Training Archive: AcampbellIn the 31 days ending 2008-03-31:
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Sunday Mar 30 | ||
| orienteering 1:34:00 [3] 5.7 km (16:29 / km) | |
| shoes: New o-ing shoes | ||
| I don't even want to talk about this course i did so bad! i attacked half the controls like 3 times before actually finding it, driffting, thinking i was one place and was actually another. just a crappy run. and to top it off i have the two biggest blisters on my heels and i smashed my good knee into a rock. So yeah drew i'm definetally part of suckville now!
i think i'm going to take tomorrow off from track which means i probably won't be able to race on wednesday, i'm kinda ok with that though. would rather sit out this race than be hurt for the summer and sweden. also i think i'm getting a cold so the rest would be good. | ||
| C • orienteering 3 | ||
Saturday Mar 29 | ||
| erg -rowing machine 55:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| went and did a group row class with my mom at the gym this morning. Was actually a lot of fun and not too hard but i worked on my form so was harder than just pulling | ||
| running 3:20 [3] 0.5 mi (6:39 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Mom tried to get me to use the treadmill at the gym. I really didn't like it so only did a half mile at like race pace (or almost anyway) | ||
| strength 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| used some of the weight machines at the gym for your arms. | ||
Thursday Mar 27 | ||
| running warm up/down 2:30 [1] 0.2 mi (12:29 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| warm up jog to the path | ||
| stretching warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| tight from yesterdays meet | ||
| running 46:45 [2] 4.4 mi (10:37 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Nice long slow recovery run today. Murder practice tomorrow! | ||
Wednesday Mar 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Ok i just found out that i have to run the 3200, 1600 AND the 800!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
and everyone keeps telling me it is all mental right now, that it is just me freaking myself out and that i can do it it is just me being able to tell myself i can that i'm missing. Well i'm not so sure i know i can run that far, but not that far at the race pace everyone else is going to be running it at. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH | ||
| C • Why all 3? 4 | ||
| running warm up/down 5:00 [2] 0.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| two warm up laps around the track. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretching as a team and then on my own while waiting for the mile | ||
| running warm up/down 10:00 [1] 0.5 mi (19:58 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| slow jog warm up before the mile. The sad thing was we were jogging like along side the track at one point. (like outside the fence) and we were almost jogging the same speed the girls were running the 4x800. | ||
| Track race 6:52 [4] 1.0 mi (6:51 / mi) vdot: 41.6 | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| First high school track race! haven't run in a track meet since 8th grade so 2years (10th grade now)
So i thought this was going to feel a lot harder than it did. they ran the boys and girls together as there were only 3 girls and not a ton of guys. And i managed to keep up with some of the guys and lap both of the other girls. So that felt good. I think i would have been able to run it faster if i had some people around me. I only had my team mate Sam behind me and he wasn't really pushing me, i think i was pushing him lol. But yeah it didn't feel as hard as i remember it but i remember a 6:41 race so this was a bit slower. I really want to get like a 6:20-6:30 by the end of the season. that is my goal for myself. Slow but oh well. oh yeah so splits (so not 100% accurate as my coach wasn't standing at the finish he was just finishing up helping with the high jump): 1:30, 2:47, 4:29, 6:52 | ||
| stretching warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretching and jogging to keep warm and lose between races. | ||
| Track race 3:10 [5] 0.5 mi (6:19 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Again ran the boys and girls together as there were so few of us. This was the one race i was scared about as i wasn't so good at it in middle school, i didn't think i had enough speed to do well. felt fine though! had an ok time i think about 8 seconds faster than my 8th grade time so that was cool. and i won outta the girls, they all started too fast. Oh and a guy almost tripped over me at the beginning of the race as he tried like cutting in right on me, like we bumped feet, and actually when i went to put on my sweats my shoe actually had a hole in it from his cleat. it was weird.
