Training Archive: levitinIn the 7 days ending 2008-08-10:
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Sunday Aug 10 | ||
| Road running long 2:00:00 [2] 14.0 mi (8:34 / mi) | |
| ahr:143 max:167 rhr:59 shoes: BA7 | ||
| The Reservoir loop with the Crusher added on. Lost some time due to fumble-fingers on the HRM, but the pace was conversational, and the company excellent (R and K), as usual.
It occurred to me during this run that there's another question that goes into the same category of questions one cannot answer as "Do these pants make me look fat?" or "Do you this (s)he's pretty?". We were discussing how one describes one's looks on a social networking page, and I said I'd heard some DJ's ask "What celebrity do you most resemble?" R said she always replies "Lassie." Ha ha. I think if you answer this question, you run a risk of offending someone who is not a very close friend. Tired legs, and, as usual, we were all sandbagging, claiming that if it weren't for the others, we would have bagged the run long back, and teasing about who was pushing the pace. As usual R pwned the Crusher, just gapped me like I was crawling, and she wasn't even breathing hard. | ||
Friday Aug 8 | ||
| Road running 46:48 [2] 5.0 mi (9:21 / mi) | |
| ahr:139 max:161 slept:7.0 shoes: BA6 | ||
| An easy run from work in the morning. Have to exercise (pun intended) caution warming up for a morning run, since my body was not exactly ready for exertion. Still, the weather was nice, in stark comparison to some of the "interesting" stuff we had yesterday: torrential rains, HAIL (maybe 1cm diam).
AOWN: Saw horses at the horse farm, grazing. Heard the peepers peeping in the reeds. Still pretty tired in spite of getting a reasonable amount of sleep. | ||
Thursday Aug 7 | ||
| Road running warm up/down 17:00 [1] 1.75 mi (9:42 / mi) | |
| shoes: BA7 | ||
| Treadmill Speed workout, consisting of
1.0M w/u 4 strides @ 10.0 mph for 0.06M (~ 100m) 4 x 0.50M @ 8.5mph, 0.25M recovery interval 0.75M c/d | ||
| Road running intervals 1:30 [5] 0.25 mi (6:00 / mi) | |
| 4 strides @ 10.0 mph for 0.06 miles | ||
| Road running intervals 26:00 [4] 3.0 mi (8:39 / mi) | |
| ahr:165 max:177 shoes: BA7 | ||
| 4 repeats of 0.50 miles @ 8.5mph with 0.25 miles recovery at slower pace, 5.0 - 4.2 mph. Breathing was mostly 2-2, except shifting into 2-1.5 during the last repeat. Effort felt hard. Lactic acid buildup was noticeable during 2nd-4th repeat, so I'm not so efficient at clearing lactic acid.
Times should all have been around 3:32, but fluctuated a bit. Average HR for each repeat: 162, 165, 166, 166. It was the first speed workout in a while, and it certainly felt it. | ||
Tuesday Aug 5 | ||
| trail runnung 30:00 [3] 3.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Salomon trail shoes | ||
| From ARRT x Rt 85, to the base of Noname Hill, 2x up-down, then back. Only had time for a quickie workout before an evening commitment. The Development has gotten worse on the top of Noname Hill. Last time I did hill repeats, the incursion had obliterated parts of the trail, but the wetlands were fenced in, and the trail junction I used as my top-of-repeat marker still existed.
Today, most of the trail was obliterated, as well as all the original wetlands. There were smoothly graded road beds, just crying out for asphalt. The trail junction, and in particular, the unique tree marking the jct, was gone, no sign of it, all bathed in a soup of logging slash, earth moving equipment, large boulders, and the occasional survey stake. I encountered the trail beyond the clear-cut area, but eventually determined it was sloping down the far side of Noname HIll, and that I had overrun (or, more exactly, the developers had overtaken) the previous top of the hill. There are a couple of odd-shaped pieces of untouched woods (maybe 200m by 20m at their widest places), but it's beginning to look more and more like the seeds of a subdivision (or the enlargement of an existing subdivision) and less like a place where one could encounter nature, ride a mountain bike, hike, or run. I don't remember if I noted it in my AP log when it happened, but after I encountered the first wave of incursion, I dreamed that the Hudson Conservation Commission discussed the issue of wetlands versus development. I heard a commissioner say, in the dream, "Wetlands? We don't need no stinkin' wetlands." or words to that effect. Now, if seems as if the wetlands are gone. Perhaps after the woods have been clearcut, paved, built upon, and carpeted with ChemLawns, they will designate an odd-shaped, unusable (read: unbuildable) parcel as a wetland and attempt to recreate it. I'm dubious. | ||
Monday Aug 4 | ||
| Road running 34:45 [3] 4.2 mi (8:15 / mi) | |
| ahr:143 max:170 shoes: BA7 | ||
| Horse loop. Steady effort. Took the last uphill with a good pace and didn't let it waste me. Legs felt OK, but the RPE did not match my HR. RPE was about a 7 on a 1-10 scale, moderately tough (always 2-2 breathing, but even some speedwork sessions I stay breathing 2-2), but the HR was low.
I think this means I need to crank it up. | ||