Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-02:
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Sunday Mar 2 | ||
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| We finished the race at about 12:45, 23 hours and 45 minutes after starting. We were only the 4th team to finish, so we had a lot of time to wait to see how we placed and for the awards ceremony. It turned out to be a really long time and the awards ceremony was a total cluster. The rest of the organization throughout the race was very good, it was too bad that they screwed up the results so much - the had all the right elapsed times, but they had everyone in the wrong categories, so they were trying to give prizes to female corporate teams who were male and not corporate and the like.
In the end we were 23rd out of 152 teams overall - I'm pretty happy with that, I had no idea we'd be that competitive. We were also the first "Public Service" team out of 5. If we had run in Open Male we would have been 6th of 25. Not bad for a team with two missing runners (people had to double up legs to make up for it) and 4 women. Since this seems to work, here are photos. I didn't take any at night, and the videos are still coming. Might be obnoxious, but it's my log. ;-) | ||
| Note | |
| Videos, in rough order of how entertaining they would be to someone who wasn't there:
Diane's Music Inferno The Handoff! Tony Dances The Start Pushups, maggot! | ||
Saturday Mar 1 | ||
| Running race (road) 42:55 [3] 5.4 mi (7:56 / mi) +110m 4:39 / km vdot: 40.2 | |
| ahr:184 max:190 shoes: Gus | ||
| Leg 24. I think I managed a little bit of sleep in the back of the van while we waited for the runners in the other van to finish their second set. Once our runners started it was pretty fat paced because everyone had fairly short legs. I set out just before 5am for my "moderate" 5.4 mile leg that had the same amount of climb as my hard 7.3, only in several short, steep doses. It really got tough at the end.
When I finished there was only one runner ahead of us, and we just heard that our first leg runner finished closing the gap. Starts are based on estimated speed, so three are still several teams who started after us. But we have passed everyone who started between 9am and 1pm, which is most of the teams. Go us! Route map. | ||
| Running race (road) 31:10 [3] 3.8 mi (8:12 / mi) vdot: 37.9 | |
| ahr:177 max:186 shoes: Gus | ||
| Leg 36, last leg of the race. Surprisingly brutal.
I did manage to get a little sleep in the morning at exchange 31. Then one of the Google team vans parked next to us and we found out that they were only about 45 minutes behind us, and they started at 6pm! We were getting spanked by these guys, but then again, they were a) all guys from b) all over the country and c) fully supported by their employer. There were only a few teams ahead of us, we were still doing well. The sun was coming out strong and some of the people in my van (like me) were now going to have to run in the heat for the first time. Tony had a brutal uphill 5 mile run, but ran strong, followed by a great double-leg run by Diane. Josh, running only 1 leg for the first time, was at least as tired as everyone else and managed to "only" run miles in the mid-6's. Elithe, the accident-prone member of our team, made it through with nothing worse than a fall that split her hands open and hurt like hell - at least she was able to finish running! Then I was off for the last leg of the race. I had been looking forward to it because it was short and flat, but it was also hot and my legs were pretty sore and stiff. I pushed, but there wasn't anything to push! The heat and the fatigue made this the toughest run of the race for me. I did have a really weird route that involved, for the third time, some running *with* traffic, as well as a u-turn! I managed to follow all the signs and not get lost. I did get almost a minute rest at a traffic light which was sort of welcome. It's a good thing I didn't get stopped too long at the other, because the next team behind us in the final results was only 58 seconds back! I got to the Riverside Park and was happy to see Josh there to get me through to the finish chute, were the other 8 team members (and 2 drivers) were waiting to run in with me. Pretty sweet finish! I was glad to be done, also quite tired and thirsty, but the first thing I did was get my free massage at the massage tent. The second thing I did was go get some pizza. :-) Route map for the last leg (boring) and route map for the whole relay. | ||
| C • more... 2 | ||
Friday Feb 29 | ||
| Note | |
| Ragnar Relay | ||
| Running race (road) 58:35 [3] 7.3 mi (8:01 / mi) +110m 4:46 / km vdot: 40.6 | |
| ahr:184 max:192 shoes: Gus | ||
| Leg 12, Ragnar Relay. My first leg and the last person on Team DM to run. Got the slap bracelet from Elithe at about 9:20 and set out in the dark with some crazy tunes. I'm really glad I didn't have to run this during the day, it was pretty hot and dry. Still plenty warm at night but not too bad. Last two miles were uphill and I was really cranking, not that that translated to a faster pace... Didn't help that my calves got really tight in the third mile and never relaxed the rest of the way. Fun so far, resting in the van now trying to recover for my next leg at 0 dark 30.
Leg 12 route map. | ||
Tuesday Feb 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Had my annual flight physical today. Unfortunately, they found absolutely nothing wrong with me, and certainly nothing that would prevent me from flying. | ||
| C • Unrelated 4 | ||
| Strength/Core 12:00 [1] | |
| Stretching and strength before the workout and some good stretching after. | ||
| Running intervals (dirt) 42:00 | |
| ahr:172 max:190 shoes: Gus | ||
| WOG. Pretty tempted to skip it after my silly scheduling mixup that had me working the desk last night and showing up for the physical at 730 this morning. I feel like I still haven't recovered sleep from NZ! Tomorrow won't be any better, have to be at work at 430 or so. Eugh.
The menu today was a little plumper than last week - 7x400 + 2x200 + 7x400. I didn't think I'd be able to do any of it after this weekend, but remembered last week and decided to try. Made it through the first half but I really couldn't manage. I wasn't even able to keep up the pace from last week and I was already pushing it in the first half. It's tough to back off while everyone else keeps going, but I think I really needed to. 10 min warmup loop + 4 strides 7x400 w/ 200 easy 2x200 w/30s rest 5 min warmdown lap 400s: 1:46, 1:43, 1:45, 1:47, 1:44, 1:43, 1:44 Time to take it easy before this weekend's Ragnar Relay. <----- Evidence of poor judgement on Cristina's part. | ||
| C • Ragnar relay 2 | ||
Monday Feb 25 | ||
| Note | |
| Fun weekend! I managed two very nice runs and a good one, no disasters, not much swearing at myself. I can live with that (and the F-21+ win, even if that's mostly Sam's fault for being so collegiate). I'm still slow and far from perfect, but I'll take the baby steps.
All the hard work by everyone else (especially Max, the setter/vetter crew, Sandy, and Valerie) means I just got off easy with the web stuff. Still taking me most of the morning to get my inbox back to 0! | ||
| C • I took a couple baby steps ... 3 | ||
| C • Cristina in New Zealand 6 | ||
| Note | |
| I guess it's not very exciting anymore since it's public, but 8 hits to go to a significant number (40k). Winning commenter gets... probably nothing, but it's fun to play. | ||
| C • Ooooh Me!? 6 | ||