Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Run to NP. Fire alarm malfunctioned at 5:30. That was fun.

At least the Sportsball is over, so no more late nights.

High knees and such.

Running back and forth, and doing burpies. Goal was 300 in 35 minutes, which wasn't going to happen, but I wanted to get past 200. Got in 210. That's a lot. I might feel it tomorrow. Wet, but not too cold.

210 burpies

Run home, which was very slow and started with half a mile of walking.

JP Licks had a two-for-one deal because Red Sox. My sister was running home(ish, to the Orange Line) and it was perfect distance to run to Assembly with her, 4.5 for her, 3 for me. Then we got two large ice creams for $6 (Jeremy came and helped) and had no trouble polishing them off.

Got to see new Orange Line cars, too! (But not ride them, yet.)

Event: Harriman Orienteering Festival
 

Run over to where the bibs were.

So the Civil Engineering department was paying for entries in a 5k, and once I realized I wasn't going north this weekend (although Lincoln's ski photos from Tux yesterday looked amazing) I signed up. Enough sleep after a normal-length Sox game.

Apparently someone got sick, so I got their bib, and the CEE person looked at me and said "oh, if I'd known you were serious I'd have gotten your bib." Whatever, wasn't planning to die. Then got to the start and looked around. Not a lot of competition. Lots of costumes. Gabriel, who'd never run a 5k, might be the hardest competitor.

So we ran. 45˚ and misty. Made the first couple of corners, group of 5 quickly became 2: me and Gabriel. Followed CPD down Mass Ave (kind of fun) then turn on to Putnam. No one within 50m.

I wasn't sure of the course at at Brookline the cop stopped but seemed to be going straight, so I went straight. Non-race brain would have realized they wouldn't want to run the race the wrong way up Sidney and it turned here, or remembered the course from the map, or watching this course before. Race brain did not figure this out. So I had to make a very wide turn up on the sidewalk. So did the cop. Gabriel waited. I asked if he wanted to sprint or clasp hands in MST unity. He said sprint. Well shit.

Made the turn, saw the finish, went for it. So did he. I went ahead, but he surged. Not sure if anyone will be able to declare a winner. Good photo at the finish, but from the wrong angle.

A PR, by a couple of seconds, I think. And a W, or close to it.

And I think I got them to change my name in the results.

Over to NP for thrills. Cold, parked at the bottom and ran up. Apparently lots of burpies were included, so we ran hills and did burpies.

60-some-odd burpies.

I left my water bottle at NP when I was putting on all the clothes (realizing I need to dig out my long sleeve wool hoodies from storage for layers) and I didn't really want to run back over but wanted to take advantage of the lovely day, so biking it is! The wool ibex shorts (RIP Ibex :( ) are nice and warm, and it was in the upper 40s, so not too bad, but lobster glove weather. Out up Summit, then out Comm Ave. Lots of traffic near BC, and lots of cops: BC game. Got through that, and out Comm Ave, and at 128 I see a motorcade … here comes Miami. Cops stopped traffic but I snuck through.

Out through Weston, getting towards dark; I had lights but didn't really want to use them. Perhaps I should have gone up through Bedford to the rail trail, but dark and rush hour isn't great. Came back through Waltham, outpacing all the traffic, and on to the river for the last few miles home. Not a bad ride. Too bad the weekend looks so lousy.

Cool night, but really nice and breezy. Legs still a little DOMS-y. You can get DOMS from a half!

Apparently you can get DOMS from a half.

And maybe a cold, too? But I went to sleep before the end of the game (I'm old, and it's not 2004 anymore) and got up for some stairs. "Back to the future" day, so backtrack 1 section until 19, then 2. I would up backtracking 12, and finished with enough time for the extra section to get to 50. 37 in 31, 50 in 44. Little stairs down, legs not feeling bigs.