Training Log Archive: bbrooke

Neighborhood walk.

Zillions of RMOC / RMOF web updates and email follow-ups. Also, updates to membership database, composed next email update, and RMOC Facebook post.

Event: Holy Cow Trail Stampede 5K / 10K / 10M
 

I only registered for this race b/c I was able to transfer my entry from an event that turned out to be on the same weekend as the Flying Pig back in April.

Also, I was supposed to do a 10-mile training run last weekend -- but got peer-pressured into doing the 10K Evergreen Trail Race with my running group friends -- and this event added a 10-mile option a few weeks ago.

We had sunny, perfect weather (not too hot at all), and the course wasn't as mind-numbingly boring as I had expected (it was an out-and-back along a concrete path).

I wasn't planning to aggressively "race" this; I just looked at it as a supported training run. But the race atmosphere kept me from getting lazy pace-wise (which is what I tend to do on long training runs when I'm by myself...).

Afterwards -- free beer with race bib and food purchase at a local brewery.

Neighborhood walk.

- Created HTML email newsletter; located, uploaded & embedded relevant photos.

- Post for RMOC's Facebook page.

- Located & counted bibs for Sverre; sent email update.

- Located & inventoried Dymo labels; started on layout for 2018 RMOF packets & bibs; got super-annoyed with a repeating blank page that I can't figure out how to get rid of in Word mail merge...

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- Ran one mile to warm up.

- 3 x (4 x 400) -- "at 5k race pace or faster", with one minute of rest between laps within each set, and three minutes of rest between sets.

2:08 - 2:07 - 2:02 - 2:01
1:57 - 1:58 - 1:57 - 1:56
1:55 - 1:57 - 1:54 - 1:54

- Ran & walked one mile to cool down.

- Ran a half mile to warm up.

- Assignment: 50 minutes (five laps) on the Tyler Ave hill loop. (I did this on my own at lunchtime since I have an appointment this evening.)

When I started my first loop, a Comcast crew was setting up across the street (they're installing a new fiber network throughout Louisville). I think they were still milling around when I started my second loop ~10 minutes later. When I was about to start my third loop after another ~10 minutes, I noticed a strong natural gas smell and a shimmer in the air, and the work crew had all moved down the street a bit.

I ran down to ask if they knew there was a gas leak -- "yes, we already called it in". Yet they let me hang out at that corner for a minute or so and then run right past the leak (where it was actually spewing out and buckling the asphalt) without warning me or yelling at me to get away. Cars, pedestrians, and cyclists were also passing right by it. Good grief! Seems like they could have at least blocked off that area with their trucks while they waited for the fire department to arrive...(which was 14 minutes later -- from a quarter-mile away).

So I finished the rest of my 50 minutes on the less-steep rec center loop.

Afternoon excitement!

- Ran and walked a half mile to cool down.

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Walked to & from rec center.

Vinyasa yoga class at the rec center.