again weird splits from my coach as he was standing in a weird spot: 1:28, 3:10 | ||
| stretching warm up/down 5:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| coach helped me stretch my legs out as my hip and caves were hurting. | ||
| Track race 15:29 [5] 2.0 mi (7:45 / mi) vdot: 38.9 | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Last race for me of the day. Only girl in the race so again had to run with the guys. Me and my two guy distance team mates stayed together for most of the race. So Mike we drafted off first (it was quite windy out) for 2 laps. Then we switched and the guys drafted off me as all i had to do was finish they had to do well so we tried to make it easier on them. So they probably drafted me for about 4 or 5 laps. Then the last two we kinda started to separate. Mike pulled ahead but i just couldn't keep up. my coach kept telling me to catch him and this other guy and i got closer to them but could pass or catch them. and then Sam came in behind me. So over all a great race but i do wish i had run it faster, but this is a good base line.
splits (right ones this time, i think): 1:49, 3:32, 5:34, 7:36, 9:40, 11:41, 13:35, 15:29 oh yeah and sandy I thought about your comment on the last two laps, and thought about all you guys and so tried hard to just pick it up and get a good time to report back to you all. i think i left basically everything that i had today on the track. | ||
| C • Congrats on a successful fi... 7 | ||
| Note | |
| knee didn't really bug me today (goes to knock on some wood) so that was nice!!! iced though for about 15-20mins when we got back. | ||
Tuesday Mar 25 | ||
| Note | |
| So woke up and caves felt really tight and my nose was a bit runny and i couldn't stop sneezing. I really hope that my sister isn't giving me her cold. | ||
| C • hey alison!
geeze you log... 2 | ||
| running warm up/down 3:00 [1] 0.2 mi (14:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| ran to the path as a warm up. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 27:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Long stretch today as we have a track meet tomorrow WHICH I'M SUPER SCARED ABOUT!!!!! | ||
| running 50:00 [2] 3.6 mi (13:53 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| ok so neither coach could come so we were told by one of them to just do a long stretch and then to Gerard Bridge and back easy. there were four of us. three of us can run the fourth girl Amy has just joined the team so this was a hard work out for her. So we had to run as a group so we decided we were going to get Amy to finish this run which is why it is so slow. I ended up holding her hand and like pulling her along for most of it. She kept saying i can't, i can't. So i'm hopping that now that she knows she can run this far she won't say i can't so much and have more confidence. Pulling her along was a workout as well even though we were going slow which is why i logged this as a 2 and not a 1. But we did it! she finished all 3.6 miles!!
7:40- first mile with mike at a decent pace 3:00- wait for sam and amy 17:00- 1.5 miles with amy 6:00- break for bathroom and water and for amy 11:00- last mile back to the train track crossing 5:40- walk back up to the school. so not a super hard workout but something. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| another stretch back at school. Caves REALLY hurt actually. especially my right one where i got the really bad cramp yesterday. | ||
| strength 2:00 [1] | |
| 50 crunches
OK so i'm SUPER scared about my track meet tomorrow. I think i'm running the 3200m AND the 1600m. And my coaches are telling me all these fast times like 12mins for the 3200m and like under 5mins for the 1600m, and i really just don't think i can do that! So i guess we will see how it goes. and wow i feel like i'm logging every little thing i do, hmmm maybe i shouldn't. idk it is good motivation for me though so idk. | ||
| C • under 5 minutes for a mile ... 5 | ||
Monday Mar 24 | ||
| running warm up/down 14:00 [2] 1.25 mi (11:11 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| warm up jog to Lemon hill to run hills. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Normal stretches at lemon hill but it took like the middle distance runners 5mins to catch up with the distance runners and about 8 for the sprinters to come. | ||
| Track 11:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| track drills up and down the hill. | ||
| running hills 45:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| 15 times up and down Lemon Hill. That doesn't sound so bad as we did about 30 or 40 during cross country. But boy was i wrong! well first off my sprinting coach wanted to time all of them so we had to wait for everyone to jog back down the hill and line up again. That hurt so badly!!! my legs and butt just cramped up while waiting so badly!! Thank goodness my long distance coach talked my sprinting coach into letting us just run them after 5 of them. so the last 10 we just ran.
first 5 though were: 33 35 36 40 43 then i don't even want to think what the last 10 were probably really slow!!!! | ||
| running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 1.25 mi (15:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| the jog back to school from Lemon Hill. I got a huge cramp in my right cave just under half way back. Big enough i had to stop, stretch it, walk for a bit and then continue running. Then i kept getting short little cramps in both my calves the rest of the way back. I walked the last few blocks back and i just felt like i needed to throw up the whole time. I got back to school went up to the office put the ice pack on my knee and almost feel asleep on the couch in my principals office.
