Saturday Aug 11 |
 | road/trail run 25:00 [1] | |
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| Upon arrival in Kiev Hill and I went for a run along the canal, which at the time I thought was the river. It was a nice run and we learned that Kiev is not as scary as we imagined. |
Friday Aug 10 |
| road run 19:30 [2] | |
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| Went for a short run around Newton, as I was having trouble motivating myself out the door and into the cool rain. I figured I would be spending quite a few hours this evening on a plane, so running would be a good idea. Off to Ukraine tonight! |
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| C • wuhu! 2 |
Thursday Aug 9 |
| trail run 27:00 [1] | |
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| I went to Hammond Pond to run the short sprint that Ross set up 2 weeks ago. 11 minute warm up and then a 16 minute cool down. |
| Orienteering 18:42 [4] | |
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| Last time I ran the sprint, I ran it in about 11.5 minutes. This time I ran the first one in 9'32" and then 9'10". I was surprised I wasn't faster on the second time, since I made a few minor route choice mistakes on the first one. I am surprised I was this much faster than the first time, but I knew how to run out of each control this time, and I think that really sped up my run. Legs felt great today, which was a nice change. They are a bit weak going up hills, but I recovered well and didn't feel overly winded when I was done. |
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| C • faster track=faster O 1 |
Wednesday Aug 8 |
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| (rest day) |
| Rest day. I went shopping at the Wrentham Outlets with roommate Emily. It was a very successful trip. :) |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| road run 23:00 [1] | |
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| I had to go to Dedham to feed Petunia (my cat), so I figured I would run from there. It was threshold run day, so I jogged the long way over to Stoney Lea to run 4 laps around the circle, and then jogged another lap and ran home. I stopped at the grocery store to pick up ingredients for my frozen chocoate peanut butter pie :) It's now sitting in my freezer waiting for dessert. Because the store didn't sell any chocolate graham crackers, I had to buy a chocolate oreo pie crust and it was a bit too small. So there was extra filling. I just put that in a separate bowl in the freezer, figuring someone would like to eat just the filling :) |
| road run (threshold) 20:00 [3] | |
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| First I told myself that I was only going to do 15 minutes of the planned 20 minute threshold run. I have been feeling tired during most of my workouts the last week, even with a few rest days. And then I told myself that I would only run 4 laps, which I figured would be a bit over 15 minutes. But 4 laps took me 9 minutes and 16 seconds, so I just had to run for 20 minutes because I was so close. My HR was lower than other threshold runs, around 178/180. It actually felt like a great pace. |
Monday Aug 6 |
| road run 31:00 [1] | |
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| Run over to the Newton South High School track and then back again. I have never run there, or even been there, before. The run is nice, although it does start out along route 9 for about a minute. But then it's residential roads. It only took me 14.5 minutes to get there, but then 16.5 to get back. Guess I was tired! The track isn't super nice - some of the track surface is coming off to reveal pavement underneath, but for training on it's fine. It's nice to know that it is so close! I alwasys go to Dedham to run illegally on one track or legally on the Dedham high track. But Hill, mom and dad are up in the Thousand Islands, enjoying the sun at the Worner's island house. |
| track workout 6:15 [4] | |
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| Ouch, this one hurt. 5 x400m at 75sec with 3-5 minutes of rest. These were difficult. I think maybe allowing myself more rest between them might have made the experience more pleasant, but I wasn't sure how long I was supposed to take and I was impatient. I actually ran the right times: 75, 75, 74, 75, 75. The 4th one was the slowest by 13 milliseconds :) The wind was really strong on the backstretch for the first two, which I think did slow me down a bit because the third one was faster when the wind died. Then on the fourth one I ran the first 200 2 seconds slower than normal (I was running 36 200s) and so I really had to push hard in the end. It was overcast, which I was grateful for, but very humid - it started really raining about 5 minutes after I got back. I just missed it! :) Good timing :)
You can tell that I no longer have as many things to do during my days, as I am writing a lot in my log :) |
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| C • "Pleasant" ? 2 |
Sunday Aug 5 |
| trail run 1:06:00 [2] | |
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| Running at Powissett with Ross. We ran for 25 minutes, then did 10 minutes at threshold, ran for about 30 more minutes, another 10 minutes of threshold and then ran back to the car. |
| trail run 20:00 [3] | |
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| The 2 10 minute threshold runs in the middle of the long run. |