2018 3:20 (and beyond) (Read 582 times)

Today was tough, but not all bad.

The short of it: legs felt okay, stomach was a mess, didn’t push mentally. Conditions were tough. Essentially a 13 mile hill workout.

1:28:13, 8th OA.

Ace - it's just impossible to run to your potential in those conditions.  IIRC, the course was hilly as well?  My theory is that hills and humidity compound - hills tempt you to overreach a bit on the uphill, and then you can't recover from that overreach because of the humidity.

Turning back to your question about why I did an up-tempo mile yesterday?  My last workout was on Tuesday, and I'm racing on Sunday.  For me, that's too long of a gap between fast running efforts, so we sneak in a mile uptempo two days before the race.  The point is not to develop fitness, but just to keep stuff primed without incurring fatigue.

5 miles very easy (8:51).  Gonna do some DIY yoga later today before hitting bed very early.  I have a 3:10 am train tomorrow morning to NYC (arrive at 6:40 am, my heat goes off at 9:10 am).

Edit: RLK - thanks for the tip about the timing clocks.  Since they have a separate heat for women 40-49, I do intend to start at the front.  But I'm most likely going to ignore the clocks anyway - they won't give me any useful information.

I’m in Sac.  I thought I’d be able to find a group run in the morning, but there seems to be a 10 miler that overrules all those things.  I mean, I’d love to do a 10 miler but it’s not happening this weekend.  So might just solo along the river.

i did find a flat road up where I’m staying which I didn’t think existed,  so I might get more runs in up there.

Also, talked too much trash about heat and elevation and got burned by possibly both on Monday.  The ridge was pretty exposed and I gattaca’d a bit too much and was just drained.  I sat under the shade of the only tree for about a mile in either direction for like 2 hours, even fell asleep for a while.  Then slowly made my way back over the next couple of hours (was 4-5 miles from where I’m staying).  I was out all day and really needed water and to cool down.  Don’t think I was totally back to normal until Friday, but I got through work ok.  Have done crazier stuff since getting here so I am a bit confused by it all.

Fleet feet says buffalo stampede all day on their calendar.

“the Buffalo Stampede ...is one of the five events the Buffalo Chips Running Club sponsors each year”

i mean, I appreciate the ideas, but there’s a nice website that lists all the running groups in town and I clicked on most (I figured moms on the run and bgr aren’t quite for me) and they don’t have Sunday runs or are preempted by this thing.  Which is also pretty cool that it exists.

DW cruised down 5th ave today in ~5:3x and looked smooth down the stretch.

Congrats!!!

Also, I'll be efficient and post my week from the train:

49 miles running, 18 "miles pool-running, and some other stuff.

M: upper body weights, core, and 9 "miles" of pool-running.

T: 10 miles.  2.5 warm-up (9:22), then 400/800/1200/1200/800/400 in 1:38, 3:04, 4:35, 4:29, 2:53, 83.  3 cool down (9:42). Also leg strengthwork and recovery swimming.

W:  7 miles very easy to yoga (9:27), yoga, and then 5 very easy (8:52) plus drill and strides.

Th: upper body weights, core, and 9 "miles" pool-running.

F: 9 miles, including one mile up-tempo (6:18) and light injury prevention work.

Sa: 5 miles very easy (8:48) and DIY yoga.

Su: 3.5 warm-up,  mile in 5:36, half mile jog back to gym.  Later, changed shoes and did 8 very easy (9:02)