I felt really tired and sick when i got done with this and i shouldn't feel like this. I think i need more water and healthy foods. | ||
Sunday Mar 23 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Legs still hurt a bit today, but not a bad. Had to spend most of the day doing homework again. Why do we get so much work over spring break really? so not fair! i thought the whole point of spring break was a BREAK!!! oh well. | ||
| C • That's too bad that they ga... 2 | ||
Saturday Mar 22 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Ok so i woke up today and i could hardly move. My legs hurt so badly, and my butt. I like couldn't sit down on anything that wasn't soft. moving was quite slow. I guess i didn't stretch enough yesterday. Sadly though it was ok that i couldn't move as i had to spend all day doing homework i put off doing since i got back. | ||
Friday Mar 21 | ||
| Event: JK 2008 | ||
| running warm up/down 4:02 [2] 0.5 mi (8:04 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| two lap warm up | ||
| Track warm up/down 39:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretching, 25 push ups, track drills | ||
| running 32:00 [3] 2.75 mi (11:38 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| was supposed to be a 30 min run but running back up the hill to the track took longer than i thought it would as i was more sore/tired than i thought i was. made it down to forbiden Drive for a few mins before having to turn around. nice run but the hills started bugging my right knee after a bit.
distance is a guess might have been a little further but with the hills it seamed more likely to be closer to 2.75 | ||
| strength 12:22 [4] 0.35 mi (35:21 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| 100m of lunges and then a lap of back wards running. not sure what to log it under so just put strength | ||
| stretching warm up/down 12:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretching after practice, caves were really tight.
we then tried fitting everyone in my coaches car to go get hogies and catch the bus, that was interesting. iced when i got home. Both knees this time. | ||
| Note | |
| wow i just looked at my log time for this month so far and it is 10:10:10 lol | ||
Thursday Mar 20 | ||
| Track warm up/down 46:00 [3] 0.75 mi (1:01:20 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| had practice at Roxburrow highs track.
2 warm up laps stretching as a team then 50 crunches and 30 pushups then track warm up drills. | ||
| running 20:00 [3] 1.0 mi (20:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| was told to go for an easy 20 min run by the sprint coach. Well an easy run around here is not at all easy. it was super hilly!!!! knee actually hurt a little bit at the end. I think it was from too much hills on concrete and not running for over a week. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 12:40 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| between 20 mins run and track workout | ||
| Track intervals 28:00 [4] 1.5 mi (18:40 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| was supposed to run two 200s, two 400s, and one 800. I didn't make it though. ran two 200s the second one my knee got a sharp pain up it. I'm getting so sick of this STUPID knee!!!!! but i was also getting freaked out by how big the track felt and how close our meet was. I haven't run on a track since 8th grade. I actually mental freaked myself out today! i'm not sure i can run 8 laps around the track at once. It is huge!!! way bigger than i remember. I really don't think i can do this!!! becuase of that i knew that if i didn't run one more 200 or a 400 after my knee acted up i would freak my self out even more so after walking the rest of the way around the track and standing at the starting line for i bit i talked myself into running a 200 just so that i knew i could do it.
1st 200- 40secs 2nd- 1min 1sec 3rd- 43secs 400- 1 min 37secs after that i just stretched a bit again and just sat and stared at the track. I have no idea what got into me but i was really scared! i really don't want to be last and i want to have a good time but i really don't think i'll be able to do that!!! not having a distance coach there pushing me is taking its toll. it has been all me, making up training some times, pushing myself, not getting coached, not getting told what i'm doing wrong or what i can do to improve. UGH | ||
| C • You can do it! It's much be... 7 | ||
Wednesday Mar 19 | ||
| Note | |
| slept:11.0 (rest day) | ||
| OK so i got home from liverpool yesterday afternoon. GREAT TRIP!!!! soo much fun!!! the girls were so lovely and i can't wait to see them when they come here in november or march!!!! we had way too much fun and did soo much this post would be pages long if i tried to tell you everything. But we did a few tours, i got to go to a football (aka soccer) game at anfield, visited their school, and was down in london for a day. Missing the girls a lot now!!!
