Training Archive: PGIn the 28 days ending 2007-02-28:
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Wednesday Feb 28 | ||
| trail running 34:11 [3] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Same as yesterday. Nice day, warmer, snow was softer and more slippery.
Left work early to go to the last UMass home game. A lot of fun. | ||
Tuesday Feb 27 | ||
| trail running 34:20 [3] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Just a short run on the ridge. An inch or two of fresh snow, I was slipping and sliding a bit but at least not going down. Still feeling pretty feeble. | ||
Monday Feb 26 | ||
| trail running 51:42 [3] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Along the top of the ridge to Sachem Head, mostly packed out pretty well (whereas the southern part of my usual loop looked to still be quite rough). Not awful again, I suppose. At least I got out. | ||
Saturday Feb 24 | ||
| trail running 34:12 [3] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Same as a couple of days ago. Not awful. Snow a bit deep in places right along the crest of the ridge where it had drifted.
Note to myself: remember on Monday to check the possibility of 10-year averaging. | ||
| C • 10-year averaging of the G? 8 | ||
Thursday Feb 22 | ||
| trail running 36:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Tried a short and slow run as the hamstring had calmed down a reasonable amount since Sunday, but it still didn't feel so good.
Morale is suffering. The G is soaring. Working too hard. Low expectations for next weekend in NC. | ||
| C • BOK 07 5 | ||
Tuesday Feb 20 | ||
| Note | |
| Left hamstring was really sore and tight after Sunday, so I'm taking at least a couple of days off. Feels a little better today, but not good enough to go out.... | ||
| C • Hamstring 3 | ||
Sunday Feb 18 | ||
| road running 1:16:30 [3] | |
| weight:137lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Ran the 10-mile course in Amherst just to see what my fitness was like. Wasn't pleased. Was shooting for 75 minutes, but it was clear before long that that was a little quicker than what was possible, at least for today. Never felt like I had much zip, plus top of the hamstrings, especially the left one, were hurting most of the time (and quite sore afterwards). The only good note was managing to keep a decent pace up the long hill at the end.
Will head to the snowmobile trails this week. They shood be packed out enough by now. And I need to figure out how to get the hamstrings to loosen up. | ||
| road running 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| About mile before to warm up, and then a couple minutes back to the car after. | ||
Friday Feb 16 | ||
| treadmill 34:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Didn't feel very energetic, and didn't feeling like dealing with the cold and strong winds out on the roads, so to the treadmill again. | ||
Thursday Feb 15 | ||
| treadmill 1:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Another outing on the treadmill -- trails are unrunnable, roads dangerous plus not real pleasant outside, so I went back to flailing around inside.
But very interesting. Three women had control of the TV when I started, so I got to watch 2 straight sessions of something called "Ten Years Younger." Amazing, with just a little cosmetic surgery and botox and othe injections and make-up and new clothes, well, would it work for me? Not sure, but in any case I picked up a lot of good tips. And then I got to watch just about all of some woman giving birth at home, but my hour was up just before the big moment.... All this on some channel call TLC. Makes you wonder what else might be on the tube. As for the running, an hour is an awful long time to be on the treadmill, so I made the time pass quicker by doing 3 x 1 mile quicker, 7:00, 6:40, and then what was supposed to be 6:20 but the machine didn't go any faster than 6:40, so 6:40 it was. A minute between at usual pace for recovery. Once again, no falls, but there were some close calls. | ||
| C • Good tips on TLC 1 | ||
Wednesday Feb 14 | ||
| treadmill 57:00 [3] | |
| weight:137lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Snow and then sleet storm going on, so running outside seemed like it would be reasonably unpleasant (because of the sleet, like running on little ball bearings), so I opted for the treadmill, first time in many years.
