Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-09:
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Sunday Sep 9 | ||
| Note | |
| I forgot about the smell. It smelled a little in the evening but it was much worse this morning. You know, that southern smell when it's really humid. Opened the door this morning and had a flashback to Officer Training School in Montgomery. Mmmm, good times, good times. I prefer the desert morning smell... | ||
Saturday Sep 8 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| weight:146lbs | ||
| Wow, it was really nice this morning. Starting out it almost felt too cool for a tank top on a bike. (It wasn't, but it was nice to feel like it was for a few blocks.) In to work to try again!
Not sure what's up with the weight. Damnit. | ||
| C • More gravity in the east 4 | ||
| Running (road) 47:00 [2] 4.78 mi (9:50 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Sight seeing run in Savannah. It was very nice out and there were lots of nice sights and cool things going on.
I ran by the river first, along River St., then back up and over to Bull St and down to Forsynth park. Looped around there and came back up a different street back to the hotel. Saw a live band, a bagpiper, and a steel drummer, amongst other things. Not nearly as hot and humid as I thought it would, thankfully. There's also this strange green stuff here... grass, I think it's called. | ||
| C • Is this like Savannah, GA? Do... 2 | ||
Friday Sep 7 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in to work really f'n early. I keep telling people how nice it is here, even in the summer, as long as you get up early enough. I'm glad I can keep proving this to myself. | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| ... and ride home, three days earlier than expected. We were supposed to fly to Providence today, which would have been cool because I would have had dinner with my parents. But the plane broke and we waited and we changed our plans and it broke again and we waited and we changed our plans and finally it was too broke to fly today and we went home. We'll try again tomorrow, but straight to our day 2 destination, Savannah. No New England for me this weekend. :-( | ||
| Running (road) 32:20 [1] 2.8 mi (11:33 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Late evening run with Seabass. It was a really pleasant night, nice and cool (~75) with a good breeze and some misty sprinkles. A nasty storm had just passed over, leaving us with meteorological goodness.
We walked to the bike path, ran a lap, then walked home, because that's what Seabass likes to do, all at Seabass pace. That was fine with me, no arguing that this is certainly recovery pace. | ||
Thursday Sep 6 | ||
| Cycling warm up/down (road) 28:00 [2] | |
| Rode home, quickly changed my shorts and shoes and headed directly to WoG, making this my warmup since I was running late. | ||
| Strength/Core 15:00 [1] | |
| Stretching, crunches, pushups, ab torture, etc. | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 27:00 [2] 3.0 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
| weight:145.5lbs shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Started with 1 lap + viola loop. Then we did drills (logged separately) and finished with a stadium loop.
And then we picnic'd, and Cristina didn't quite stuff her face, though she did eat more than she probably should have and also probably shouldn't have had those jello shots, mild as they were. | ||
| C • Is Christina refering to herse... 7 | ||
| Running (grass) 15:00 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Strides and drills. These were good. Nice things were said. | ||
Wednesday Sep 5 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| weight:146lbs | ||
| Ride in. Sore. ? | ||
Tuesday Sep 4 | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| weight:145lbs | ||
| Rode in to work from the mazda dealership, in a depressed state. I suppose it's possible to figure out at what point, financially, it's no longer worth keeping an old car around and when it makes sense to take the plunge for a new one. I was hoping for another few 10s of thousands of miles on this one, so hopefully there really won't too much work this time. And hopefully not for a while more. Good thing I got my tickets for the relay champs yesterday... | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Home, with a detour to the pet store for an emergency kitty food resupply. | ||
| Strength/Core 15:00 [1] | |
| WoG. Stretching, ups, mostly before, some after. | ||
| Running warm up/down (dirt/grass) 15:59 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Warmup: a lap + around the stadium + 6 strides
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| Running (road/dirt) 31:00 [2] 3.33 mi (9:18 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Easy run for those who raced yesterday - around the golf course.
Rode to and from but that doesn't pass Cristina's logable activity sniff test. | ||
Monday Sep 3 | ||
| Note | |
| Saguaro National Park Labor Day Run - 8 mi | ||
| Running race (road) 1:16:26 [3] 8.0 mi (9:32 / mi) +300m 5:19 / km | |
| ahr:187 max:198 weight:146lbs shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Saguaro National Park Labor Day Run 8 miler. This is the Tucson running season opener... and thus a kick in the butt for me. The course is considered the toughest road course in Tucson, and it's not like it's exactly chilly by Labor Day, so I thought that made Tucsonans batshit crazy. Either that or really smart since you get the worst one over when you're all out of shape and don't expect much anyway. :-)
I had no expectations today, sort of treated it like a tough long run. Okay, I'm kind of lying. I had no goals or anything but I kind of thought that I'd be able to run 72 given the wisdom that middle-of-the-packers run about 1 min/mi slower on this course than they would on a flat course, and I figured I could do 8's on a flat course without too much trouble. Either I'm wrong or I just didn't run the hills aggressively enough for a real race effort. Or both. I do feel very slow right now. The course is actually a scenic road in Saguaro NP East. Pretty awesome scenery, too bad the sun was in my eyes half the time. It starts off with a rolling downhill trend for the first ~2.5 miles, really quite fun because I was fresh and each little hill gave you some more downhill. Then there's a torturous flat section that made me want to poke my eyes out with a cactus. Thankfully, the big climb starts at ~3.5 miles at a ~7% grade and goes and goes. Only thankful about that because it least that's not boring. And by mile 4 you're not facing the sun anymore! I don't really have any more to write about it. It was fun and I can see why knowing the course would definitely help for racing it. I kept expecting to pass people as the course went on because it seemed like a lot of people started really fast and were huffing and puffing and wheezing as they passed me, but I think really most of them were pretty fast. There are a lot of fast people here. That should be good motivation to race against the same people a lot. Conclusion - a good holiday workout. And I'll be a lot faster next year... as long as I go run a lot of hills... Tia won in 51:59, Jessica 2nd in 54:56. Had Sheryl in sight most of the way but she finished about 1.5 min ahead. 12th in age group, 286th overall. | ||
| C • Cool. 1 | ||