Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-25:
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Sunday Nov 25 | ||
| Note | |
| Planned to go to Mt Tom but woke up feeling like I'd caught whatever my sister had. Or at least something similar. I was the only one up and walking about at 6:30 (most of the house got to sleep at about 2am), so no one was exactly dying to force a potentially sick Cristina to drive out there.
Overheard by an intruder to the bar during my 10-year High School reunion this weekend: "We're definitely not old enough for this place." I really hope those girls were like, 16 with fake IDs. | ||
| C • Not Old Enough 2 | ||
Friday Nov 23 | ||
| Running long (roat/trail) 3:00:12 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| VF O Marathon training run. As in, *the* training run, since I don't imagine it would be a good idea to do anything longer between now and then. I did manage to "convince" Sam that a three hour run would be a good idea, and she bought the story, also managing to recruit Ross and Hilly. Good thing, too, because I don't think I would have bothered to run for so long alone. Much better with good company.
We started from the Sam and Ross abode in Newton and ran down to Cutler Park - one of my favorites when I lived in Newton. Followed a loop there that took as around to the other side of the Charles on trail and street and then back up towards their house... still had about 35 minutes left so we ran to Cold Spring Park for some more dirt and then back down. I think we ended up doing about half on trails and half on the road, and no big hills, so probably fairly relevant. Stopped for a quick bite at 67 minutes and 2 hours. At each I ate one nature valley bar (so, half a package) and had a few squirts of gookinade that Sam so generously carried while everyone else went free. I thin that's a good food choice, though a PBJ at the halfway point might be in order. And probably more liquid... | ||
| C • So do you know how far we r... 2 | ||
Thursday Nov 22 | ||
| Running (trail) 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Asics Trail Attack III | ||
| Post-feast family walk around Walden Pond.
It feels like it's been a very long day. Took the red eye last night to JFK for the switch to Boston, which is a very nice flight because it only takes 4 hours (slightly less last night, even) to get from Tucson to the northeast. Unfortunately, it only takes 4 hours, so it's hard to get much sleep. I think they should fly around the southwest a bit to delay before heading east, give us some more time to sleep... there's no need to arrive before 6am. I mean, really. That's early. Got home and, after being greeted with lots of love and kisses from my mother, was promptly handed an apron. We cooked, ate, and then headed off to Walden Pond without much time for lounging about. I figured, with all this talk of what to eat before running that this was the perfect time to see if I could run soon after eating all that yumminess. The answer is: sure can! Didn't run very much, but - and this is the more important reason why this is loggable - several of these minutes involved mami running, too, for very short periods of time... but still running. Eventually she'll be able to string together several minutes without her muscles being all like, "WTF?". And that would be fun. And exciting. We got back and started watching movies. I fell asleep near the beginning of the first one and slept through two additional movies and a phone call that my parents thought was part of the movie. I guess I'll have ratings later if I manage to watch any of them... | ||
Wednesday Nov 21 | ||
| Running (trail) 45:00 [2] 4.2 mi (10:42 / mi) +50m 6:25 / km | |
| shoes: Asics Trail | ||
| Sunset run at Saguaro East, starting from the Broadway trailhead.
As soon as I started running I realized that my butt was sore from yesterday's workout. Awesome! Not much to say today. I think my brain is too busy. Contemplating a set of training activities the week before the A meet. Even if there were only a handful of participants it would be well worth it, I think. Seems like a waste not to take advantage of awesome February weather. | ||
| C • Hope you figure it out soon. 4 | ||
Tuesday Nov 20 | ||
| Cycling (road) 21:00 [2] | |
| Ride in.
Contacts report: and I bet you thought I'd totally given up! I tried to get the right one in this morning. Didn't even get close, so I gave it a rest and came back to it 10 minutes later. A little more progress the second time, but no full success. Very very frustrating. | ||
| Note | |
| Just taking a look at Sunday's numbers:
39 total official entries, 19 entries on Green and Red 17 total DNFs, 13 DNFs on Green and Red What's interesting is that many of those who DNFd are typically top finishers on the course. The ones who slogged through for 2.5-3 hours to finish were mostly people who usually take a long time anyway and move more slowly. I guess they probably weren't as discouraged or as disgusted as the people who like to run more. There was a pair out on red for almost 6 hours. They were looking for #2 and didn't come in until they'd found it, unaware of the course closing time. We had already alerted authorities and the orange shirts were on their way. Nobody told them when the courses closed (nobody told me, either... nobody said anything to anybody, which is something we really have to fix) and they were just enjoying being out in the desert, totally oblivious to the fact that they were about to be the subject of a SAR effort. Overall, it was quite an interesting day. | ||
| C • Bad Day 2 | ||
| C • Contacts 4 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. | ||
| Strength/Core 10:00 [1] | |
| Warm up, fo' shizzle. | ||
| Running tempo (dirt) 1:02:00 | |
| shoes: Kayano XII (pink) | ||
| WOG. Last hard workout for Diane before the Tucson Marathon, but just the beginning for me and my VF O Marathon training. At least, that's what I tell myself, that there's a long run in my very near future, and a Tuesday WOG is the perfect warmup.
Today we did a different ladder - half miles and miles. - warmup (~10 min) - 4 strides - 2x800 w/400 recovery (3:41, 3:45) - 2x1 mi w/400 recovery (7:43, 7:41) - 2x800 w/400 recovery (3:48, 3:41) - cooldown (another ~5 min) Feels like a good workout, but not at all gut busting or killer. Supposed to be half marathon to 10 mile race pace, which I think it was, but I wonder if I shouldn't be running this stuff faster. On the other hand, just doing the workouts consistently, week after week, even if a tad bit on the slow side, should result in some good improvement. | ||
Monday Nov 19 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. | ||
| Cycling (road) 18:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. | ||
| DDR 25:00 [3] | |
| Phew, first solid solo session in a while. Tried some new Paranoia variants and quickly started sweating to the point of being able to earn a shower. Mission accomplished. | ||