Training Log Archive: ultra_amy

Pisgah 50k - was told not to 'race' this, so I enjoyed the day, and only really worked hard in the last 5.5 miles (when I was alone on the trail, and heard the next female was only a few minutes back). Figured if I could run strong over the last section that it wasn't likely I would get caught. With 1.3 miles to go, realized that if I worked hard, I might bring my CR down by a bit - so I pushed it in to bring the course record down by another 2 minutes...not too shabby! Right hammie is super tight, but the rest of the legs feel great.

Training run w/ Aliza at Ascutney - great fun to run around some of the roads of the VT50 and VT100 course...but even better to have the company of Aliza for some miles. Legs felt great - and I felt much stronger on the big ups and downs of Vermont (which chewed me up earlier this year on a training run!).

XC team had a race at Daniel Webster - so I did a little bit of sprinting around and cheering - disjointed running...technically a day off, with as little running as I could get away with. It felt great!

Easy shake-out run with the girls team around Chicopee, followed by 4 x striders.

Easy run w/ Frank and the boys at the Holyoke Elks. Felt good! Nothing of note. Glad the boys wanted to keep the run shorter...so I didn't have to duck away early to keep mileage down.

Easy run with the girls - did short lap with Abby and Bear, then did the rest with Laura and Kim - ran around Holyoke. Run was a hair longer than expected because of flooding at the Holyoke Res (so we had to re-route).

Easy run w/ Nick at Mt. Tom, started easy around Whiting Res, then ran to bottom of ski slope. Ran up it once - concentrating not on speed, but on continual running (which felt much easier than when I did that workout earlier this year), then recovered and went home. Wasn't looking for a ton of miles - just wanted to keep Nick company for the start of his hill repeats.

Tempo Tuesday with Annie - we did the Holyoke Loop (4.5 miles) around the Res to warm up. I needed a bit to warm up, and Annie was chomping at the bit immediately - we finished that hilly loop in 33 minutes. Then, we dropped into 'tempo' around the Holyoke Res., keeping it conversational but pushing the pace just a bit (4 miles) in 27 minutes. We were pretty pleased - that's faster than any other time we ran that loop, and we felt like it was hard but not killer. Awesome!

Easy run w/ the team at the Holyoke Elks. Ran with Abby, and Rachel joined us for about half the run (great run for her!) - the boys also tried to join for a bit, but didn't last long. Great easy run, and glad Rachel pushed it just a touch to stay with us.

No idea the actual distance - but did the workout with the team, pushing all of the athletes. Started with an easy warmup around HCC, had to double back for Maddie. Then, we did the HCC hill repeats - I didn't feel like I was pushing hard in the workout, I paced out some of the guys - we did 15 minutes. Then, we did a track workout of 1 min, 2 min, 3 min on (half time recovery) - so I pushed Rachel L. for the first set and Jessie for the second set. Cooled down back to cars, and did an extra loop with Abby (who insisted she needed to make the run a full hour...and had missed the warmup). Felt good - didn't have to push the pace really to keep up with these athletes.