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Thursday Oct 25, 2007 #
track race 20:46 [5] 5.0 km (4:09 / km)
weight:138lbs shoes: Montrail
5K time trial at the Eaglebrook track, all by myself. Hoping for 21:00, did 20:46.
I had in mind to do this for several days. The Thursday track group sessions are over for the year, but I wanted to keep trying to go to the track once a week. And I want to see if I can get down to 20 minutes one last time. Which also ties in with getting my weight back under control. And if I can manage both of these, than better orienteering will follow. So several motivations which are all connected, and maybe makes success a little more likely.
Though I must say that actually getting on the track today was a challenge. Eaglebrook is a private school, has a very nice track. The group would meet at 5:30 pm -- and we had permission -- by that time any school activities were over. But I had a board meeting in Greenfield at 5:30. I had been planning to head to the track about 3, but then something came up that had to be attended to, one of my very much least favorite things to deal with, yup, uniforms, so I had to spend a while dealing with customs brokers and shipping agents and re-arranging delivery and hoping it will all work out, and by then it was too late to get to the track, run, get home and shower, and still get to Greenfield by 5:30. So I went with plan B, which skipped the return home and the shower.
So I got to the track about 4:30, and there was a soccer game going on, and a few spectators, some of them on the track, and of course I had no permission to run there. Bummer. Give it a little time, I thought, so I went off to warm up a little in the nearby forest, and just as I came back I heard a long whistle and the game appeared to be over. And people started to leave, ever so slowly, and I didn't really want to get out on the track until everyone was gone, so I was sort of lingering in the woods just above the track, sort of like one of those creepy old men who apparently are quite common, especially in DVOA land.
Eventually it was safe, and I zipped out there, a couple hundred yards on the track as a last little loosening up, and then off, really only time to do two miles, which is what I thought I might settle for. The plan/hope was to run 6:45 miles (well, 1600s), and the first one went by in 6:40, a little too quick I figured, well, if I could hold on and do 6:45 and then 6:50 that would be OK. And then the next 1600 went by in 6:42, and it looked like 21 minutes would be possible, and I must say at this point I had forgotten about the board meeting, totally focussed on the task at hand. And then the third 1600 went by in 6:38, and then the last 200 and I was done. And the wonderful transition in just 20 minutes from total dread of what was to come to total satisfaction. I believe the appropriate phrase is, so fine!
Straight to the car, and only 5 minutes late for the board meeting.
400 splits:
1:38.6
1:39.9
1:40.6
1:40.6 (6:39.7)
1:40.8
1:41.0
1:40.2
1:40.0 (6:42.0)
1:39.6
1:39.8
1:39.9
1:38.8 (6:38.1)
0:46.5
I had in mind to do this for several days. The Thursday track group sessions are over for the year, but I wanted to keep trying to go to the track once a week. And I want to see if I can get down to 20 minutes one last time. Which also ties in with getting my weight back under control. And if I can manage both of these, than better orienteering will follow. So several motivations which are all connected, and maybe makes success a little more likely.
Though I must say that actually getting on the track today was a challenge. Eaglebrook is a private school, has a very nice track. The group would meet at 5:30 pm -- and we had permission -- by that time any school activities were over. But I had a board meeting in Greenfield at 5:30. I had been planning to head to the track about 3, but then something came up that had to be attended to, one of my very much least favorite things to deal with, yup, uniforms, so I had to spend a while dealing with customs brokers and shipping agents and re-arranging delivery and hoping it will all work out, and by then it was too late to get to the track, run, get home and shower, and still get to Greenfield by 5:30. So I went with plan B, which skipped the return home and the shower.
So I got to the track about 4:30, and there was a soccer game going on, and a few spectators, some of them on the track, and of course I had no permission to run there. Bummer. Give it a little time, I thought, so I went off to warm up a little in the nearby forest, and just as I came back I heard a long whistle and the game appeared to be over. And people started to leave, ever so slowly, and I didn't really want to get out on the track until everyone was gone, so I was sort of lingering in the woods just above the track, sort of like one of those creepy old men who apparently are quite common, especially in DVOA land.
Eventually it was safe, and I zipped out there, a couple hundred yards on the track as a last little loosening up, and then off, really only time to do two miles, which is what I thought I might settle for. The plan/hope was to run 6:45 miles (well, 1600s), and the first one went by in 6:40, a little too quick I figured, well, if I could hold on and do 6:45 and then 6:50 that would be OK. And then the next 1600 went by in 6:42, and it looked like 21 minutes would be possible, and I must say at this point I had forgotten about the board meeting, totally focussed on the task at hand. And then the third 1600 went by in 6:38, and then the last 200 and I was done. And the wonderful transition in just 20 minutes from total dread of what was to come to total satisfaction. I believe the appropriate phrase is, so fine!
Straight to the car, and only 5 minutes late for the board meeting.
400 splits:
1:38.6
1:39.9
1:40.6
1:40.6 (6:39.7)
1:40.8
1:41.0
1:40.2
1:40.0 (6:42.0)
1:39.6
1:39.8
1:39.9
1:38.8 (6:38.1)
0:46.5
trail running 12:00 [3]
shoes: Montrail
Warm-up.