there some time.

Nadia wanted to run a mile.

So we ran a mile.

The block lengths here have nothing to do with, well, with anything. No number to a mile, no feet per block, at least not a round number. It's infuriating.

Lovely day here, cool and cloudy and breezy. Legs feeling better. Went up to the cutover I ran yesterday, across, up to the top of the mountain where the park was closed, then up another hill, then back down to the cutover, across, and down.

Fun little tidbit: last two miles were:

7:00.0
7:59.9

Bracketing!

They closed all the parks, which is dumb. Beaches, too, which means no surfing lessons. Good thing I didn't buy a wetsuit. There's a park nearby which has a grassy hill that looks perfect for two minute bounding. I'm ordering trekking poles. Can't stop won't stop will maintain social distance.

Short run, nice around the block vibe. No cars, some other runners, and free lemons with a little joggle at the end. Legs needed a break today, but felt okay.

Klaebo 30 minute workout. About 25 minutes of work, and learning Norwegian (not really).

Then watched him vanquish some Russians.

Legs feeling tired. Needed a flatter run, went around the bay. Decent social distancing but running hilly roads is definitely lonelier.

Also tired from an early call this morning. But legs were definitely having the feels by the end.