Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Evening run, first up to the top of the hill, park now open. Great view! Then down, and there's an old road which is private but open to foot travel which is quite nice.

Then into deepest darkest La Jolla, scoping out what is actually a climbing loop, where you run across a bridge and then the road curves around and goes under itself. In a residential neighborhood. Plus a nice looking trail starting here, might be part of an upcoming loop.

Then back without going back up over the hill. Nadia went to put her bike away and found the garage is a black widow colony, so we might have some fun with poison tomorrow.

C • poison 2

Event: CANCELLED - 41st Annual West Point National Event
 

Moar coar.

Beach and back, slow pace.

Scorcher today. 80s again, hot sun. Evening run. Marine layer moved in, so clammy but not particularly cold. Good time to take off the shirt (nipple chafing). But a nice run with some hills mixed in.

Weather didn't cooperate with tons of miles this week, but looks like it should get progressively a little cooler and dryer this upcoming week.

Long, zoomy day, then it was warm in the afternoon, and then I found that the state updated its traffic data, then dinner, so a late night run. Dark, headlamp, and very very few cars. Still hot, except for the hollow on Alta La Jolla where the road dips into a eucalyptus grove and the temperature went down 5 or 10 degrees.

Legs feeling okay, not great.

I have gone 102 mi in 7 days by foot. Mostly on trails, of course, but 8200m of vert. I should probably try to break that if I'm going for 100. Biggest mileage training week was at MSA, 145 mi. Most hours, 33, hut traverse. Most vert: >9000.

Of course, in pre-AP days, I logged 165 miles in a week on an aborted PCT attempt, and 169.4 on my biggest week on the AT. And of course, I have those data.

I talked a good game and then …

It was (still is) in the 80s. Hot.
I have had a full long day of zoom.
Legs were tired (but not pain really).
Also, I think after running 45 miles in three days I needed to eat more food.
So after a short run I decided dinner was a better idea, especially since we'd roasted a tray of vegetables.

Should get cooler this weekend.

Yoga with weights again. I had a webinar and listened on earbuds during it. I did the first bits, got nice and sweaty, and then had to skip a few minutes of nap time for a meeting.

Oof, warmer this week. Waiting for the sun to be down a bit before going for the run. Not bad, although I was struggling at the end. The stairway leading up to one of the bridges was open so I have somewhere to do COVID-19 minutes of stairs.

Ran down Mission Beach and came back just in time to see the sun slipping down to the ocean. Getting dark by the time I was getting home, though.

Ooh!

SD reopened some parks, including the nice bounding hill up the street.

No need to pound my legs into more concrete than necessary.

My legs feel way too good right now.

26.2 at 8s, and no pain. No chafing. No DOMS. So, why not go for a 10 miler? They reopened the trails so I took a route which has a couple miles of trails, some hills, mostly roads. Legs feel good. Feet feel good. Nice and easy 8s again, no need to open up too much, and it felt like a four miler.

I think I may go for 300 this month. Only have to average just over 12 for the next 9 days. If I can manage a half for the next five days, I'll run 100 miles in a week. Never done that before.

C • Don't ramp up too fast... 2

Don't run Boston.

But do run 26.2.

Headed out at 7 a.m. = 10 a.m. eastern. No buses, no start corrals, no national anthem, no shuffling to the start line. No 6:15 mile down the hill, either. Ran 7s out around Mission Bay with the Mission Beach extension, which is exactly a 9 mile loop. First loop went pretty well, carrying water, cool and cloudy, sprinkling a touch at the start, just about 8s, a little faster at the start. Stopped in, filled water, ate snacks. That's nice.

Second loop was a bit more of a struggle, but kept in the low 8s. Sun came out right about the end.

More water, restroom … each stop about 5 minutes. Brain not at 100%, but I made it out, with a pacer/support vehicle (Nadia on a bicycle) and a bottle of ice water. Warmer in the sun, but just did the out-and-back down Mission Beach, so no climbs up over the bridges. I narrated the whole way "okay, so now we're passing the November Project cheer station, and now we're coming into Chestnut Street" and even pushed a little up some of the "hills." A little faster on this leg, right around 8, and a nice push the last mile up the hill to the finish line (a parked UPS truck).

I am super-duper bummed to miss Boston, but this helped, somewhat.

Still, right now it's 47 in Boston, with only a touch of headwind, and appears that the winds have been pretty much calm along most of the course. My Bostons have been 45 and pouring, 70 and sunny, 45 and pouring. This would have been damn near perfect, the best weather since 2013.

It's possible that September will be 65˚ with a tailwind (actually, a tailwind is more likely then than April). It won't be 55 … Boston has never stayed below 55 on September 14. (Most likely, it won't happen, because Covid and all.)

Well there's always next year. I'm not injured, so far, and only have to run 12.5 per day the rest of the month to hit 300 miles. At 174 miles for the month, I'm just 26 short of my biggest month ever. I think I can get there!