Figured I'd just run for a while, so I did about 25 minutes at 8:30 pace, but it seemed like the minutes were going by real slowly, so I sped up a little and did 10 minutes at 8:00 minute pace, and then a mile at 7:00 minute pace, which seemed to pass a little faster, and then a mile at 6:40, and time seemed to pass still faster. Does Einstein's stuff come into play here? I think there's something about if I was going really fast I'd actually be getting younger? If so, might have to spend more time on the treadmill, though the ones at the Body Shoppe might not be quite fast enough. Finished up with a few minutes back at 8:00 pace. And no falls, though I came close a few times, CNN Headline News was so interesting I forgot where I was going.... | ||
| C • Hey, conditions here are almos... 2 | ||
Tuesday Feb 13 | ||
| road running 59:02 [3]7.33 mi (8:02 / mi) | |
| weight:136.5lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| With Dave, roads north of Greenfield. Sure seemed like harder work than the pace would indicate. | ||
Monday Feb 12 | ||
| trail running 54:52 [3] | |
| rhr:47 weight:135lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 13 hills loop in Greenfield. Increasingly energetic pace, so a decent time for the conditions. And the legs felt surprizingly good even though they felt dead when I got up this morning. Maybe the fact that my resting pulse and weight are getting back down a little has something to do with it. | ||
Sunday Feb 11 | ||
| trail running 1:48:51 [3] | |
| weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Finally signed up for the Team/BOK meet in North Carolina 3 weeks from now, and the realization that I'll be dealing with 14 km on that Sunday kept me out a little longer than the 90-minute minimum I was planning on. Though my conditioning/speed still sucks....
Did a nice tour of Mt. Toby -- up to the power line, over towards the gate on the rce course, up the bridle path just after the sugar house, picked up the Robert Frost trail, up the phone line from the 1/4 point to halfway, over on the link trail back to the race course and up to the top, then home via the hairpin, S curves, more on the RF to South Mountain saddle, South Mountain cut-off, Muck cut-off back down to the power line and back down North Mountain. Isn't it handy that all these places/trails have names, even if Gail and I are the only ones that know some of them. Makes it easier to tell her where I've been. It's been cold ever snce we got our one 3" snow "storm" so nothing has melted. Maybe 2/3 was packed out and pretty good traction, 1/3 still loose and fluffy. A few quite alarming frost pockets (could have gone in knee-deep) but I avoided all of them. Overall a nice run, time went pretty quickly. | ||
Friday Feb 9 | ||
| trail running 58:17 [3] | |
| weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Usual loop, cold and windy, but no different than the last couple of weeks have been, so perfectly pleasant.
Very busy today, all good people. | ||
Thursday Feb 8 | ||
| trail running 1:04:30 [3] | |
| weight:136.5lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| In Gill, from the French King bridge up just below Darby Hill and back, some longer climbs than my usual route. Also, most of it wasn't packed out, not much snow, maybe 3 inches, but enough to make it a little slower. Plus a number of frost pockets. All good training! And mostly sheltered from the gusty NW winds.
For tonight's weird client story I won't pick the women who came in a couple of evenings ago with a girl friend (whose taxes I already do and is a bit of a flake, same goes for her mom) along for moral support, and anyway this woman was in the process of getting divorced and she had absolutely no knowledge of anything to do with the family finances and will probably get somewhat screwed as a result, though less so if she takes my advice, and at one point we started talking about what her taxes would be like for 2007 and I said as long as the divorce was final by December 31 she could file single and that would be better and then she asked what if she were married, and I'm thinking boy that's a pretty quick turn-around, and then she says she's getting married in October -- and now she looks at her girlfriend -- to her, so now we talk about the tax implications of gay marriage, and, well, as I said, that was a couple of nights ago so I can't use that for tonight's weird client story. So instead I'll use another woman, late 30s, and in this case weird means maybe unusual but very, very admirable way, though perhaps not in her choice of men, because she is supporting him (he doesn't work, doesn't seem to do much of anything, the one good thing is they aren't married) and 3 kids and they all live in a camper parked in the front lawn of a rundown house she bought 3 years ago for 74K (which might get you something decent in the slums of Laramie, but around here it doesn't get much), and she's spent 3 years rehabbing it on her own, everying, learning as she goes, she's almost done, all while working full time at a crisis center and every time she sees a neglected kid wishing she could open an orphanage. And she's been doing her taxes herself and apparently messing them up, but a friend said she should come see me, and now she's getting back about twice as much as before and we're going to amend her last three years. Which is cool, because she really deserves some good news and she's going to end up with 8-10K more than she would have had otherwise. | ||
Wednesday Feb 7 | ||
| trail running 57:51 [3] | |
| rhr:50 weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Same as yesterday and the day before, but also different, meaning it was the same route but run an hour later than usual. For which there was a reason....
