Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-05-10:
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Friday May 9 | ||
| Note | |
| weight:138lbs | ||
| A gloomy day, but still some good news...
- the G is getting back under control. - just received the $1200 from W (and Congress), though of course it was just borrowed from the Chinese. So it's not clear if this is really good news. - got a letter from my "Dave Barry guy," the polyp was benign, which is definitely good news. Don't have to see him again for 10 years. | ||
| trail running 52:45 [3] 5.38 mi (9:49 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| In the hills just north of Rt. 2 in Gill, light rain. Legs a little better than yesterday. This makes a couple good weeks of training, need to keep it up while figuring out a way to avoid getting hurt. Route.
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| nautilus 45:00 [1] | |
| Looking forward throughout the session to what came next -- lunch (at 4:30 pm). | ||
Thursday May 8 | ||
| track 25:00 [3] 3.31 mi (7:33 / mi) | |
| weight:139lbs shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| With the Thursday evening track group. The schedule was faster sections with shorter rests in between -- 2 minutes fast, 1 slow, 3, 1, 4, 2, 4. 2, 3, 1, 2 -- though it is a bit of a stretch to call it speedwork, since my pace on the faster parts was about 7:15/mile.
Oh well, have to start someplace. And since legs felt totally dead all day, I suppose it was good just to have done something. Also getting in lots of rogaine practice, and not eating much (which in itself is good rogaine practice). | ||
| track 4:15 [2] 0.5 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Very short warm-up. | ||
Wednesday May 7 | ||
| trail running 1:08:35 [3] | |
| weight:140lbs shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Bridal loop on Mt. Toby, what goes for a very long run these days. I figured under 70 minutes would be good, so it was good.
I thought of calling up Phil to see if he wanted to join me, but i figured (1) 4 pm was a little too early for him, and (2) more importantly, I didn't really want to have to keep stopping to wait for him. Power line 17:57, start of loop 31:31, end of loop 41:21, power line 54:44, back n 13:51. | ||
| C • bridal loop? 2 | ||
Tuesday May 6 | ||
| trail running 53:14 [3] | |
| weight:141lbs shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| From Mill River up to Atkins Reservoir (28:15) and back (24:59). I thought of calling up Phil to see if he wanted to join me, but i figured (1) 4 pm was a little too early for him, and (2) more importantly, I didn't need the struggle to try to keep up with him.
Although the legs felt at least mediocre, certainly better than yesterday. | ||
| C • Surely, you jest. 4 | ||
Monday May 5 | ||
| trail running 37:38 [2] | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| At Northfield Mountain after a round of rogaine practice at Northfield, which itself was after a morning of trying to get things done at home, where there is a long to-do list. Gail, of course has her own to-do list, one item is apparently to clean/organize her studio. Meanwhile, she has put on my list (is maybe it's our list, I'm not sure) to clean out my office enough that the floor can be vacuumed, something that has not been done to parts of that room for, well, it's certainly more than years, maybe best measured in decades.
So anyway, it occurred to me this morning, a little competition sometimes being good for the soul, that maybe the motivation I needed was to see if I could clean out my office before she cleaned out her studio, keeping in mind the likelihood of a long-term tie if neither of us ever got the cleaning up done. So I launched into cleaning, except I started in the bedroom, my side, and it is looking quite nice now, about three grocery bags of old magazines and papers are now ready to go out for recycling on Wednesday. Which is all great, except that pretty much used up all the enthusiasm I had for cleaning for the day (or maybe the week, or, one hopes not, maybe the month). So the office is in the exact state of chaos as it started the day. But I still have hope. After all, I voted for Obama. Oh, yes, the run. Slow, dead legs. But necessary under the new program to both improve conditioning and lower the G. All necessitated by my signing up for the Blue course at the Team Trials. Such foolishness.... | ||
| C • Why does the floor need to ... 2 | ||
| Note | |
Stopped in at the office after the run to deal with a late-filing client. Pure vanilla, absolutely simple, except he had figured he could do it himself. And when the bottom line showed he owed $1800, he gave me a ring. So we got that straightened out, modestly on the plus side with both the Feds and the state, who knows what he had done. And meanwhile we're chatting, he's the manager of a gas station / convenience store, and he's filling me in on all the latest, which station I shouldn't use a credit card at because they not to be trusted with such things, and what's happening with the guy who owned several stations and recently sold out and laid off several long-time employees with minimal severance packages, and a little more of this and a little more of that, and then he says,
Oh, and did you know, Swampfox turned 50 last week.And I said, No, you're shitting me, or something like that. Followed, of course, by, How the hell do you know that, do you know Swampfox? Well, of course he didn't actually know Swampfox, but the word on the street was that Swampfox had indeed turned 50, and he wasn't taking it very well. I mean, if you did a cross-section and counted the rings, old Mr. Swampfox would have as many rings as Ross and Samantha put together. And I'd guess pretty much anyone would rather be Ross and Samantha than an aging Swampfox. So, needless to say, I was in a bit of a state of shock, which I worked my way out of only by the realization that Mr. Swampfox, intelligent fellow that he is and also a fan of good comedy, and I'm sure of Dave Barry, well, I'm sure that Mr. Swampfox has already scheduled his first colonoscopy. So fine. | ||
| nautilus 40:00 [1] | |
| Finished off the day at the gym, also a struggle, but got it done. | ||
Sunday May 4 | ||
| orienteering 57:51 [3] 5.79 km (9:59 / km) +225m 8:22 / km | |
| shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| West Point, classic (M60 again). Foggy again, rocks still wet and slippery but all the rain passed overnight. Pretty good run, decent effort. One bad route, going over the hill on the way to #6 when along the pond was faster. And just a little bobble at #9, looked in the first set of boulders. But made good time down the hill at the end.
My routes. | ||
| C • over the hill or along the lake 4 | ||
| Note | |
| Nice weekend, good company. Went down with Charlie and Rhonda, seemed like carpooling was both more fun and more sensible. And a nice dinner Saturday evening with them and George and Lyn, and Kissy and Dave.
Got a nap on the way home, so there was still enough energy and daylight for a quick round of rogaine practice before it got dark. I'd have to say my orienteering was better. | ||
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