Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

Early morning, home to the Safeway. For food and NY Times.

Back home, with food and the NY Times.

In the afternoon (a HOT one), the levees. Took a wrong turn by Moffett and ended up in a Hitchcock movie. First there were about 500 pelicans having a meeting on the levee, sitting on the wrong-turn trail. They slowly left, one by one, as I approached... landing off to the left in the Bay. Then, about 1000 ducks. Then, more pelicans. Then, more ducks... then, goats.

A dismal week. Had morning commitments both Thursday and Friday, then work... Visited the new place today to sign the rent. Palace of Cubic Zirconia.

Warmed up at De Anza, with Wyatt. Thorsten and Tapio were also there...

... and then, the special guest showed up: Mr. Sydryck! Fresh off his start-up job. I did 6×1000: 3:36 3:33 3:33 3:33 3:38 3:35. Wyatt paced me for #3, and Syd, for #4. Other times, the pack was quite a bit behind... Most of us did 5×.

If I keep improving like this at 4 s/1000 m per week, I'll be doing 15:00 5-kms by the end of the year. Bah.

I found Ms. Kastor's warm-up routine truly amusing. She is onto something. I've been skipping warm-ups before races for a few months now! I think warm-ups before distance events are evil, especially the stretching part. That part can only hurt you.

Test-ran a Red course at Telemark. Made two humongous errors, only one of which could have been in any way attributed to the map. My clean-run estimate for this Red would be 76' for me (~93 Red points as of now), which seemed 600 m too long.

The weather was warm and muggy, with some rain.