Training Log Archive: ebone

Ran to Woodland, did the later couple miles of the high school cross country course (including the 1.9 km upper loop twice), and ran home. It was a very hot evening. The sweat poured, and my heart rate was high. My legs were fine, but I felt somewhat uncoordinated running today. Maybe that's because I'm not running every day.

Kayaked around Green Lake with Liz. My right hand went numb a few times toward the end of our paddle. It felt like a blood flow issue, even though I was releasing my grasp in between right-blade strokes. I was paddling with quite a bit of force, and when I let up a bit, the sensation quickly returned.

Set controls, swapped cards, and picked up some controls for poker orienteering at Lincoln Park. My legs were tired but not sore from the 3000m yesterday.

Rode from U-district to NSCC's Sand Point Education Center to meet Nic for his bike commute to work. My legs felt pretty good today.

Rode with Nic from Sand Point to PMSI downtown (8 miles in about 30 minutes), then rode to Terry's in Fremont (3.6 miles in about 16 minutes). My legs felt a bit on the tired side, and my heart rate stayed pretty low.

At the Club Northwest All-Comer's meet at Edmonds District Stadium, I ran one warm up lap in a three-person tow with Bill (in the middle) and Terry (in the back), then we ran the jogger's mile. Our predicted time was 7:40, but we ended up running 7:47, after a 1:50 first lap. Part of our slowness was Bill's and my paranoia after having run over 20 seconds faster than we had predicted for the jogger's mile a few weeks earlier.

The jogger's mile is a predicted time competition in which one is not allowed to wear a watch, and the race clock is turned off after the runners complete the first of the four laps. Breaking five minutes results in automatic disqualification, and the runner to come closest to his or her predicted time is the winner.

At 7 seconds off, we were better than most of the 50-person field, but we were well off the 2-second margin of error of the winner. 7 seconds off isn't too bad, given that none of us has much experience with three-way towing. The best thing is that the towing enabled Terry to easily equal her best time for a mile, despite the fact that she has been doing almost no running training.

Warmed up with Bill to Pine Ridge Park, through the park, and back to Edmonds District Stadium. I felt pretty good, but Bill felt lousy--probably still tired from the Seattle Night & Day, in which he and Heidi walked and ran 41 miles.

Ran the 3000 meter race at the All-Comer's meet. Bill and I showed up expecting to run a 10,000 meter race this evening, and I was bitterly disappointed to learn that I had remembered wrong: the 10k race had been the week before. Anyway, I ran a pretty well paced race and took fourth in a large field of runners, knocking a few seconds off my 9:47 from the 3k four weeks ago.

I probably could have run somewhat faster with a bolder first half, but only the first few laps felt good today, and I was afraid of dying, since I've been doing very little high-intensity training.

200 meter splits: 40.4 159, 40.4 166, 40.3 167, 38.9 170, 39.2 173, 38.5 174, 39.7 173, 39.2 173, 39.2 175, 38.6 175, 39.4 174, 38.0 176, 37.0 179, 36.1 182, 36.4 178
1000 meter splits: 3:19.2 + 3:15.2 + 3:06.9 = 9:41.3

Warm down jogging after 3k race. I wore my waffle racers for part of this, and my lower calves were somewhat sore. They haven't been trained for hard use in this range of motion, and they'll probably hurt some tomorrow.

Paddled around Green Lake with Liz. My left shoulder and upper arm hurt at first, as if there was some sort of strain or sprain or nerve pinch, but I felt fine after a while. We did one full lap of the lake and one out-and-back to the South edge of East Green Lake bay. We reached that point in 9 minutes staring out on our full lap, 9 minutes again on the second trip, and 9.5 minutes back to the dock (South/upwind). We reached Duck Island in 24 minutes (in comparison with my previous fastest of 25), but we took almost 34 minutes to complete the lap. I think I've done a bit faster.

Ran from Terry's, through Woodland, along Green Lake to East Green Lake, then home up the hill. I felt good, except for a full stomach from the COC board meeting/potluck.

Rode to Terry's.