so did a ton of walking and didn't get much sleep but not going to log any of it as it wasn't really a workout and we all eat so much (the food is amazing!!!) that it overrides it. was supposed to go to track practice today at 10am but woke up at 10:20 and i'm still super tired. hopefully will make it tomorrow as our first meet is on the 26th. | ||
| C • Sounds like you had a blast... 3 | ||
Wednesday Mar 12 | ||
| Note | |
| So off to Liverpool with a group of people from school tonight. there are 10 students and 2 teachers going, and we are visiting an all girls school there and learning about how they do things there and staying with host families and such. Should be a lot of fun!!!! however that means that for almost a week i'll have no chance to do any training. well unless you count all the walking around Liverpool i'll be doing... | ||
| C • that sounds really exciting... 5 | ||
Tuesday Mar 11 | ||
| running warm up/down 3:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| two warm up laps around the building. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 16:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| team stretching | ||
| Track 5:30 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Track warm up drills up and down the hall | ||
| Track 13:45 [4] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| mountain climber drill with the sprint people as i was the only distance runner and no distance coach again. so 1 min of mountain climbers, then 30sec break. 3 sets with 2 min rest in between the sets. and we had like weights that we had to do it over so that we couldn't cheat. it hurt as my right hip like kept cracking. | ||
| stairmaster hills 20:00 [3] | |
| did some stairmaster in our weight room while the sprinters did more drills in the hall way. My coach was like i could go for like a 10-15 min run but decided that i would get more out of doing the stairmaster for that long so thats how the stairmaster comes into the picture. Getting a little sick of making my work outs up on my own as i have no idea if what i'm doing helps at all. :/ | ||
Monday Mar 10 | ||
| Track 56:32 [3] 4.0 mi (14:08 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| had to talk to one of my teachers after school so missed the beginning of practice. So no warm up or stretching. I actually thought i was going to have to run on my own and i would see everyone coming back. turned out i was wrong! but there were no other distance runners and no distance coach so kinda had to make up my own practice. thats why i stuck this under track as i did so much random stuff i didn't know how to separate it.
6:05-sprint to catch up with everyone (~.75 miles) 3:00- jog with everyone to were they were going to practice relays 8:45- stretching while the sprinters set up there relay 10:14- decided i was going to run two miles while they did that so just over a mile out. 8:42- mile back, jogged like just under 10ish pace the whole way and then pushed the last 1/4 mile 1:30- cool down jog back to everyone 7:40- drills with the sprinters 5:56- jog back to the train tracks (~.75) 3:27- cool down jog back to school (~.15) distances are a guess but i think over all i ran just over 4 miles but logging as 4. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretching back at school actually waiting for all the sprinters to get back. Turns out the walked back after drills, so i could have walked lol. | ||
| strength 8:00 [2] | |
| 3 sets of 50 sit ups with 30 second breaks in between. and then 10 push ups. i really need to start working on my push ups i used to be able to do at least 25 without dying! | ||
Friday Mar 7 | ||
| Note | |
| slept:6.2 | ||
| Ok so stayed up until 1am trying to finish work, brain died at that point so went to bed. Got up at like 7:10 to attempt to get more work done (didn't really happen) went to school and that was painful!!! i think everything that could have gone wrong today did or everything that needed to get done very little of it actually got done. And then there was a whole like social thing that went on. I'm really not enjoying high school at the moment!!! very much looking forward to going to Uni!!
