Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-20:
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Sunday Apr 20 | ||
| Note | |
| rhr:47 slept:4.0 weight:143.5lbs | ||
| Well, the marvelous sleep from Friday night (I slept in til 10am!) (!), the best I'd had in months, was completely wiped out by last night. I guess getting up late meant I wasn't tired enough to fall asleep early. Plus, I didn't really have any rigorous activity. Couldn't sleep until almost 3am, then couldn't sleep past 7:30 or so. And it wasn't nice sleep, either. Suckage.
Would like to call this a rest day but it's really a long travel day: Tucson - DFW - Heathrow. Hopefully it will be more restful than not. | ||
Saturday Apr 19 | ||
| Running (road) 20:00 [1] 1.75 mi (11:25 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Easy evening run around da hood with seabass. We both felt very blah. My legs were heavy. It was warm (88) but cloudy, so I don't think it was that... just weekend blues, I guess.
After that we walked to the movie theater (and back, of course), which has to count for something. On the way there we encountered some Mormon missionaries, only this time with a twist - one was deaf, and they were looking for deaf people to convert. I mean, to talk to. I don't know any deaf people in Tucson, and if I did I certainly wouldn't have told two random strangers on the street where they lived. Seriously. There must be better ways to find people with a connection than asking on a street corner. 21 (1) Kate Bosworth. Yeah. | ||
Friday Apr 18 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| weight:143lbs | ||
| In to work. Plenty warm today... | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Home. | ||
| Cycling (road) 30:00 [2] | |
| To and from Chuy's for dinner with Seabass, who was already over in that direction.
I don't usually feel scared riding the roads in Tucson. However, the section of Speedway between Columbus and Alvernon has no bike lane. I guess I've never ridden that part at night, because I'd never paid attention. First of all, scary. Second of all, WTF? | ||
Thursday Apr 17 | ||
| Running hills (road/dirt) 55:00 | |
| ahr:169 max:185 weight:143.5lbs shoes: Paul | ||
| It's awesomely not hot today (high 78!) so I took advantage of my late showtime to run mid-day... one last time? My new shoes (Inov-8 Mudlaw 270s) finally arrived yesterday after a few months of size confusion and returns getting lost, etc. I wanted to give them a try on something that wasn't pavement, so I ran from home to the bike path and then over to the "hill" in Reid Park. Did 3 "hill" loops, running the ups at full throttle (that makes 12 small surges) and then ran home around the rest of the bike path.
Felt pretty good today and the HR numbers are closer to what I'd expect, so I think the chill day yesterday was a good idea. And the shoes! The shoes kick ass. They feel really nice on my feet and gave me absolutely no trouble. Most new O shoes will give me some rubbing problems when new. The grass and dirt at Reid and along the bike path are hardly as gnarly as real O terrain, so they still need to be truly tested, but so far so good. Thank goodness, because I wasn't looking forward to bringing 3 pairs of dying O shoes with me next week. | ||
| C • Shoes named Paul 5 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. With sunglasses. | ||
| Cycling (road) 22:00 [2] | |
| Home from work. I think with tonight's flight I finally busted 300 hours in a -130. Took long enough.
I neglected to take into account the fact that 77F at lunchtime ---> 49F at 2am. I was clever enough to have packed a jacket, but my legs were a wee bit chilly. | ||
Wednesday Apr 16 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. On the way in, just after going through the gate, my right eye started to hurt, like I had something stuck under my contact. I tried to keep riding so that I could deal with it in the wind-free environment of the bathroom in the squadron, but couldn't keep my eyes (or eye) open (I can only wink with my left; I know, weird) so I stopped and took the contact out. Immediate relief, but I ripped the contact in the process and it blew away. So now what? I don't have any place to put the other one, so it's still in my eye. I think I'll get a headache if I stay like this. | ||
| C • One contact 6 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Home, with fuzzy vision. I couldn't take the one contact thing for more than a few hours, so out it came. | ||
Tuesday Apr 15 | ||
| Cycling (road) 17:00 [2] | |
| To work from the car dealership. Smoking is bad for people, it's probably bad for cars, too. | ||
| Cycling (road) 30:00 [2] | |
| From work to home, briefly, where I changed into running clothes and scarfed most of a cheese sandwich on my way back out to WOG. | ||
| Running intervals (dirt) 1:05:00 | |
| ahr:164 max:191 | ||
| Got to WOG late and ran a Viola loop warmup with Liz while everyone else started. Wondered once again why the Viola loop was called the Viola loop.
Menu: 10 x (400 hard + 400 easy), with the first five at "current 5k pace" and the second set at "goal 5k pace". I don't have a good idea of what either would be right now, so I tried to guess without making it too easy. Recoveries were around 2:40. Interval times with avg/max HRs 1:43 - 149/177 1:44 - 171/181 1:44 - 174/183 1:44 - 175/184 1:42 - 176/186 1:39 - 179/188 1:37 - 180/189 1:40 - 180/189 1:37 - 186/191 1:37 - 182/190 Ran the first set with a group and the second by my lonesome. I think these were good speeds. I had to work but I could keep it up until the last one, which really took some grunting. After the workout I was the only one left on the track except for this one woman who was cooling down after running the workout really fast. We cooled down a lap together and it turns out that she is Viola! She has lived in Germany for the past seven years, but the loop still bears her name. I'm so glad to have that question answered. HR was absurdly lower than normal for a lot of this, took a long time to get to 190 and then only barely. I seem to be saying this fairly frequently, so I'm not sure if maybe my HR patterns have changed... or maybe I'm tired. Or perhaps a combination of both. A full night's sleep would be magnificent. And maybe I'll just chill tomorrow and not run. | ||
| C • pacing 2 | ||
Monday Apr 14 | ||
| Running (road) 20:00 [2] 2.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| weight:145lbs shoes: Gus | ||
| A little morning recovery run around da hood. Today may be the first 'hot' day of the year (high 95), so I figured I should start trying to do some mornings. Lovely, about 65. Mornings are awesome. Thankfully, I get to ease into it, as it's going to be cooler the rest of the week.
As for the run itself, legs felt totally fine when I got up and walked around but were pretty creaky and sore while running. I also had a really strange moment when I passed by one house that had two little puppies running around the front yard, yipping and yapping and trying to chase me behind their fence. Instead of feeling disgusted I thought, "they're kind of cute". Kind of cute? What's wrong with me? Why didn't I want to kick them or put their cute little puppy heads in a vise? This may be the beginning of the end. | ||
| C • Don't worry 7 | ||
| Cycling (road) 25:00 [2] | |
| Ride in. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Home. | ||
| Strength/Core (core) 20:00 [2] | |
| Got about halfway through and then was overcome by an intense feeling of boredom combined with a strong desire to get other things done. So I stopped. | ||
| C • Since I know that feeling i... 2 | ||