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Saturday Mar 20, 2010 #
8 AM
Elliptical (intervals) 1:00:00 [3]
ahr:150 max:184
One 60 degree day and I'm spoiled.
I am TIRED of the cold weather-felt no desire to run outside, and felt it was time for a little cross-training, anyway. Went to gym, got heart rate up high 8 times, back down again.... and then maintained hr ~150 for remainder of time.
I am TIRED of the cold weather-felt no desire to run outside, and felt it was time for a little cross-training, anyway. Went to gym, got heart rate up high 8 times, back down again.... and then maintained hr ~150 for remainder of time.
Thursday Mar 18, 2010 #
Terraining (back woods/warm-down) 27:00 [3] 2.5 mi (10:48 / mi)
First time I've been on my backwoods trail since the snow melted. Much more fun. Much easier. I will have to extend the trail soon.... I think I can get another 1/2 mile out of it.
Wednesday Mar 17, 2010 #
Terraining (Afton State Park) 1:23:00 [3] 7.5 mi (11:04 / mi)
shoes: Inov8 Roclite 305
It's 60 today! I know it has been 60 in Minnesota for a few days this week, but this is MY first 60 degree day, and I decided NOT to use the gym, but run on the non-snow covered terrain, with my Afton Map. The plan was to alternate between picking random points and selecting best routes, and just running through the area and being very aware of the terrain vs. the map.
Great plan, except I also indulged in wearing shorts instead of my buckthorn-busting pants. Mistake. Got a bit bloody and then decided to be more careful, using both hands to clear a path and grab carefully onto branches, and lost my map up a steep thorny hill in the process. (I was also holding Alice's leash and my compass). So I wandered back down and around the steep thorny hill for a while, map-searching, before giving up. No more map running.
Then I decided to follow deer paths, but even these were straight through buckthorn patches, and it was slowing me down so much that I wasn't feeling I was getting much of anything... no good terrain running, no map reading, no speed, no workout.
Plan C was just to run though the hilly prairie areas a bit, run up and down some paths, select my wooded areas a bit more carefully. Not the workout I had planned but much less painful on the legs. I've worn shorts and gotten plenty scratched up in races, and never felt a thing. But without any real purpose or adrenaline... it hurts!
I'm SOOOO glad it's Spring (for now), warm and light out.
Great plan, except I also indulged in wearing shorts instead of my buckthorn-busting pants. Mistake. Got a bit bloody and then decided to be more careful, using both hands to clear a path and grab carefully onto branches, and lost my map up a steep thorny hill in the process. (I was also holding Alice's leash and my compass). So I wandered back down and around the steep thorny hill for a while, map-searching, before giving up. No more map running.
Then I decided to follow deer paths, but even these were straight through buckthorn patches, and it was slowing me down so much that I wasn't feeling I was getting much of anything... no good terrain running, no map reading, no speed, no workout.
Plan C was just to run though the hilly prairie areas a bit, run up and down some paths, select my wooded areas a bit more carefully. Not the workout I had planned but much less painful on the legs. I've worn shorts and gotten plenty scratched up in races, and never felt a thing. But without any real purpose or adrenaline... it hurts!
I'm SOOOO glad it's Spring (for now), warm and light out.
Monday Mar 15, 2010 #
Elliptical 32:00 [3]
at the hotel, near Heathrow.
Also walked about 2.5 hours at the Hampton Court Palace.
Also walked about 2.5 hours at the Hampton Court Palace.
Sunday Mar 14, 2010 #
Run 2:30:00 [3] 13.0 mi (11:32 / mi)
Central Oxford, past Oxford commons on the THames tow path, through Wolvecote and on to the footpath by the Thames.
A nice slow run, with no thinking or map required... just folllow the great long handrail out for 75 minutes and then back. And open and close numerous livestock gates.
Got to run through fields with sheep, cow, by the early morning fishermen, people walking their dogs..(near Oxford), and just enjoy the calm beauty of the English countryside with virtually no one else around.
Thames river was much cleaner and clearer than I expected... and the paths were soft dirt or grass, flat, of course.
On the way back by the Thames, ran alongside the Oxford women practicing their sculling. Then back along canal path, walked the last couple of streets.
And came home to an English breakfast. Yum.
Today.... check out the "harry potter sights" with my daughter, more good food and just walking around enjoying architecture, food, outdoors, and family.
A nice slow run, with no thinking or map required... just folllow the great long handrail out for 75 minutes and then back. And open and close numerous livestock gates.
Got to run through fields with sheep, cow, by the early morning fishermen, people walking their dogs..(near Oxford), and just enjoy the calm beauty of the English countryside with virtually no one else around.
Thames river was much cleaner and clearer than I expected... and the paths were soft dirt or grass, flat, of course.
On the way back by the Thames, ran alongside the Oxford women practicing their sculling. Then back along canal path, walked the last couple of streets.
And came home to an English breakfast. Yum.
Today.... check out the "harry potter sights" with my daughter, more good food and just walking around enjoying architecture, food, outdoors, and family.