Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-10-07:
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Sunday Oct 7 | ||
| Note | |
| Jim Click's Run 'n' Roll 8K | ||
| C • very nice :) way to stick i... 1 | ||
| Running race (road) 37:28 [5] 8 km (4:41 / km) vdot: 42.6 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Awesomeawesomeawesome! That's how I feel right now. No way I thought I could break 3730 today. Not in a million years. Kicks ass.
Everything about the morning was great, the actual result of the run is just part of it. I ran this race five years ago, about two months after I started running. It was my first real road race and then, too, it went way better than I expected. This is definitely going to be my good karma race. Course twists and winds around the U of A campus. It's fun, and besides the fact that you pass near the finish twice before actually getting there, the serpentine nature of the route keeps you from succumbing to road race ennui. Got up early but kind of forgot to eat early, so I had a banana 75 minutes before the start. Almost ate more but thought better of it - it was only 5 miles and it was definitely too close to start time to have more food. Turns out to have been a wise decision. Okay, now about the run. I'd had such poor road results lately that I just wanted a solid and not stupid run. I figured 40 was a very reasonable goal. I started the first mile quite pumped because I was on campus, it was beautiful out (sunny and 50s), and I have lots of smiley memories being there. Extra motivated by the pep band playing "Bear Down Arizona". (Who'd a thunk that I was that sentimental?) Sifted through the crowds on the first mile thinking that I was maybe a little slower than 8, but that that would be okay. Instead I hear the tracksters at the mile marker calling 7:20s... (I passed the start line about 10 sec after the gun). I was totally stunned, because it didn't feel like I was running that fast at all. Gotta love adrenaline. I didn't really decide to pull back for the second mile, but I was thinking that I should the whole time, especially since my legs were already a little quivery, so I guess that's why I pulled across so much slower. At that point I figured I was practically halfway there and hadn't cramped or stiffened up yet, so I might as well push. Worked for a mile but really started to slow even though I was pushing it for the fourth mile. For those first four miles there was this sorority-looking girl within my sights wearing a baggy red cotton t-shirt and earbuds in her ears. I just felt like she shouldn't be in front of me. Last mile I finally creeped up on her and passed her with about 3/4 of a mile to go. We fought for a bit for the next half mile and she pulled ahead with about a 1/4 to go, and I was feeling more and more like I might not be able to keep my banana down. I thought she was going to stay ahead because she increased her lead, but as we rounded the corner to the finish chute I decided to kick it in. I crossed the finish line a footstep ahead of her (.2 seconds according to the results) and then jumped up and down because I'd broken 37:30... and then bent over and almost puked. I looked around and realized that there were a lot of people around me who really wouldn't have appreciated that, so I stood quite still and tried to relax and it worked. Of course, since I didn't puke, does that mean I really ran hard enough? ;-) Splits: 718, 741, 717, 746, 725 | ||
| Running warm up/down (grass) 10:00 [1] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| Warm up in the grass as the wheelchair race unfolded. | ||
| Hiking 3:00:00 | |
| shoes: Asics Trail | ||
| Got home from the race, showered and dilly dallied for a few minutes, then headed out to meet Allison and Yosef for a hike. We drove up to Mt Lemmon and started at Marshall Gulch. Marshall Gulch - Wilderness of Rocks - Mt Lemmon Lookout Trail - Mt. Lemmon Trail. At that point it was getting late-ish compared to our plan of getting them home early, so we wanted to get down quickly and ended up accidentally taking the powerline road, which wasn't pretty or fun. Stopped for pizza and cookie at the cookie cabin on the way down (I called an order ahead... definitely an advantage of hiking on a mountain with towers!)
Legs held up fine, I guess this was a good chance to loosen them up after the morning's effort. | ||
Saturday Oct 6 | ||
| Orienteering 2:15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| More course work out at Box Canyon. It was really nice today in Tucson, high 80 all weekend (!) and it was therefore almost chilly at sundown up in the Santa Rita foothills. Out there longer, but this is time spent actually looking at the map and terrain.