See, there's this guy I seem to have done taxes for the past couple of years, and he weighs probably about 350 pounds -- not that there's anything wrong with that -- and he also, well, I'm not sure if he never showers or never washes his clothes or maybe he just has impressive but totally natural and above all really awful odor. So the first year i was stuck, did him as quick as possible, but it was rough. Last year we discussed not letting him in the door, but at the last minute we chickened out, and I was really really fast but it was still awful, all my ladies were gagging. So this year when I saw they had made an appointment for him (they didn't remember his name), for 3 pm today, I told them to cancel it, to say I had a doctor's appointment, and that I was really busy with nothing else availble, and he could drop off his papers if he wanted me to do the work but no appointments were to be had. So they called him up and told him this fairy tale -- because how do you tell someone they can't have an appointment because they smell so bad? I'm not sure he believed us, so we figured I'd better be out of the office at 3, so I took my break from 2 to 4 instead of the usual 1 to 3. And as I was most of the way through my run, chugging up a hill, I started thinking about what the doctor might say if I'd actually gone to see him, and I hoped his advice under the circumstances would have been to get lots of fresh air. Which was exactly what I was doing. I'm still not sure how to tell someone they smell really bad.... | ||
| C • Well. The way you do it is ex... 9 | ||
Tuesday Feb 6 | ||
| trail running 58:57 [3] | |
| weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Same as yesterday. Low 20s, windy, felt quite pleasant.
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Monday Feb 5 | ||
| trail running 1:00:09 [3] | |
| weight:137lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 13 hills loop, snowpack on the trails so slipping a little all the time, but still pretty good conditions. And given the cold day, mid teens and very windy, it was not totally unpleasant -- much of the route is sheltered, and what wind managed to find me had trouble cutting through my four shirts and two pair of pants.
Now if my hamstring would just stop hurting. May have to consult with Wyatt on how to get it fixed.... Another very long day at work, with a varied cast of characters as usual. It seemed that most were involved in some sort of relationship disasters or triumphs, with the former unfortunately more common than the latter. I hear a lot of interesting tales.... | ||
Sunday Feb 4 | ||
| trail/woods running 1:25:38 [3] | |
| weight:137lbs shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| At Mt. Tom with Phil, about 3 inches of snow, ran some off trail, some on trail, plus did the 9 holes of the golf course (the only time we got much of the wind). lows 20s, bright sunshine, quite pleasant. Went off the map 3 times, though it's debatable if you can go off the map if you don't have a map with you.
Legs didn't feel too lively, but may have just been the footing (slipping a bit, Phil had spikes, don't know if that made much of a difference or not). A little hard on the hamstrings, they were complaining by the end. | ||
Friday Feb 2 | ||
| trail running 1:17:50 [3] | |
| weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 20 hills loop, not pushing the pace at all, but at least managed the slightly longer than normal run that I planned. But no lost keys, no weird people, no unusual wildlife, I'm hard-pressed to think of anything interesting.
But then a couple of hours later and I'm taking care of a client who all of a sudden one evening in early December got a wicked headache, and several days later was having brain surgery for a tumor around his pituitary gland. He's bounced back pretty well, except for the fact that even with some health insurance he will get a bill of more than 100K from the hospital. Better appreciate each day, because you never know what's coming. | ||
Thursday Feb 1 | ||
| trail running 52:35 [3] | |
| weight:138lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 13 hills. Since I didn't run yesterday, I figured the legs would be a little fresher today (which they were) so I planned three surges on my standard loop, which I actually managed to do -- 6:36 for the southern loop, 4:59 for hills 10-12, and 5:11 for the traverse below the tower, plus I ran the last 6 minutes harder, so I suppose that makes four surges. When you start surging, it's just hard to stop!
Time for the loop is better than the 55-56 I've been doing, but still well off the 49+ last spring. But fitness is slowly getting better. I think all I need now is some more benchmarks and everything will be all set. | ||
| C • Just some surges? No augmenta... 7 | ||
