Saturday Oct 13 |
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| Just a run around Newton by myself. A really nice day and lots of people out walking dogs at the park. |
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| C • Infection 1 |
Friday Oct 12 |
| road run 40:00 [1] | |
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| Running over to Wilson Mountain with Hill. We were thinking about doing a repeat workout from Wednesday, since Hill wasn't there, but she was feeling tired, so we only did one loop. |
| trail run 13:52 [3] | |
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| Really surprised at this time for the trail loop. My HR might have been slightly higher than on Wednesday, although in the beginning I couldn't get it to read correctly. Maybe having Hill running right behind me helped me actually move, because on Wednesday I couldn't even get my HR up to 184, and today that was my max. Still strange that I was that much faster and I really didn't notice a difference. |
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| C • I think I will hazard sound... 1 |
Wednesday Oct 10 |
| road run 42:00 [1] | |
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| Running over to Wilson Mountain with Dad, running down the hill between workouts and then running home. |
| trail run 19:00 [3] | |
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| Did the Wilson Mountian loop. Times were 14:38 and 14:25. Was a bit disappointed at how slow these times were. I was running at threshold, like I usually do, but this is a lot slower than my usual pace, which is usually a bit over 14:00. On the second one, I was really pushing it, but my HR wasn't going over 183, and I just couldn't run any faster. I guess all this time off has affected me! |
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| So, for anyone going to US Champs. Ross and I have flights that arrive at BWI at 10:00am on Friday and depart at 5:00pm on Sunday. Is there anyone else arriving around the same time or departing that we could get a ride with? I don't really want to rent a car for the two of us for the weekend (although I will be 25 by then!) as it will add expenses, but we'd be willing to share a car with people.... |
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| C • BWI transport 5 |
Tuesday Oct 9 |
| road/trail run 1:21:00 [1] | |
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| I felt really gross during this run. It's a half day at work every Tuesday, which is really nice :) I was a bit late getting home because I took the T to work because my car is incredibly loud with no muffler. I ate left over beed stroganoff for lunch, which is very yummy. But then I wanted to get a long run in before it got dark and I couldn't remember when it got dark. Needless to say, I went running an hour after eating that lunch, and I just felt nauseous the whole way. The feeling got slightly better after 30 minutes, but I still feel gross and I've been done for 40 minutes. I should have stuck with the usual lunch - granola wih yogurt, a cheese stick, crackers and sometimes fruit.
I went running to Cutler Park which is about 2.5 miles away from my house. I have been meaning to try running there for a long time, so today I finally did it. I spent awhile in the parking lot with my head upsidedown trying to orient the map on the board to figure out where the trails went. I really couldn't read it without orienting it. On the way home I was planning on running on the roads, but the Blue Heron Trail continued along the Charles for a way out of Needham and into Newton, so I followed that. I often feel a bit jumpy when I am running on a new trail alone, but I imagined that if anyone came after me I could book it faster through the brambles to the road than they could :) And the only two people I saw along that trail were two guys smoking pot :) |
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| C • We used to run there! 5 |
Monday Oct 8 |
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| I just put my pictures from Ukraine up online if anyone is bored :)
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8Ab...
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| C • This one... 6 |
Sunday Oct 7 |
| Orienteering 4:07:11 [3] | |
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| Hudson Highlander!
Coming from a wedding the day before I wasn't sure I was even going to make this event. I woke up at 5am on Saturday to get my hair and makeup done and get into my Bridesmad dress for an 11am wedding. I was up all day and by the time I went to bed at 10:15pm it felt like 3 am. I have not been that tired in a long time. Ross convinced me to go to the Highlander by offering to drive, so we wokr up at 4am and hit the road. We would have made it with a few minutes to spare, but we ran over a tire on teh road and had to do some repair to the underside of my car with duct tape and wire. We arrived just as everyone was walking to the start.
Hill and I ran the whole Highlander together, which Hill warned me we were going to do. I think Hill might have ben able to run away from me during it if she really wanted to, but she was nicely waiting for her older sister - especially during the trail run. We navigagted well together, except for #2 where I had no idea where we were and Hill thought she knew. We ran into John F., who was standing around lost. We assured him we knew where we were going and ran of and into Dad, who was wondering why were were going completely the wrong way. After a brief group consult, we figured it out and managed to find #2. At this point, I was sure we were behind everyone and we would have a lot of catching up to do. We pulled away from a few people on the first map, and then caught and lost a few more (JJ, Mike Lyons and Joe B.) on the trail run. We caught up to Jon Campbeel and 2 cadets on the third map. We lost Jon around the end of the third map, and then Hill and I couldn't shake the two cadets on the fourth map. At one point Hill almost lost me on 4th map #3 where I was cutting between trails and she was insisting I was going to wrong way. She took off down the trail and the cadets looked from me to Hill and followed Hill. I decided I wasn't terribly confident and ran after them as well. But then I tried to cut the corner and got stuck in thick vegetation and lost a bit more time. A good route choice and running up part of the hill to the control helped me catch back up. Sprint finish, beating the two cadets and Hill (who cramped up on the pavement) and punching the finish box before them, but the cadet behind me was less than a second back so we officially tied. I was really surprised to find that neither Peter nor Pavlina was in front of us, and actually we had been in front of them since #1! I was sure we were behind a really large pack of people. 4th place overall, which might be my best Highlander finsh - and after probably the worse preparation ever. I did comment afterwards that it was strange to look down at my hands as I was climbing with them up hills and over rocks and see the french manicure :) Hill and I had good teamwork - she won Queen of the Mountain, I won overall, and we tied on the trail run :)
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| C • Worse prep? 1 |
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| C • French manicure 2 |
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HH XII - Splits |