Training Log Archive: mariaamaya

WOW! What an incredible run! It was a perfect day with a fabulous group of people and lovely setting. I'm so glad I did this run. It was the Third Occasional Manhattan Bridge Run and we ran all 18 bridges on Manhattan.

The group was starting at the bus terminal and then heading over the GWB, where I was going to meet them. I met another guy (Mori) there and we waited for the group, and waited, and waited. Finally, we decided we could wait no longer and took off, luckily they had posted the map on map my run and we ran across the bridge and headed over to where we though they would be returning from the next bridge. We found them and off we went!

It was a gorgeous sunny day, here's the url for the pics:

http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Trail-Ultrarunning/...

I'm in pics #5, 6, 7, 12-15 - wearing a light blue jacket, sunglasses and white hat.

Anyway, I had my regular protein/spinach shake, GF oatmeal and a small bowl of squash - my energy lasted all day! On the run I had coconut water, dried mango and a Kind bar - geez, I don't think that's enough, hmm, but I didn't feel like I was needing any more. Oh, I remembered the salt caps, they helped sooooo much because I did start bloating and literally as soon as I took the salt caps, they immediately helped! But I ran out a little too early.

I pushed hard quite a bit, I was thinking of going slow and easy around 10 m/miles but I just felt so good and had so much energy that I just ran how I felt and I thought if it's too much then I will feel it towards the end and just lose energy... but I never did! I was pushing hard enough that I could hold the pace indefinitely but not too hard that I was going to give out.

Mile 1 - 10:13-----Mile 11 - 9:10-----Mile 21 - 9:21-----Mile 31 - 10:26
Mile 2 - 10:03-----Mile 12 - 9:28-----Mile 22 - 10:02
Mile 3 - 9:34------Mile 13 - 8:55------Mile 23 - 9:53
Mile 4 - 9:44------Mile 14 - 9:57------Mile 24 - 8:45
Mile 5 - 10:04----Mile 15 - 11:52----Mile 25 - 9:46
Mile 6 - 9:39------Mile 16 - 8:58------Mile 26 - 10:08
Mile 7 - 9:11------Mile 17 - 9:00-----Mile 27 - 10:11
Mile 8 - 9:30------Mile 18 - 8:26-----Mile 28 - 12:17
Mile 9 - 9:25------Mile 19 - 10:03---Mile 29 - 8:07
Mile 10 - 9:09----Mile 20 - 9:19-----Mile 30 - 16:10

We finished at the Brooklyn Bridge which means I still needed to get back up to the GWB (11.0 miles away) - I wanted to run but it was tough because I was done! Mori, this other girl (Tiger) and I walked up (2.76 miles) to 23rd street, we ran a bit but not enough to document. When we got to 23rd Street, Tiger was breaking off, so she gave me an awesome massage - she's in massage school and loves to do it anytime she can! :)

At that point, I was frozen, I actually started shaking I was so cold. So, Mori and I got into a taxi and took it up to the GWB. We got out at 180th and then ran across the bridge (1.23 miles), I'm sure we ran at about a 10:30 m/mile, it was slow. The wind was fierce up there! So, all in all, absolutely great run and for my last here in the city, it couldn't have been any better.

Walk from end of run to 23rd Street, easy jog here and there but 95% walking.

Run across the GWB just trying to make it to the car! Brrr!

Good run, hilly short run.

0-15 flat @ 6.2 mph
Increase 1% every min
Decrease .1 mph every min for first 2 min then decrease .2 mph every min until 15%

From 13% - 14% increase 1 mph
From 14%- 15% increase 1 mph

From 15% and down increase speed by .1 mph and decrease incline by 1%

From 44 - 45 min decrease incline by .5% (at 6.6 mph)
From 45 - 46 min increase incline to 1% ( at 6.8 mph)

Then maintain incline at 1%
46 - 50 min @ 6.8 mph
50 - 55 min @ 7.0 mph

Good little push.

More sleep last night, much better today!

Started slow but quickly energized.

First 48 min slow, easy @ 6.2 mph
4 strides at 11.0 mph then 6.3 mph Rest
52-60 min @ 6.3 mph

Still feeling pain and what feels like a muscle pull in my right inner thigh/groin.

Absolutely no energy today!

I went to bed at 9:30pm but had to get up at 3:45am. Needless to say I didn't fall asleep for a while and the early morning wake up was brutal.

So, I had to do something, I walked.

Started at 4.0 mph
1% increase every 1 minute to 15%
at 15% held for 2 minutes
1% decrease every 2 minutes until 31 minutes where I stopped at 7%

31-33 min increase to 8%
33-35 min increase to 9%
35-37 min increase to 10%

Held 10% incline
37-39 min increase to 4.1 mph
39-41 min increase to 4.2 mph
41-43 min increase to 4.3 mph

Held 4.3 mph
43-45 min decrease to 9%
45-47 min decrease to 8%
47-49 min decrease to 7%
49-51 min decrease to 6%
51-53 min decrease to 5%

Held 5% incline
53-55 min increase to 4.4 mph
55-60 min increase to 4.5 mph

Ended up being a good, hard incline walk!