Friday May 18 |
 | Trail Run - Long / Easy 5:00 [2]0.75 km (6:40 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| Started out to warm up before testing Sprint A for the June 10th meet. But it was cold (43F) and raining so I decided to jog directly to the start and run the damn course and go home - not my favorite weather... |
| Orienteering - Training (Sprint A) 17:10 [3]2.73 km (6:17 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| Test run of the first sprint in the cold and rain. Legs a bit sluggish, but the run was pretty smooth. Like the flow of the legs, may shift a couple of controls to fine tune the route choice problems. Distance is actual run, course distance is 2.45
Leaf cover is now fully out (about a week and a half ahead of normal) but since Crandalls is mostly very open woods the running is pretty sweet - even with wet saplings.
I suspect speedy folk like JohnF will be in the 12-13 minute range for this one |
Wednesday May 16 |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy 10:00 [2]1.6 km (6:15 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| warmup run on the Nipmuck before the familiarization run |
| Trail Run - Tempo (Trail Study - familiariza) 41:15 [4]8.35 km (4:56 / km) | |
| weight:166lbs (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| First of a pair of familiarizations runs for an upcoming UConn Trail Running study I'm a guinea pig in. Looking objectively at dehydration and performance by staging (4) 7.5 mile runs - 2 a race pace, 2 at training pace. Each run is (3) 2.5 mile loops at Mansfield Hollow SP with a 4 minute rest while they poke prod and measure you. Each runner will run on of the race pace runs dehydrated, the other with measured hydration. Only ran two loops today to learn the course, next week will do another 3 loops, of which one loop will be at race pace to determine which of 5 seeded groups will be placed into - so basically I won't be running with the young NCAA runners (thank god). I'll probably run the course a few more times before the race series in June. Should be fun... |
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| C • training 1 |
Tuesday May 15 |
| Fieldwork (Crandalls) 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| An hour or so doing some fieldwork at Crandalls. They still haven't finished with the new parking lot, but it looks like most of the rough grade is done so I should be able to map it as is and have it wind up close enough. |
| Orienteering - Training (Crandalls Course Setting) 54:00 [2]4.5 km (12:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| Spent a little while running various ideas for leg options for the sprints. Actually running legs was at a pretty good pace, but also spent a lot of time standing around looking at the map wondering how I could make a given leg more interesting so that provides for a slow overall pace. |
| Other (Happy Feet) 40:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| Running Club - spent some time doing some running games on the field, then because it was pretty warm, headed into the woods for a brisk hike. |
Monday May 14 |
| Bike - 'bent (commute) 1:13:00 [3]25.2 km (2:54 / km) +351m 2:42 / km | |
| (sick) shoes: Slipstream |
| spring cold is really stuck in the chest now. But a nice ride - hills are always going to suck, but rode more of the ride in the big ring - max speed 62.2 km/h (downhill of course) |
| Bike - 'bent (commute) 1:15:00 [3]23.9 km (3:08 / km) +329m 2:56 / km | |
| (sick) shoes: Slipstream |
| commute home. nice day for riding but a lot of nasty glarp in my chest made it a bit of a slog. 43.7km/h max |
Sunday May 13 |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy (Shafran Loop) 34:19 [3]6.5 km (5:17 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| An honest to goodness run. Early AM, moderate pace out to Shafran, once around the loop CW then home. |
Saturday May 12 |
| Note | |
| slept:0.0 |
| Some may note that there is no entry for a commute home from work yesterday. That's because I'm still here. The Titan began opening yesterday around 4:10pm and reached its malodorous magnificence around midnight last night. We'll see if I'm in any shape for a commute home later today - or perhaps it may be tomorrow....
I'm getting too old for this all night crap....
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| Bike - 'bent (commute) 1:00:00 [3]20 km (3:00 / km) +300m 2:47 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| After 35 hours at work, rode the bike home this afternoon. Not a fast ride, but not as bad as it could have been |