Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2007-01-27:
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Saturday Jan 27 | ||
| road running race 43:40 [4]6.21 mi (7:01 / mi) vdot: 46.8 | |
| weight:138lbs shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Back to Forest Park in Springfield, this time for the 10K, where the Walkers were noticeable by there abscence. I suppose it was too cold?
It was a little nippier than I expected, about 15. Cothing was adjusted for the fact that I was going to be running harder, so just 1 pair of pants and two shirts. On the verge of being cold the whole time, which means I was dressed just about right. Decent race. Way better than the last 10K, 2 weeks ago, 45:42, but that was a pretty bad day. Probably a little better than last week's 21:17 for 5K. The legs felt pretty good, though I got tired toward the end and didn't finish really well. Still, a good hard workout, which is the second reason for going to these things. The first is getting a measure of where I stand for fitness, and therefore a mix of motivation to ratchet the training up and a little bit of reward if there is some improvment. But still way behind last year at this time (42:30 and 41:57). | ||
| C • Reward 5 | ||
| trail running 18:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Before and after. | ||
Friday Jan 26 | ||
| trail running 56:05 [3] | |
| shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Boy, you mention one crappy musician in your AP log and the gods, well, the weather gods anyway, are not amused. Wake up this morning and it's below zero and windy and all indications are that we're in for an all-day snowstorm*.
But I got myself out the door -- a morning of dealing with taxes makes getting out the door much easier -- and it wasn't bad at all. Partly because I was properly dressed, 4 shirts, 2 pairs of pants including my Compass Point toasties, and my special warm gloves which if they have a problem it is that they are too warm. And the route was also cleverly chosen, the back side of Greenfield ridge, out of the wind except the first couple and last couple minutes. My usual wintertime route in other words, 13 hills. And it was actually pretty pleasant. * Note -- due to global warming, El Nino, and the willingness of Colorado to take almost all of the snow that might normally fall on Massachusetts, thank you very much, snowstorms here are now measured not in depth but in duration, and the duration is not how long it snows for but how long it lasts on the ground before it melts. So this winter has produced two half-day storms and the one today which is shaping up to be a 24- to 36-hour whopper. Now traditional weather folks might say that all we've had so far is 3 dustings. But this is my log and here I'm the decider. And the cool thing about being the decider is that I'm right, no matter what anyone else says. I feel great! | ||
| C • Snow shortage 2 | ||
Thursday Jan 25 | ||
| trail running 1:21:07 [3] | |
| rhr:48 weight:137lbs shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Nice run with Phil on Mt. Toby. I was glad to get out and have company, and he had his gadget, so things were good.
Took yesterday off to let my heel mend itself -- these things happen slower as you get older, but when you get real old you get up in the morning and you can't remember what is supposed to be hurting, and so you just get on with life. Yup, getting old is sweet.... Anyway, a nice run despite 3-shirt weather (4- or 5-shirt weather is coming tomorrow). Still mostly bare ground, though there is ice in the places that are normally wet. One such patch on a sidehill/downhill got the better of me. I slipped, went to recover on a bit of firm ground and twinged my ankle, stumbled recoving from that, just about recovered but then tripped over a fallen log and went Splat. But no harm done, not even to the ego. Thought about humming some Jimi Hendrix tunes along the way just to make the run really fine, but then I don't know any Jimi Hendrix tunes, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like them if I did. | ||
| C • Hendrix 5 | ||
Tuesday Jan 23 | ||
| track 11:35 [5]3.2 km (3:37 / km) | |
| weight:135.5lbs shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| At the Smith indoor track with Phil. A good bit quicker than expectd. 8 x 400 with an easy 200 and some walking in betwee, starting a 400 every 3 minutes. 89.0, 88.0, 87.3, 87.0, 86.2, 86.1, 85.1, 84.9.
Hamstrings hurting as usual, plus a little left heel pain, ok after about 5 minutes of running but noticeable before and after. | ||
| C • did you ramp the interval time... 3 | ||
| track 28:30 [2] | |
| shoes: Air Max Trail 12/06 | ||
| Before, between, and after. Mostly for the benefit of the Smith women's track team to show them what good running form really looked like. | ||
| C • Sure hope you had some sort of... 6 | ||
Monday Jan 22 | ||
| trail running 1:06:55 [3] | |
| weight:135.5lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| On the snowmobile trails in Conway, except there was still no snow other than a dusting we got this morning. Started at the Boyden Brothers sugar house, was planning to follow the main trail over to the Conway-Whately Road and return (dashed line). There are a few other trails around, and one of them caught my eye, so I followed it until it had looped around to back where I'd been. 25 minutes so far, wanting to do an hour, that wasn't going to be enough, so I headed back in the direction of Norton Hollow, figuring I'd go partway down.
But my curiosity got the better of me, wanted to see what the state of the bridge was across the end of the beaver pond there, so I went all the way down. Which meant I had a 10-minute climb coming back up, good for me I guess, though I might be trailing Phil by a good amount at our planned track outing tomorrow morning. The bridge was fine, lots of new planks. 
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Sunday Jan 21 | ||
| trail running 1:26:41 [3] | |
| rhr:49 weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
Nice run up in Montague, amazing condition for mid-January, no snow, hardly any ice, even though the top little bit of Dry Hill still had some ice on the trees from a few days ago, quite beautiful in the bright sunshine. Up the old M&M, then instead of continuing on as usual past Ruggles Pond, hooked left over Dry Hill, north end of the Robert Frost trail, and followed it down just past Chestnut Hill. 44:57 out, 41:44 back.
Legs were a bit tired after yesterday's race, but not too bad. Still have a whole lot of work to do if I want to get anywhere close to the fine collection of scalps I got last year**. Six weeks to go until the Team/BOK A meet, and I need to get in at least 35 good workouts. Followed the run not with a nap as one would guess, but another outing to the Mullins Center. UMass is a little better this year, but more importantly for me, they play a much more entertaining game than any time in the recent past. Though you could argue that the real reason I go (besides free tickets in the third row) is the fine ice cream at halftime. ** 2006 scalp collection includes Platt, Fredrickson, Hawkins, Bone, Scarborough, plus 3 of the 6 members of the Canadian WOC team. A mighty fine year. | ||
| C • Woohoo! 5 | ||