Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-13:
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Sunday Apr 13 | ||
| Running (trail) 3:50:00 | |
| ahr:168 max:186 shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Tuscon Trail Run Series Mt Bigelow Ascent/Marathon/50k/whatever distance you want. I was going to run an 11-mile trail race at Catalina (site of the world's worst map) yesterday, until I started to register and saw that it would cost me $50. Fifty. I had hoped to run and place well in my age group, but when I saw that I figured I'd just be buying a placing, so I nixed it. And planned on doing the totally free, casual, and well-supported TTRAZ run today. Good choice, I think.
We started at Prison Camp, one of the rec areas along the Catalina Highway, elev about 4800'. The route took us west down into Sabino Basin (just under 4200') and then brutally up up up to the Palisades trailhead and to the top of Mt Bigelow, 8600'. There were several possible route combinations - the 11 mile ascent to Palisades, the 15 mile Mt Bigelow option (out-and-back up to the top and finish at Palisades, which is what I did), either of those with the return to Prison Camp (marathon), or all of it plus an out-and-back to Molino Basin for a 50k. Now, I'm not really crazy, so I planned all along to stop at Palisades and get a ride back to my car. We started at 6:30 with howling winds. It was nice to run in a group, especially a group of ultra-runners, many of whom were planning to do a very long run today on top of one yesterday. This meant that the pace was really gentle, especially for the first several miles (flat/downhill). Once we hit the ups I was pushing a bit... I think they're much stronger relatively on climbs, because they were still just yammering away. At the 7 mile point I made the obviously-not-hurting-at-all guys behind me go ahead. They were gone pretty quickly. Did the next 4 miles alone and made it to Palisades in just over 3 hours, about 20 minutes behind the main crowd. The last bit was tough - still feeling tired like yesterday, plus the altitude, so I wasn't running as many of the trail sections as my eyes told me I could. I stopped for some yummy food and some chatting and then was egged on to hitting Bigelow, so I went. The trail up was a mess, gone in lots of places, not redone since the fire, and I was spent. Several times thought, "now would be a good time to turn around", but then I could hear the hum of the towers and just had to keep going. Touched the lookout tower and bolted back. Round trip just under 50 minutes, but it was a lot less than the advertised 4 miles, at least the (largely off-trail) way that I went. Good times. I felt like I could have kept going on flat ground. Up was hard and down wasn't very comfortable, but I still had energy left. Maybe a roundtrip next year... The route (click for bigger):  | ||
Saturday Apr 12 | ||
| Running (trail) 45:00 [1] 4.0 mi (11:14 / mi) | |
| ahr:154 max:168 shoes: Gus | ||
| Sunset run in Saguaro East with seabass. Broadway trailhead, just a short loop. Totally exhausted again today, slept for a while inadvertently. Ran nice and easy since that was all the energy I could muster. Did a few out and backs to seabass but mostly I wasn't moving much faster than she. | ||
Thursday Apr 10 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 1:07:00 | |
| ahr:169 max:190 shoes: Gus | ||
| WOG. I arrived late because of a silly day at work. I also ate lunch really late (3:30) because of the silliness. And I ate really silly stuff because the sub place had already closed at the BX. So I didn't get much of a warmup and then tried to go silly fast and felt like I needed to puke.
-short warmup (5 min) -strides (x4) -3x (200H + 200E + 200H + 200E + 800H + 200E) -warm down lap around the golf course (~30 min) The 200s were supposed to be quick and the 800s "slightly slower than 5k pace, unless you didn't do Tuesday's workout, in which case go faster". Ugh, I still feel nauseous. All the times so I can see how much slower my recoveries (not bold) got worse as the grease was churned up in my stomach: 44, 64, 47, 65, 3:31, 71 46, 74, 45, 74, 3:26, 77 47, 72, 45, 81, 3:30 A good moderate workout, though I went a bit faster than I should have, even if I had been nutritionally prepared... but way too close to being really gross. | ||
| C • silly stuff 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 9 | ||
| Running (track) 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| ahr:161 max:171 shoes: Gus | ||
| Warming up around the track while Elithe did her pushups and situps and stuff. | ||
| Running (track) 11:36 [3] 1.5 mi (7:43 / mi) | |
| ahr:181 max:192 shoes: Gus | ||
| Well, I feel like a failure. Elithe needed to run an 11:24 to get 50 points. I figured she'd just be able to do it, as long as we kept the pace tight. I wanted to push for 7:30 pace but that never really happened. I'm not sure if we could have cut those 12 seconds off, but I can't help but feel that I just wasn't motivating enough. Laps were 1:50, 1:59, 1:58, 1:57, 1:58, 1:54, which (aside from the first one) is pretty consistent... but pretty consistently not fast enough (1:54s would get you exactly 11:24). Bummer.
On the upside, I have no worries about my own run for PFT coming up. How selfish of me. | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| Running (road/dirt) 36:00 | |
| ahr:146 max:180 weight:144lbs shoes: Gus | ||
| (Mostly) easy evening run. Seabass and I ran together to the bike path and then set off in opposite directions. We met up on the other side and she turned around to have the shorter run. I took it easy most of the time except for a half-mile at ~7:30 pace to try and calibrate for tomorrow morning - I'm pacing Elithe on her 1.5 mile run for her annual fitness test. I won't be pacing her pushups.
I'm pretty sure I stank more like airplane than running this evening. Another sign that summer's coming. [cue dramatic music. again.] I haven't recovered from the weekend, though that's mostly a sleep problem. I got back rather late on Sunday night and then had to be at work bright and shiny to show some ROTC cadets around. For some reason they wanted to shadow a navigator. WTF? In any case, showed them the plane and where we mission plan and stuff and then ran out of time. Good thing I didn't have any of them for too long, because any longer and they would have had to "shadow" me in the office! | ||
| C • What does Elithe do that re... 3 | ||
