Training Archive: RosstopherIn the 7 days ending 2007-08-25:
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Saturday Aug 25 | ||
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| The Great NY State Fair!
the main event planned for the weekend. Wandered around in the blazing heat (~91) with Sean and his parents and Arianne. literally the first thing I did when I got inside was walk over to a booth and buy fried dough :) My goal was to always have something fried in my hand to be eating. The next stop on the tour was the dairy building to see the butter sculpture and to drink cheap milk. I had about 6 cups so I was starting to feel pretty good about life. Next curly fries were consumed, and then some sour apple licorice. It was getting to be about lunch time so I had some BBQ ribs and some fresh made potato chips. back to the milk bar to have a drinking contest with Sean. Just who could drink the fastest. No contest really, because I'm really good at drinking milk. All throughout the day we wandered past booths and checked out all the rabbits and chickens and cows and went up in the ferris wheel and toured some old railroad cars and perhaps most importantly saw Big Norm , a 1600 lb pig who was 8 feet long and gihugic. I'm not sure what to say about a pig that tips the scales at almost 12 G. He has a website though http://www.worldsbigpig.com/p-2.html We collapsed on the grass to watch some cool five nations native american dances and almost feel asleep. This was a sign that six hours of walking around had made us tired, so we decided to say goodbye to the fair. a note: NY has a state muffin- the Apple Muffin adopted in 1987 After the fair we went to a drive in movie!! whoo hoo. my first time, and it was amazing. Jackie Chan was good. Rush Hour 3 was all I could have expected and my intense loyalty to Jackie means that I will go and see rush hour 4 just as soon as it comes out :) | ||
| C • Drive in and State Fair 6 | ||
Friday Aug 24 | ||
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| no running. resting the leg and looking forward to a nice weekend in Rochester. 6 hours of driving is pretty dull. Not getting to the library in time to pick up some books on CD was a poor reality to face. Very nice to finally get out of the car though. Listened to a classical guitar CD on repeat for most of Massachusetts. not bad. | ||
Thursday Aug 23 | ||
| road run 39:00 [3] | |
| running from work to Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up an anniversary present for samantha. but shhhh it's a secret. then from bb&b to fresh pond where I was about 80 minutes late for the CSU training. I got to say hi to everyone who showed up, get a map, and pick up streamers. I tried out a phrase in lithuanian on Alma, the lithuania who is in boston for a bit, it was close enough that she understood what I was trying to say "Du Labai Grazi" .
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| Trail run 35:00 [3] | |
| orienteering around fresh pond is more like a trail run than orienteering. I had lots of issues though, didn't go very straight at all. Was enjoying the feel of running without a backpack though. was nigh impossible to find the last two streamers in the dark. Up on vague trails. had to go to the middle of the circle and sorta feel around for something plastic-y. A tendon on the back of my right knee feels a bit weird... I assume too much running with a backpack after not enough base training. doesn't feel super serious, just annoying.
Alexi set 12 streamers and after each control or pair of controls you had to come back to the start triangle :) would have been great to do in different forkings with other runners :) | ||
| road run 22:00 [3] | |
| running from fresh pond to davis square after training. I really wanted a milk shake, but a swarm of tufts frosh got in line right before I got there, so I went to the store 24 and got a half gallon of cookie dough and a bag of cape cod jalapeno and cheddar chips :) mmm. I ate ice cream as I walked over to Gavin's house, with chips as course two in my evening meal. | ||
| C • Bleurgh... 7 | ||
Wednesday Aug 22 | ||
| road run 25:00 [3] 3.5 mi (7:08 / mi) | |
| running over to Jenn's for game night. keep meaning to run to work, but not getting up when I should. new shoes feel awesome :)
game night is officially ( well by dan and me) called dinner night now, on account that some of the people at game night don't ever seem to want to learn the rules of whatever game we are playing. got through about 8 round of Oh Hell , all the while Stephanie was just playing random cards out of her hand. We gave up after that ( "do you have any clubs? because you need to play a club if you have one" get's old). maybe a new game night is needed, one where we can play games with more depth than Uno. | ||
Tuesday Aug 21 | ||
| road run 50:15 [3] 6.0 mi (8:22 / mi) | |
| Ahh, not so awake this morning either. felt leaden and finally rolled out at about 8:15 again. Out the door to the T at 8:35. muscles were again very vocal about all the running around they are expected to do, but I sat on the floor of the lab stretching out while reading about cell-cycle machinery, and that seemed to help a little bit. I was feeling okay when I hit the streets on my way home. I still felt really slow, but it was just as fast a time as the last couple of days.
After a shower I went out to buy some shoes. I've been running in a pair of nikes that James Scarborough donated to me at the end of WOC last year. so a year of running on secondhand shoes made me think that it was time to invest.... especially if I am going to be doing so much running on concrete and asphalt. I ended up getting the Asics 2060s well whatever they've turned into now 2120s or something. I almost got the equivalent pair of mizunos, because they looked cool.... but then thought that I would play it safe and stick with the shoes that I know my feet like. then it was over to the grocery store for my favorite hobby. Shopping while hungry!! best purchase was four tins of anchovies ( on sale) that make an excellent recovery snack. mmmm fish flavored salt. | ||
| C • gross 7 | ||
Monday Aug 20 | ||
| road run 50:30 [3] 6.0 mi (8:25 / mi) | |
| running home from work. I really prefer running in the morning when I'm fresh. But I was sleepy enough that I slept through the alarm that I set for 3am that would have gotten me up to listen to the middle qualis and I also slept past my internal clock which usually gets me out of bed by at least 8ish. It was closer to 8:15 when I rolled out of bed. So getting to work on time ( a very laughable concept really in lab science) required taking the T. But I ran home, and it was nice to erase the tedium of work with a nice run. Thinking that tomorrow I might bookend the day, and run to and from work! of course my legs are complaining, because I basically started running 5 times as much as normal and I didn't even give them fair warning that it was coming. Fulminant exercise !
really want to be competitive by the sprint series finals and relay champs though... so I gotta get the mileage in somehow :) | ||
| C • Wait till you have kids 3 | ||