Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-02-17:
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Sunday Feb 17 | ||
| Running (trail) 4:35:00 | |
| ahr:161 max:184 shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Douglas Spring Trailhead (2750') to Cow Head Saddle (6100') and return.
Barb, animal that she is, started from her place very early by bike and rode to the trailhead. John, being slightly more sane, left later and met me for a ride in, giving Barb a head start at the trailhead. My legs were pretty dead today when we started. This isn't surprising given that they weren't very zippy yesterday, and it's not like I've had a good sleep or rested since then. I had to walk a lot of sections that I have been able to run in the past on the lower portion of the trail. John inched ahead of me to the Douglas Spring campground, arriving just ahead of Barb. We chilled for a bit by the stream there and then plowed on to the saddle. I definitely wouldn't have continued if those two hadn't been there. It's steep and we hiked the whole bit (all 2.4 miles) without a single attempt to run. Lots of snow on this section of the trail, it was pretty cool. Even better was running back down with the sticky snow acting like trail grip! I said bye at the top and did the trip back to the trailhead non-stop, except for one particularly sweet fall on the rocks while crossing the stream at the campground. Trip up travel time was about 2:45 and down was 1:51. We spent about half an hour at both the campground and the saddle chizzizzling. Again, no cougars, but Barb brought a knife just in case. And also, just like yesterday, I expect that Barb took some pretty awesome photos, because I wish I'd had my camera. I've run the bottom of this trail many times and have wanted to go the campsite and beyond for a while, so I'm really glad we did today! | ||
| C • sticky snow 1 | ||
| Note | |
| A little late in posting, but caught two and half movies on the flight back from NZ:
Bee Movie (1) The Simpsons Movie (0) Elizabeth: The Golden Age (1) Yum. (Tudors *and* Cate Blanchett? Again? I'm spoiled.) Plus some snippets of LOTR and rugby, of course. | ||
Saturday Feb 16 | ||
| Running (trail) 1:11:00 | |
| shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Barb and John are in town for the week... and Barb tried to bring nasty northeastern weather here. It didn't last long, fortunately, and Sabino Canyon was pretty gorgeous once the sun came out. Ran an out-and-back on Phoneline with John while Barb hiked and took some spectacular photos (I hope).
I was looking for cougars. Didn't see any. Too bad, that's one I don't have on my list of "dangerous creatures you don't want to run in to" sightings list. | ||
| C • cougars 9 | ||
Thursday Feb 14 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. Dark! But not very cold.
Apparently it's Valentine's Day. Who knew? (I didn't get the memo.) | ||
| C • Valentine's Day 9 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. We have a "winter" storm coming through so it was wicked windy, though I'm sure it would just be considered breezy in Laramie. The snow level tomorrow night is supposed to drop to 2500'! This is good news for two reasons: 1) I've never seen snow in the valley with my own eyes and 2) the A meet grass may get squashed by a couple of inches of fluffy stuff. Good times! | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 59:40 | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Got to WOG a little late because of pleasant delays by a few APers. This meet is coming up quick!
Arrived during the warmup so mine was a bit short (~6 min). I did my strides easy so that they felt like part of the warmup. On the menu today was 8x200 hard with 200 recovery. I didn't have a watch that could take splits (oh, the horror!) but some of the guys were and I think it was apprxoimately: 46, 45, 45, 43, 40, 40, 40, 39 Probably a little quick for repetitions but sometimes it feels good to run fast. It is a bit humbling to realize that many of the women I'm orienteering against can maintain that kind of pace for quite a long time. And they usually navigate better, too. Followed this up with a loop out and around the golf course with a group that advertised "8:30 to 9:00" pace. They lied, so I dropped back with a few others after a couple of miles but still kept it honestly not slacking (averaged about 8:30 in the end). This felt like a good, reasonable workout. And I almost didn't go. Go me! | ||
Wednesday Feb 13 | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. It was hard getting up this morning. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home, later than I would have liked. For some reason I thought that people would actually get stuff done while I was gone. Silly Cristina! | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 38:40 [2] 4.1 mi (9:26 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Round the golf course in the evening with some good tunes for motivation. Did not sleep well at all last night and I was quite tired and hungry. Dark, but almost 70 degrees still. Nice that winter in Tucson isn't terribly different from Auckland in summer. | ||
Tuesday Feb 12 | ||
| Running 22:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Last day! Boooo hissssss.
It was raining, so we decided to visit the Auckland Museum. As soon as we got there and stepped out of the car, the sun came out. We went anyway (it was very good) and as far as I can tell it was pretty nice the whole time we were in there. A few hours later we headed back to the car and I changed into running stuff. As soon as I was changed it started raining again. And it rained for exactly 11 minutes and then was sunny and hot. I guess this is the variable weather we'd heard about but didn't experience! I just ran around the Auckland Domain, which was quite lovely. Wanted to get in a run "earlier" (later) at LAX but I just didn't feel up to it. | ||
Monday Feb 11 | ||
| Other Cardio (Kayaking) 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Today we took advantage of the weather (variable, not good for ocean activities) and went kayaking inland. We started in Puhoi and paddled down the Puhoi River, basically to the mouth. It was pretty chill, we spent a little over 2 hours on the river total, checking out the swampy shores and bovine inhabitants.
After paddling we went on a mission north to see some very big trees. We saw some very big trees. | ||