Training Archive: BoojumsIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-08:
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Sunday Jun 8 | ||
| Running (trail) 1:00:00 [3]7.9 km (7:36 / km) +300m 6:23 / km | |
| ahr:172 max:188 shoes: Paul | ||
| Sunset run at Sabino Canyon, Esperero Trail. Same conditions as last night except bigger mountains = more shade, plus there was a breeze. Felt pretty good today, no sign of having raced last night, and the heat didn't seem to slow me down. Trying to run peppier and shorter for my "long" trail runs. This was meant to be longer but I was limited by sunlight and I'm still afraid of mountain lions.
Wore my Inov-8s since they are becoming my primary O shoe and I want to make them one with me feet. They are a nice alternative to my usual Asics trail shoes because they are less shoe. But I think they're almost as little shoe as I'd like to do on rocky stuff like this - I can't imagine going almost barefoot there. I also wore, for the very first time, the dorky fuel belt that I bought back in December. It's much more comfortable than any camelbak-type system I've ever worn, especially the waistbelt ones that ride up and require corset level squeezing to stay put. I didn't mind having it on at all, and I actually drank about 15oz of water, which is 15oz more than I usually do for an hour of running. It wouldn't have been fun to run without water tonight. I'm glad I've found a comfortable solution... too bad it took me this long to try it. | ||
Saturday Jun 7 | ||
| Note | |
| Meet Me Downtown 5k | ||
| Running warm up/down (road) 5:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| "Warming" up for the Meet Me Downtown 5k. It was still about 94 out, so I chose to keep this very short. | ||
| Running race (road) 23:05 [4]5 km (4:37 / km) vdot: 42.1 | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Meet Me Downtown 5k, second edition. Last year's race was a lot of fun, even though it was really hot, I blew up after the first mile, and almost puked at the finish. No way I was going to miss it this year!
An evening in June in Tucson is not the day to shoot for a PR. I left the FR at home (well, it wouldn't turn on, so I didn't have much reason to take it) and just wanted to run faster than last year (24+), which meant I was out there to have fun. It was hot but, believe it or not, with the sun hiding behind most of the buildings and maybe some mountains, low 90's really isn't bad for a road race. Just kidding, ha! Not sure what my splits were, not even sure if this is the right finish time. First mile was quick, second was slower, and I have no idea about the third. With they had km markers instead of miles. The finish was nice, not deathly painful, except for the fact that my lips were stuck together. The band that was playing (The Tryst) was great. The lead trumpet player is a guy I played with in the U of A Wind Ensemble in 02-03. Small town. Free showing at the Fox: Spirit of the Marathon (1) and not just for the oh-so-short glimpse of Sara Mae in her CSU shirt. Sat with jingo6390's clan for an even bigger O-related experience. For my reference, the Meet Me Downtown 5k YouTube video. | ||
Friday Jun 6 | ||
| Running (road) 30:00 [2]3.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Gus | ||
| Two laps around the golf course running path on base for morning PT. Fairly nice out (70s) with a good breeze. I had to pry myself out of bed this morning because I was actually solidly asleep past 6. Probably has something to do with the drugs labeled "sleep aid" that I took last night. If that's the only way I'm getting good sleep then I think it makes sense for me to go mattress shopping this weekend. | ||
| Strength/Core (stretching) 10:00 [1] | |
| After running. I haven't been doing enough of this. | ||
| Note | |
| I went to Summit Hut this evening fully intending to purchase a pair of Vibram Fivefingers for some barefooting. I've been pretty eager to do some barefoot or close-to-barefoot running for a while, but hadn't set out to get me some of these. Unfortunately, they just don't fit me. My feet are quite narrow and, more importantly, my toes are pretty f'd up. Vibram addresses the narrow size thing in their faq (they hope to offer narrow width in the future) but they say nothing about accommodating f'd up toes. Too bad. | ||
| C • Vibram 9 | ||
Thursday Jun 5 | ||
| Running (trail) 51:00 | |
| ahr:168 max:187 shoes: Asics B&Y | ||
| Sunset run at Saguaro East. I got doubly lucky today. First, I got spared from having to spend my evening driving two hours out to a dirt strip, watching a plane land, then driving back. Numero dos, the weather was stupidly awesome today, high barely over 90, making a non-morning trail run possible. Sweetness.
Felt good. Saw lots of critters. Did a bit of terrain running. Got my ticket from Prague to Oslo, so at least now I know that I can get from WOC to O-Ringen, though I'm not sure how I'm leaving or coming back to Tucson yet. I convinced seabass (who is wisely spending the summer away from Southern AZ) to meet me in the Czech Republic rather than in Sweden, and now she has a ticket... and the same problem of how to cross the pond. | ||
| C • ...containing 4 Minuteman nose cone fuses? 2 | ||
Wednesday Jun 4 | ||
| Note | |
| This nights thing isn't working. I hate this. | ||
Monday Jun 2 | ||
| Note | |
| We got the paper version of our two newsletters today! Thank goodness.
New Tucson O Club website has been unleashed. Not yet complete, but ready for public consumption. I need graphics help if anyone wants to design a banner with our logo in it... I'll make chocolate cake. | ||
| C • web site 3 | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| In to work. Depending on your source of wx information, it was either Hot(97) or Very Hot (103). It didn't feel Very Hot, so I think the local amateur station is not to be trusted. Or they have their thermometer out in the sun.
Have not been sleeping well at all lately. Well, for the past year or so, but it's been especially bad for the past few weeks. I sleep poorly and then wake up fairly consistently at 5:xx, before any alarms, regardless of how much and how good my sleep was. It's no fun. I'm doing night flights/duty this week, so we'll see if maybe I just get so tired that I have to have some good sleep. | ||
| Cycling (road) 20:00 [2] | |
| Ride home. Almost chilly in my sleeveless shirt. Got through the flight with plenty of yawning but no nodding off, thankfully. | ||