Sunday Aug 19 |
 | Road Run race 22:37 [5] 5.03 km (4:30 / km) vdot: 43.4 | |
| shoes: NB878 - #7 |
| Valley Cats Home Run 5k - A road race! It's been quite a while since I've raced on the roads (and this reminded me why), but Janet talked me into it. Fairly flat course winding through a neighborhood and starting and finishing at the local single A pro baseball stadium, which is a new and quite nice facility. My time is about what I expected. I probably could've pushed a bit harder if I cared. Wasn't feeling well before the race but was OK while running. Weather was great - sunny and upper 50's at the 9am start. At least this gives me a measure of my fitness so I can stop guessing how fast I should do speed work. Maybe I'll do another road race in five or ten years. :-)
Splits: 713 (1mi), 723/1436 (2mi), 701/2237 (5k). Splits from Forerunner. Reached mile mark 1 on the course in 706 - probably should've been around the corner from where they had it since 2 mi agreed with FR. |
| Road Run warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB878 - #7 |
| Jogging around before, walking around afterward. |
Friday Aug 17 |
| Road Run intervals 29:08  3.5 mi (8:18 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB878 - #7 |
| Rt 66S and back. 1.25mi warmup, 4 x 0.25mi with 0.25 recovery. Splits 1:33 (downhill), 1:34 (flat), 1:43 (up), 1:37 (flat). Recoveries ~2:30. Fast stuff was probably a bit faster than it should have been, but felt OK. 70F. |
Tuesday Aug 14 |
| Road Run 34:43 [3] 4.1 mi (8:28 / mi) | |
| shoes: NB878 - #7 |
| Road run - boring compared to orienteering! 66N and back. Nice day - 71F, sunny with a bit more humidity than Colorado and a lot more oxygen. Felt sluggish for the first mile or so but then felt better. |
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| Travel day 2. Much less eventful than day 1. Flew the rest of the way, from Cincinnati to Albany. Total travel time (arrival at COS to leaving ALB) about 25.5 hours. Time should have been about 10 hrs.
Apparently one of our bags also had an interesting trip. When we had them pull our bags in Cincinnati for the overnight stay, only 3 of 4 bags were there. When we arrived at Albany, the fourth bag was waiting there for us. Based on the tag on it, it went to Salt Lake City, took a red-eye to Atlanta and then an early flight to Albany. So even though I've never been to Utah, my luggage has been.
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Monday Aug 13 |
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| Travel day - returning from Colorado. Unfortunately, this is the first of two travel days. A bomb scare in the Colorado Springs Airport delayed our leaving for about three hours, so we got to spend the night in Cincinnati.
Added later - We came amazingly close to missing all this inconvenience. When we checked in, the Delta computer asked if we wanted to leave earlier than our scheduled flight by going through Atlanta rather than Cincinnati. Well, even though the flight left COS earlier, the connection didn't arrive in Albany until about an hour later. No brainer - shorter flights, arrive earlier, avoid Atlanta. The Atlanta flight pushed off the gate and took off about ten minutes before we had to evacuate the terminal. You make your decisions with the information you have at the time and live with them. :-) |