Training Log Archive: bishop22

First round of Club Champs. Made 4 pars on the front, but only managed 43. A terrible 47 on the back. 5 times in the sand meant 4 doubles and 1 bogey. 3 3-putts on the last 5 holes. Plenty to work on before tomorrow.

Decided to run as many minutes as I took strokes today. If I swung a golf club as many times as I had minutes of training this summer, I would not have shot a 90.

Ran over to Ellison Wetlands, along the White trail (except where I lost it briefly and took Salmon to the old main trail, which is somewhat overgrown), out to Old Browncroft and down to the little trail just east of the creek, which was also VERY overgrown in the middle, into Ellison Park, stayed north of the mountain, over to the NE corner (staying low) and around to Blossom - Browncroft-Qualtrough-Embury-Scribner-Timberline and in. Managed 3:30 for the last 1/2 mile.

19:35 to the gate at the Wetlands (2.3381 miles) (8:22 pace)
21:44 to the gate on Old Browncroft (est 9:15 pace) (2.35 miles)
2:26 to the Creek and into Ellison Park (0.3419 miles) (7:07 pace)
13:06 in the park (est 8:30 pace) (1.54 miles)
5:42 up the hill to Browncroft (0.6082 miles) (9:22 pace)
27:28 on the roads home to (3.3667 miles) (8:09 pace)

Some easy running before and during the Blue & Gold meet at Webster Park.

The boys may wind up better than I thought this year - Nate may push the kids who don't want to get beat by the little weasel.

The girls still have some serious potential, but they need to show up - only six girls at the intrasquad meet today.

Easy run during XC practice - legs fairly sore today, but a "good" sore, I think. Had to put my laptop away when the run started, so I went backwards to try to find the guys, but they took the assigned course, and I had thought one road was not complete so I took a parallel-ish road and missed them.

Awful - 46. At least I wasn't at work.

XC Practice at Ellison Park. Did the same workout as last week. We had planned on upping it a bit (an extra 400 before and after an extra 15 seconds on each hill), but the temp was in the 90s, so I figured that should be accommodated a bit.

16 min w/up

3x400m
93 (long, wrong tree), 86, 83 (~2.5 min recovery, incl 2 min of jogging)
6x45 second hills (jog down recovery - 1:15)
3x400m
86, 85, 85

9 min w/dn

Weight up significantly after 6 slices of pizza last night, and a lot of [diet] soda.

Since the tire place didn't open until 8, I had Chelsea drop me off and head to practice, then I ran over (21:37 - 8:46 pace). After I did enough standing around the weight room - had some stuff to discuss - we sent the kids out for a loop to run. I ran backwards over to the village (19:32 - 8:56 pace), but after stretching awhile there was no sign of the boys, so I headed back to Ridge, where I caught up with the second pack of girls, just after Jackson, and I ran in with them (21:34 - 9:01 pace). All a little slow due to a sore butt area (right side, too, not just the traditional left side), and tired legs from yesterday.

Sleep was limited because Chris got up early, so I figured I'd check out the eclipse. Saw the early part, then the clouds moved so I could see it near totality, and a bit of total, then it became too light.

10 minutes of stretching in the middle of the run.

XC Practice at Webster Park

About 1.8mi w/up (16:00)

Just under 2mi Tempo run (13:06), then too much recovery time (almost 4 minutes) while I read off times to all of the kids that don't have watches (16 of 27 were watchless today - they got to do 20 push-ups for the transgression), then the rest of the tempo workout (7:00, at about 6:45 pace).

15:00 w/dn at just over 8min pace

4 strides

The kids did 7 minutes. I figured I had better stop after 3, or I might not be able to sit up in the morning.

Weight was actually last night, after the Night-O. I had to document it, since it is the lowest measured value in at least 15 years.

I was feeling too lazy after the golf outing, so I decided a day off would be OK.

Played with Scott - first time I've managed to arrange a game with a guest all year, despite the fact that I had to pay for 3 passes, whether I use them or not.

Started with a double, so expectations were low, but hit a decent streak and was 41 after 9. Then I started with a bird on 10 (just off the back of the green in 2, on the par 5). A double on 14 rained on my chances of breaking 80 for the first time, but I turned around and birdied 15. Just needed 3 pars, on 3 of the easier holes on the course. But I finished double-double-bogey for an 84. I need to toughen up down the stretch.