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Monday May 4, 2009 #
Running 33:18 [4] 4.19 km (7:57 / km) +75m 7:18 / km
One hill route with a loop around the rec center.
I haven't done this route in a long time. I felt great. Good songs kept coming up on my iPod, causing me to push a lot harder than I would have otherwise. I don't think that's the whole explanation, though---I was going a lot faster than normal. I wasn't plodding at all. It was awesome.
Coming up the big, long hill, the iPod kept me going. I started slow with U2, Beautiful Day, sort of a nice steady start. When it finished I had to skip about 4 songs. Then I got Blink 182 Aliens Exist (Live), which is kind of a moderate tempo song. Near the end, there was an up-change in tempo, and my legs just automatically tried to match it, but they were really heavy and they just found their own rhythm. As the hill slope diminished as I approached the top, another Blink song came on, Wendy Clear (Live), and I tried to shorten my strides to match the tempo. It worked pretty well, but I was breathing pretty hard. My legs were a little lighter. It was neat to feel both the lungs and the legs struggling.
Right after the crest (which is very subtle), *another* Blink 182 song came on, Carousel (again Live), which has an even higher tempo than the others. I did my best to run it in, and I did, but my stride was getting jerky.
Certainly this was one of my hardest training workouts in a long time. I hope I can run so easily in the weeks to come---that it wasn't a fluke. It felt so awesome to float for so much of the run.
I haven't done this route in a long time. I felt great. Good songs kept coming up on my iPod, causing me to push a lot harder than I would have otherwise. I don't think that's the whole explanation, though---I was going a lot faster than normal. I wasn't plodding at all. It was awesome.
Coming up the big, long hill, the iPod kept me going. I started slow with U2, Beautiful Day, sort of a nice steady start. When it finished I had to skip about 4 songs. Then I got Blink 182 Aliens Exist (Live), which is kind of a moderate tempo song. Near the end, there was an up-change in tempo, and my legs just automatically tried to match it, but they were really heavy and they just found their own rhythm. As the hill slope diminished as I approached the top, another Blink song came on, Wendy Clear (Live), and I tried to shorten my strides to match the tempo. It worked pretty well, but I was breathing pretty hard. My legs were a little lighter. It was neat to feel both the lungs and the legs struggling.
Right after the crest (which is very subtle), *another* Blink 182 song came on, Carousel (again Live), which has an even higher tempo than the others. I did my best to run it in, and I did, but my stride was getting jerky.
Certainly this was one of my hardest training workouts in a long time. I hope I can run so easily in the weeks to come---that it wasn't a fluke. It felt so awesome to float for so much of the run.