So then a hard track practice and now i should be finishing up the work that was due today but i'm writing this instead. | ||
| C • ahhhh Alison, I'm sorry! If... 2 | ||
| running intervals 33:18 [3] 3.5 mi (9:31 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Hard track practice as i was beat from a hard school day, and it was raining (by the end quite hard)
we did intervals were we would run 1min at 400m pace, 2 min jog, 1 min 800m pace, 2min jog, 1 min 1600m pace, 2 min jog, 1 min 3200m pace, then mile jog in between before doing that all again on the way back. Then we had to sprint as fast as we could the last like 200m. I finished, walked like 5 steps and layed down on the path (which of course was a puddle by now so got soaked even more) i was so beat. Side hurt a bit like a crap i used to get from drinking water during practice but i had no water so wonder why i got that. maybe not enough water during the day? | ||
| walking warm up/down 6:00 [1] 0.1 mi (59:58 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| slow jog/walk back to school. | ||
Thursday Mar 6 | ||
| running warm up/down 7:00 [1] 0.1 mi (1:09:58 / mi) | |
| slept:8.0 shoes: Saucony | ||
| jog down to the path and then a quick stretch as it was a bit windy/cold. | ||
| running 36:35 [3] 4.0 mi (9:08 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| First official track practice!!! distance people went for a nice easy ~40 min run. we ended up running faster than we thought (maybe cus two of us had to go to the bathroom, me being one, so we ran faster to the bathroom lol) but was breathing harder than i wanted to for this distance/pace. But at least i was out getting a work out right? my track team is really small so not a lot of people to push me to train/run hard sadly a lot of that is going to have to be mental encouragement on my part. first race i hear is on the 26th so coming up fast! i hope i'm ready!!!
17:33-out 9:27-1 mile back 5:30- bathroom/stretch break 8:35- last mile back these times are right but the over all time may be a bit off i did the math to add the running parts but my math i think might be off. | ||
| running warm up/down 3:00 [1] 0.1 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| very short warm down jog back to the school. about 3 blocks. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretching back at the school. | ||
| strength 9:00 [3] | |
| 50 skulls -> 30 sec break -> another 50 skulls -> 30 sec break -> 50 sit ups (could not do any more skulls they are so much harder!!) -> 30 sec break -> 25 really pathetic push ups. | ||
| Note | |
| hellish day at school!!!! too much work not enough time and super tired!!!! And i still have bio and history hw to finish and yes it is 12:15am so i guess really this should be on the 7th but talking about the 6th so yeah. | ||
Tuesday Mar 4 | ||
| dance (tango) 30:00 [1] | |
| Ballroom dancing after school today as Track we aren't allowed to start until thursday (official practice) apparently. So a nice easy ballroom session. Only had one guy though so um i have decided more guys should learn to dance lol. Legs hurt a little bit at the end from not stretching yet today and being bent for about a half hour straight. learning a lot though! and it is fun!!! | ||
| C • that sounds so fun! were t... 5 | ||
Monday Mar 3 | ||
| running 28:00 [2] 3.0 mi (9:20 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| So you would think if you have 3 track coaches that you would have at least one at practice. Well not today! one was at a track meeting to find out all the details of the races and such, one had engineering club, and the other forgot clothes/shoes so couldn't run with us and thought we weren't starting until next week anyway (even though we have been running mondays and fridays since about January) So the three of us that showed up went for a run together and kinda just picked where we each wanted to run to. I decided to run three miles, as i was feeling a bit sore from yesterday, didn't get a good night sleep and i had to babysit at 6pm. I still felt super slow and got a big cramp in my side.
14:48-out 4:44- to lloyd hall (.5 miles) 3:22- bathroom/waiting break 8:36- rest of the way back (1 mile) | ||
| C • coaches... 2 | ||
| walking warm up/down 3:30 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| walked three blocks back to school as a cool down.
Got to school and iced for 15mins. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
Sunday Mar 2 | ||
| running 53:56 [3] 5.25 mi (10:16 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| Went for a run up to the Kelly Statue again but with my dad this time. It was a nice day out. A little cold to start out though. Was nice to catch up with my dad since he was gone in NY most of the week. I FELT SUPER SLOW!!!! it was so sad :( i've got a lot of training ahead of me before this summer sadly. Track i believe starts tomorrow so that will be good.
27:10- out 16:35- back to lloyd hall 2:12- water break and let dad catch up (he went .75 miles further) 7:57- last mile to the train tracks. | ||
| walking warm up/down 4:30 [1] 0.1 mi (44:58 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| walk back to the house. No cramping this time though! muscles around my left knee felt tight though and so did my calves. | ||
| stretching warm up/down 11:30 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony | ||
| stretched outside the house. Felt good but i'm super tight!! and dehydrated. | ||