Training Log Archive: DWildfogel

We slept out on the back deck for the 3rd consecutive night because it's too hot in the bedrooms. The first night was quite eventful: (1) we watched some of the Perseid meteor shower, seeing about 20 meteors in 40 minutes; (2) at 2am, we all got up hungry (guess we didn't refuel enough after the Dammit Run) and Louise made French Toast. This last night, our air mattress was low on air, and I didn't sleep very well (even by my meagre standards).

C • sleeping out 3

Front of house, 6:30am. 80 degrees, but a few clouds and a breeze off the ocean, so it's tolerable. Felt good after the first loop so picked up the pace a bit. Nearly at the effort of a threshold run, though quite a bit off the proper pace. The extra day off did me a world of good.

623, 548, 531, 517, 459

Warm up: 0.1 mi, 1:20
Cool down: 0.5 mi, 8:10

Would have liked to have run today, but I don't feel sufficiently recovered from the Dammit Run, so I'm going to give it another day. Rachel and Louise did a pretty fast run at the Lake this morning, so I'm really disappointed that I'm still sore.

My achilles, which has been feeling (relatively) good, definitely was irritated in the Dammit Run, even though it was only a 90% effort. Wonder why these reasonably fast but not all out trail runs bother my heel more than intervals (which I run at a faster pace) or sprint orienteering (where I push myself a lot harder) do?

Full sets of all the exercises: core, hips, weights, theraband, pilates. (As is often the case, I did a few of the exercises before breakfast and the rest before lunch.)

Would have liked to have run today, but I don't feel sufficiently recovered from the Dammit Run, so I'm going to give it another day. Rachel and Louise did a pretty fast run at the Lake this morning, so I'm really disappointed that I'm still sore.

Pt. Lobos. Casual walk along the North Shore Trail. Earlier, the three of us drove down to the Ventana Inn for lunch (this becoming a sort of tradition for Louise's birthday), where it was sunny and mild (as opposed to oppressively hot at home) and we stopped at Pt. Lobos, where it was overcast quite cool, on the way back. We later stopped for a snack in Carmel, where it was sunny but still cool.

Los Gatos (8:30am) - Dammit Run. Finish 4th in M65, 193 among men. Accompanying Louise, who was 5th in F55. I probably could have run 2 or 3 minutes faster. (Note from several days later: Official results are out. I was 5 of 16 in M65, 186 of 305 men, 238 of 498 all together. M60 was weaker than M65.)

One lap on track: --------------------- 213
Start of dirt trail by Mill: ------------ 330* 543
1.5 mile post: -------------------------- 250 833
One mile post: ------------------------ 430 1303
0.5 mile post: ------------------------- 437 1740
Meet's 2 mile mark** --------------------- 2008
Zero mile post: ----------------------- 540 2320
Top of dam: ------------------------------ 32 2353
Entrance to Jones Trail: ----------- 113 2506
Kiosk near top of hill: --------------- 317 2823 (1 more min to top)
Meet's 3 mile mark** --------------------- 3059 (think this was at trail junction)
Gate at Jones Rd: ------------------- 934 3657
Meet's 4 mile mark** --------------------- 3914
Main St entrance to Creek Trail: 552 4249 (2013: think this split must've been at the end of the dirt trail by the Mill)
Finish: ----------------------------------- 426 4714

*when we ran this last week for practice, we couldn't go through the fields; estimate that today's run was about :30 longer
**The meet's 2 and 4 mile markers seemed to be way off. Makes one wonder about the overall distance, though Louise's GPS watch measured it as 5.08, and her watch is usually short.

Stayed behind Louise for first 2 miles. The pace was a little quicker than I would have run. But I felt really strong on the hills, and had to slow down on the dam to wait for her, so maybe it WAS a good pace for me. She started walking on the Jones Trail hill, so I did too, but that was much harder for me than running, so I fell :12 or so behind. Easily made that up on the downhill. I suspect Louise's cautiousness on that downhill trail cost her perhaps a minute. Once out on the roads, she said she didn't have much left, so we kept an even pace; I could have easily picked up. Nevertheless, over the last 100m on the track I became aware that my hamstrings were pretty sore. Hardly in oxygen debt when I finished.



Van Boughner, Rachel, Louise and I each won medals in our respective categories.

Warm up. Had to run back to the car (uphill) to get some stuff Louise wanted.

Cool down. Hamstrings tired and tight.

The usual weekly accumulation of morning stretching.

Two-thirds of all the exercises: core, theraband, weights, hips, pilates.

Front of house. Planning a short, easy run in light of Sat's DamIt run. Even at 7:30am, it's hot and still; seemed hard to breath. So, ran even less than planned. Heel felt pretty decent, though my legs in general felt rather stiff.

627, 557, 517

Cool down

Core, pilates, theraband, weights. Didn't have time for hip exercises; we'll try to do them tomorrow.