Training Log Archive: bishop22

Called an ad hoc practice for the Webster Distance Team today, but was underwhelmed by the turnout. Only 4 kids and 2 of them were Chelsea and Nate. JP and Joe Freshman rounded out the squad for the day. Rumors of appearances by Clare, KDawg, Alex B (using his new license) and others turned out to be mere rumors.

Too bad. This was a FUN practice. No, wait, we took it to the Ultra-Fun level. We almost had the police come after us and Easter candy was the reward for the workout:
15 min w/up
2 person x 4 x 300m relay, which was pretty neat, because the finishers had to run back 100m to get to their next starting location. I tried to keep up with Chelsea - went 67, 67, 66, 64.
I sat out the next event (I had to place the Easter eggs) - there was an Easter egg set at each 200m mark and the first kid there grabbed it and was done. The handicap was they had to stay in their lanes the whole way: Joe, lane 1; Chelsea, lane 2; Josh, lane 6; Nate, lane 8. Chelsea won, then Nate, JP and Joe.
Then we did 8 x 100m strides, with different focus on each one.
8 min w/dn (only 6 min for me)

C • they missed out 1

Ran on an old course at Emery Park, on a map that Walt had at his house. I assume it was an Orange course - the distance is a total guess, since I don't have the map.

The snow was quite deep in some places (went above my knees without hitting bottom) and almost gone in other places. The roads were covered with frozen snow, but were still better than the unpredictable forest routes. I'm sure there was a way to predict where the snow was going to be deep (pines blocking the sun? hills facing north? obvious locations that promote drifts?), but I am clearly not observant enough to figure it out.

Managed to successfully cross all of the streams, until the last one, near the old playground area - went around on the bridge instead. I'm guessing the next thaw will make the area near the 400 a real mess, but those streams were quite low now.

Afterwards went to a very disappointing Sabres game. It's always extra disappointing against Toronto, with all of the obnoxious Leaf fans in the house.

Cruise Intervals with the track team, after a 10 min w/up. We did 5 x 3 inside loops in the school, which is rumored to be 300m, so it was 5x900m. Times:
3:40, 3:32, 3:31, 3:29, 3:30 (averaged just under 1 minute recovery).

I was closer to the big boys with each interval, until the last one. The times seem a little quick for 900m, but given the waves of nausea that I'm experiencing, perhaps it was almost that effort (3:30 would be 6:15 pace, I would have guessed it was closer to 6:30 pace).

Finished up with 15 min w/dn outside in the cold and wind. Is it really just 1 week until the scrimmage?

No time to get over to the Y (or eat) at lunch, so the only workout was running to make up Walt's head-start after the Sabres game, but he didn't turn out to have much of a lead on me after all.

Great game - probably the best of the season. An anemic 2 shots on goal in the 2nd period was followed by a surge of energy (on the ice and in the stands) in the 3rd and a 4-1 deficit (and virtual playoff elimination) was turned into a 7-4 win (and maintained playoff contention).

Track practice in the cold rain - I guess the only good thing is that it wasn't raining that hard during the workout. Track was too snow-covered, so we hopped on the bike path along 104

Did 2 x 600m (roughly - it was based on Nate and Alex running for 2:10 on the first one, but I believe it was fairly accurate, since on the last one I timed 3 measured tenths of a mile and was just under 6 minute pace which would be 2:15, and I ran 2:11.

Ran 2:22, 2:16 on the first 600s
10:07 worth of tempo (probably under 7 min pace)
2:23, 2:11 on the last 600s

Second 600 was faster in each set because the wind was more out of the east for a change.

Poor turnout, only Nate and Alex were ahead of me. Drew was nearby at times, then it was back to Joe, Alex N, Afro Thunder and Bobby. Kenny is still singing and dancing (I guess Whitty and Chris probably are, too), Nico skipped off to Vegas for some reason, JP decided to work the shot, AJ made an appearance yesterday, but was a no-show today and assorted others were field event poseurs today.

C • sorry 2

Scott forgot his running shoes, so he wanted to work thru a problem with me, instead of running. Then I ended up at work until after 7, so I went directly to Bayview and hopped on the treadmill for a bit. Achilles was a little sore, not enough to force me to stop, but enough to limit me to 4 miles.

21 min Random Hills-13 @ 94 rpm
2 min w/dn
10 min Manual, at 11 and 12.
2 min w/dn

RH3 Green Dress Run - shortest trail I've ever been on. But good times!