Training Log Archive: Ari-o

This week's Strava art club: bunny rabbits! I found two in PB, one 14 miles, one 13, with a bit more climb. I did the 14 miler today, because why the eff not. The ears were up hills and then along the coast, at mile 9 I felt pretty great, but then got pretty bonky, the feet were flat and rough. Pushed a bit at the end over the last hill, at least. The 26.2 in a couple of weeks will be interesting, at least I don't have to BQ!

Out for a reasonably fast-ish lap of the west side of Mission Bay in the evening. Pushed to make it 8 miles in an hour.

Nadia wanted to run fast for a mile. She left the house sprinting, and it was pretty fast. Felt like 7s. First couple blocks were at a 6:30 pace.

But wheezing set in, apparently yoga != running. We made it a mile in under 9, and I took 8s the rest of the way home with no real route in mind. Stopped to watch the disc of the sun slip below the Pacific horizon, which was pretty magical.

C • Sunsets 3

New run today. Up the canyon up the new bike path, then up that for a ways. Then across the railroad and onto some trails. The park is apparently closed, too, but the trails had no one out there. I used the trail back down the canyon for a ways, took a wrong trail across a sketchy stream crossing and dead-ended at the railroad construction (light rail, plus duplicating the existing single track main line) and back, then a not well-used trail which had some nice bits, then went through some river bottom and then ended in a fence at the back of a parking lot. Then a road home.

There are probably better routes to do with these trails! But legs felt okay.

So April.

Not exactly the April I'd been thinking of. I was assuming right now I'd be doing my last hard track workout, and then ramping down towards the marathon.

And now, not.

So what does April hold? Well, I have bounding poles now, so some bounding. Yoga/stretching or strength every day. And, running.

I've never managed a month with more than 8 miles per day in a month, which would be 240 for the month. 300 as a reach goal. Without injuries obviously. And 26.2 on April 20, because, of course.

Ran out to the beach with Nadia, then she turned back for a three miler and I turned up the hills and … didn't exactly start going faster. Up to the top, down across Alta La Jolla, then a left and down and up.

Felt slow and tired. Humid out. Legs feeling the miles?

But then pizza. Always pizza.

Yoga sculpt.

This had weights. I can log it.

Out to try the new carbon hiking poles for a go. Park was closed but on the other side it didn't say anything. Ran a loop and then a few bounds of the park. Not a very long bound; only about 20m up, but steep. Was out of breath at the top, but my legs are tired.

April beckons.

Ran the other way around Mission Bay, avoided some 6 foot boundaries, and there was very little traffic when I was running in the shoulder of a highway. Sea World was eerily closed, and then the bike paths around the bay were sort of closed, so I ran some in the road, which was kind of silly, but again, no traffic.

Didn't feel great, but not too bad. Mid-7s.

There was sunset, so Nadia and I ran down for it at her speed, which was a nice cool down.

And a decent sunset above an abandoned beach.