Sunday Aug 19 |
 | Trail Run 3:48:48 [3] 20.8 mi (10:59 / mi) | |
| weight:140lbs |
| Savoy Mtn trail race, my sixth (and apparently last, since rumor has it the race won't be put on again). I hate this race: some of the worst "trails" in New England. But I wanted to do a long run today, and the weather was perfect (50 at the start, 68 at the finish), so why not? I felt pretty good to the end, and did very little walking; but some of the "running" was incredibly slow, especially through the really muddy sections, of which there were many even though this was probably a better than average year (both feet were totally submerged in mud a couple times). My hip bothered me the whole way, and made me very cautious on downhills. Blisters were forming that I nipped in the bud by tightening my laces at the turnaround. But the tight left shoe might have contributed to pain from my neuroma over the last hour. And so it goes. Splits: 56:42, 33:03, 18:48 (1:48:33), 1:10 (fixing my shoes at the top), 14:30, 37:28, 1:07:03 (1:59:05). |
Saturday Aug 18 |
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| Spent an hour and a half mapping new trails at Mt Tom near Lake Bray. There's one main new twisty bike trail, blue blazed; but then there are some less distinct trails that are borderline for putting on the map. |
Friday Aug 17 |
| cycling 1:00:42 [3] | |
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| Westhampton-Leeds loop, 18.1 miles. |
Thursday Aug 16 |
| Trail Run 24:45 [3] 3.15 mi (7:51 / mi) | |
| weight:140lbs |
| Went down with Adam to the Thurs. 5k race in Holyoke. Plan was to pace him to a good time without him feeling like it was a "race". He's done almost no running this summer (other than Colorado), but he'll be doing cross country at Northampton High in the fall. The cahllenge for me was to figure out what the pace should be. It was warm and muggy and Adam had been at tennis camp for 3 hours with an hour rest before the run. I think I hit it just right. Mile splits were, roughly, 8:00, 7:55, 7:50, with a faster finish. And it didn't start feeling hard for Adam until the last mile. I'm sure he will go a lot faster in races this fall. And for me: a very pleasant, middle of the pack, run! |
| Trail Run 4:00 [2] 0.4 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
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| Brief warm-up. |
Wednesday Aug 15 |
| Trail Run 51:20 [2] 5.3 mi (9:40 / mi) | |
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| XC course from Smith after lifting. A very slow jog, practicing the rogaine shuffle. (I was going to say "a snail's pace", but I read recently that a garden snail moves at about 50 yards per hour, and I was quite a bit faster than that.) |
Tuesday Aug 14 |
| Trail Run 1:31:30 [3] 9.86 mi (9:16 / mi) | |
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| Called Peter to see if I could get him off his lazy butt. It worked. Ran with him on Toby: race course to the hairpin turn, back via the power line. Felt OK chugging up the mountain at a steady pace. But pretty low energy by the time we got back. Hip sore but runnable. Forerunner said 9.55, sportstrack 9.86. 39:37 (gate), 20:20 (hairpin), 31:11. |
Monday Aug 13 |
| Trail Run 41:16 [3] 4.9 mi (8:25 / mi) | |
| weight:140lbs |
| Outer loop plus one lap around fields from gym. My hip seems to be back to where it was six weeks ago: so no fast running between now and the rogaine. Otherwise, I felt pretty good -- light on my feet, now that I've reached my goal weight. Five days of Boy Scout Camp food seems to have trimmed off a couple of pounds. Just as effective as food poisoning. |
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| C • :-) 3 |