Made good progress. I really like the map, Ludwig did a super job mapping the vegetation. And, of course, it's pretty fun, I just wish the seeds would go away. Grass was no longer green this weekend - what a quick change! There were patches that weren't yellow, but last weekend it was almost all green. Three weeks ago is was luscious. Had a few size extremes today in the AOWN category. I'd been out there for almost three hours without seeing anything disturbing. Spooked some deer and a few bunnies and saw lots of hopping insects doing their hoppity hip hop thing. Then I saw this large web with, you guessed it, a really big ass spider in it. I shrieked a little, because it was really big and spooky looking, all these bright colors on it, and I'd never seen one of those before. But it was just one, so I turned to be on my way. Only now that my eyeballs were calibrated to these critters, I noticed that they were *everywhere*. It seems like every two blades of grass had one of these webs, and in each one was one of these suckers. It was when I realized that I was surrounded by them that I said, "Joseph and Mary, mother of Jesus!" Except not really, since I long ago sinned all of the Catholic out of me, but I'm sure you get the idea. I surmised that these bad boys were not dangerous and decided not to look down and just to keep going. I have to say that I never really did get over it, and I did keep looking down, and I did keep seeing them, though I also learned what kind of vegetation to avoid. I have searched around for Arizona spiders and can not figure out what they are, though you can bet I'll post a nice, big picture when I do figure it out. The second extreme was the teeniest tiniest little snake I've ever seen, dead on the road. I bet one of the spiders bit him. | ||
| C • Was it one of these? 4 | ||
| Running (dirt) 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Nice easy run back down to the car, just to loosen up. Hope this was an easy enough day before tomorrow's race. It would be nice to at least break 40. | ||
Friday Oct 5 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in for morning PT. Is it ironic that I can't go for a morning trail run because I have to go to work to exercise? | ||
| Cycling (indoor) 30:00 [1] | |
| Didn't really feel like running on the road or track or (dog forbid) a treadmill, so I brought a book and sat on a bike. I really wanted some relax time, and that's what it was. | ||
| Note | |
Just for j-man, but don't take it personally. | ||
| C • Sweet! 2 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Home! Three day weekend, baby.
I was in a hurry this morning to make it to PT on time, so no contacts. | ||
Thursday Oct 4 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 | |
| Ride in, fantabulously early! | ||
| Cycling (road) 17:00 | |
| Ride home. | ||
| Strength/Core 8:00 [1] | |
| Stretching, etc. | ||
| Running (grass/dirt) 42:21 | |
| Nice WOG session. Ran a warmup lap, followed by very unguided stretching. Then a stadium lap to warmup fully for drills.
Four strides then drills, a bit faster than last time, making it more of a total workout, not just a bunch of short intense things separated. Then we did 4x200 with 200 rest. They were: 46, 77, 46, 75, 45, 80, 44, 85 And then just another stadium lap to cool down. Yet another ridiculous connection tonight. Tucson is a small world! Forgot the contacts report yesterday (are you sick of it yet?) - got them in, after almost giving up, but it was frustrating. Good news is that they felt great all day, actually better towards the end of the day. Flew today so no contacts. | ||
| C • Forgot the contacts report ... 3 | ||
Wednesday Oct 3 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| In to work! Yessss! I love Mobility! | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. I can smell Fall coming... weekend forecast is a-w-e-s-o-m-e. Hi of 81 on Saturday! (Yes, this is real excitement, in case you couldn't tell.) | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 31:30 [1] 2.74 mi (11:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Easy evening run with seabass, bike path. We ran there and most of the way around before we had to stop for knee issues (hers, not mine). Also had a little honey break in the middle. Not for me, obviously, since I do not like honey. ;-)
The night's a little warmer than it has been - upper 80's - and not quite as dry. Legs felt quite good, very little indication that I ran hard yesterday. Good. But next time I guess I need to run harder. | ||
Tuesday Oct 2 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 54:40 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| Great night at WOG... Got home a bit on the late side from work and seabass dropped me off just after they'd finished stretching. Started with a warmup stadium lap followed by 20 min of the four-spoke hill + pond lap workout and then 2x 1 mile, with easy running between and after, and yadda yadda yadda.
I ran the hill loop much harder this week than last because I think I was being a bit of a pansy last time. Got through 5 hills and 4 pond laps by the 20 min mark. Legs felt pretty spent after that and we're all thinking (or maybe it was just me), "Ugh, I can't do two race-pace miles now..." But it's only 20 mins, and these are only miles, and it could be a really long race, and we're supposed to be tough. No idea what SlowMe could do, so I aimed (hoped?) for 7:30 on the first, faster on the second since we were supposed to do a negative split. 2 min easy jogging between. Ran the first in 7:27 and the second in 7:22, which is satisfying after the hills, if not fast. I certainly feeling like I'm starting to regain (gain?) a bit of zippiness. Satisfying workout, especially since people were complaining of the "humidity". (It was sprinkling for a bit, so it wasn't as dry as usual...) | ||
| Running (road) 26:00 [2] 2.6 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| ... then hung out for a bit and rested while waiting to see if seabass would make it over to give me a ride home. She didn't, so I ran home... slowly. :-)
Contacts: I think I regressed. Took a really long time to get them in this morning + lots of swearing like a sailor. | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1] | |
| Stretching before sleepy time. | ||
Monday Oct 1 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Ride in, friggin' early (4:30am). It rained (!) so it was not as refreshingly cool and dry as it has been.
Not cleared to fly with contacts yet, so no contacts report today. Terribly disappointing, I know. | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. Long day. Whooeeee! | ||