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.
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| 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.... |
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| 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. |
