Sunday Dec 31 |
 | Trail/Road Run 28:56 [3] 4.5 mi (6:26 / mi) | |
| weight:151lbs |
| Slow end of year jog, me and my FR, included the meadows loop (1.37 miles) and the a couple loops around the Smith fields (.71 miles each), one in 5:18 to make the heart pump a little faster.
I'm wiped out from my D.C. work trip. Friday night, at 4:15 AM, I got woken by a fire alarm (in the room, right next to the bed, with a woman's voice incessantly repeating "a fire has been reported in the hotel, please evacuate ... ). I took my time getting out of bed and getting clothes on, expecting it to be a false alarm. But when I opened the door to the hallway, it was filled with acrid smelling smoke, enough to bother you when you breathed it in. I headed quickly, with lots of other stunned people in various states of undress, to the nearest stairwell and down nine flights to exit into the cold. Turns out the fire was two floors down on the 7th floor, and some of my colleagues who had their room there had to crawl to the exit to avoid the thick smoke. Apparently, some unidentified, probably drunk, philosopher lit a couch on fire with a cigarette in a lobby area, in spite of the hotel being smoke free. I finally was allowed to go back to my room at 8:00 AM. I took a freight elevator up after wending through the various waterfalls coming through the ceiling in the lobby area. Then back to work with four more hours of interviews starting at 9:00.
I drove back that night, arriving in Northampton at 2:30 AM Sat. morning. The trip included a detour driving around downtown Waterbury at 1:00 AM, looking for an open gas station, with the car running mostly on vapors. New Years resolution: fill the gas tank when the needle is still on the red empty line, instead of waiting until it drops out of sight. |
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| C • A "tobacco" cigarette? 4 |
Friday Dec 29 |
| machines (elliptical) 30:00 [3] | |
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| Again, after a day of interviewing. Better than doing nothing. This is my rest week before ramping up after the first. |
Thursday Dec 28 |
| machines (elliptical) 30:00 [3] | |
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| In D.C., at Marriot Wardman Park hotel exercise center, after a long day interviewing job candidates. |
Tuesday Dec 26 |
| Road Run 36:24 [4] 5.0 mi (7:16 / mi) | |
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| The old CTC race course in Amherst/Hadley. Effort was moderately hard, and I was a bit under my goal of 7:20 per mile, though fading a bit towards the end. Flat course and day off helped. Also, back a lot better, so only had my foot problem to deal with. And a stomach cramp the last couple miles, due to an ill-advised doughnut.
Good news (for a change) on the FR front. FR clocked this certified course at 5.02. And I think where I start and finish makes it slightly longer than the original race course (whose markings on the road are now long gone), suggesting FR may have been spot on. The time recorded above is the time at 5 miles, not 5.02. |
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| C • My spies tell me that you were... 4 |
| Road Run 7:08 [3] 0.86 mi (8:17 / mi) | |
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| Warm-up. |