Training Log Archive: matzah ballIn the 31 days ending Oct 31, 2009:
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Friday Oct 30, 2009 #
biking 40:00
Partially shrotened cross route. Seemed to hit the crests rather than the troughs of the weather pattern, but bring it on! Look at it this way, I didn't have to pay $50 for an epic little ride.
Thursday Oct 29, 2009 #
yoga 20:00 [1]
running 26:45 [4]
low to mid 4 loop through a soggy Wilmore, ran as if to the turn around tree but then to the paved maintenance area, and then along gravel track to Walgreens, then back in park to crossing @ break in cemetery fence. Maybe 7:40 pace, but that includes warmup,waiting at Hampton to cross, pretty soggy conditions.
biking 15:00 [3]
easy ride to neighbors but w/ 5 hill repeats sandwiched in there
Wednesday Oct 28, 2009 #
biking 30:00 [2]
to scrabble - no get up even tho it was 'supposed' to be a training day
Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 #
biking (road tires) 55:00 [2]
to Borders in Brentwood for a 'writers meeting', drizzle and wet leaves and dark night made for slower riding at a higher spin
Monday Oct 26, 2009 #
yoga 10:00 [1]
woke up w/ a very stiff neck, so this was quite limited but has really helped. i would say it was not truly the exercise by itself that helped but the discipline of acknowledging helplessness, and seeking healing.
core work 10:00 [1]
the time i log for these activities has nothing to do with chronological time which is almost always more, but rather a measure of the completeness and the focus involved.
running 30:00 [1]
honeysuckle overgrown woods of resurrection cemetery. don't think I really need to do this one again for a long while.
running 30:00 [3]
then out on the roads and grass the rest of the way home. Low intensity 3.
biking 20:00 [2]
to meeting, found some legs & wanted to go more, but the wet leaves and drippiness dampened my enthusiasm.
Sunday Oct 25, 2009 #
biking (c) 1:10:00 [3]
to cyclocross race with trailer pulling race bike. Rolled the trailer twice, once there and once on way back. Have to find a way to protect thousands of dollars of bike parts better. First time, I lost it and screamed a cuss word. And this was after being on a retreat all weeekend. Lame. And my bag with my wallet came out, and I got to the race without it, had to unhitch my bike, race back to find the bag, and hustle back. Thought I'd miss the race but I even had 5 minutes to recover.
biking race (high 4/low 5 really) 55:00 [5]
Then 2 laps into the race I crashed coming out of a steep downhill and hit my forehead hard. Never give up though, right? - jumped back on and finished. In the B race now I count my finishes from the back rather from the front, I was fifth from last and happy with that!
biking 25:00 [2]
to retreat in the morning, and to friends house in the evening
Saturday Oct 24, 2009 #
biking 15:00 [2]
to group meeting at st. gabe's and back
Friday Oct 23, 2009 #
biking 1:50:00 [3]
to nursing home and printer and back, then w/ trailer to clients to drop off drawings, and a litltle further to whole foods in brentwood, back w/groceries.
Thursday Oct 22, 2009 #
yoga 15:00 [1]
core work 15:00 [1]
biking 10:00 [2]
grocery, bank
Wednesday Oct 21, 2009 #
biking 10:00 [2]
To neighbors house to return a book. A bike really extends ones concept of what is neighborly.
running (light pack) 47:21 [3]
To scrabble and back, thru cemeteries, christy park, carondolet park.
Thought I came back just as fast but it was 3 1/2 minutes slower. I guess picking my way thru gravestones in the dark slowed me down more than i thought. But my run there was 21:47, and my total was 47:21, so there was a numerical negative split of sorts.
Thought I came back just as fast but it was 3 1/2 minutes slower. I guess picking my way thru gravestones in the dark slowed me down more than i thought. But my run there was 21:47, and my total was 47:21, so there was a numerical negative split of sorts.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 #
yoga 15:00 [1]
core work 15:00 [1]
biking 1:30:00 [3]
high intensity 3 in easy gear to my fathers house to check on landscape drainage, and back, via Grants Trail. 90-100 cadence.
Everybody's doin the Cay-dance, everybodys doing the Cay dance, c'mon do the Cay dance w/ me
Everybody's doin the Cay-dance, everybodys doing the Cay dance, c'mon do the Cay dance w/ me
biking 40:00 [2]
up to nursing home for service for all those who have died in the last 6 months. wanted to run, but not all the way there and back. hard to get that running in.
Monday Oct 19, 2009 #
biking (road tires) 50:00 [2]
to nursing home, then to printer.
biking 15:00 [2]
to 'social justice' group
Sunday Oct 18, 2009 #
biking race (cyclocross race) 1:45:00
Faust Park cyclocross races. First time I ever did the C and then the B race. In a way I felt better in the B, since i had no expectations. So I felt I could help people, or if they passed me that was ok too. Just finishing was sweet, and I wasn't even dead last as I had fully expected to be.
Saturday Oct 17, 2009 #
yoga 25:00 [1]
biking 20:00 [2]
over to Cross Ricks house to drive to watch night race.
Friday Oct 16, 2009 #
biking (road tires) 35:00 [2]
nursing home, direct road route.
running 15:30 [3]
easy low 3 run from friends thru wilmore back home.
2 minutes slower than my tempo double the other day, so i think i'm getting the intensities down right.
2 minutes slower than my tempo double the other day, so i think i'm getting the intensities down right.
Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 #
running tempo 27:00 [4]
to neighbors to work on ornamental iron fence. then back. 2 x 13:30, thru park, soggy grass. about 3k.
biking 1:50:00
to meeting at Lafayette Square, then scrabble. tired, just grinding out the cold grey miles at a snails pace.
Tuesday Oct 13, 2009 #
yoga 15:00 [1]
core work 15:00 [1]
biking warm up/down 15:00 [2]
to garden and food pantry. legs felt stronger, went into near sprint mode several times on way back.
biking tempo (cross bike course) 55:00
quick up and down, over to wilmore, tempo ride building from mid 3 intensity to mid to high 4 with flavors of vanilla, leather and aftertones of blackberry. Wanted it to be all 4 but feeling a little sluggish in this cloudy weather. At the spinervals at the end I felt like I was riding a square wooden wheel. Need to pay more attention to my mechanics, but it doesn't help that the clunky hips that make me relatively durable are the same time not so efficient at high speed.
wore a t-shirt and a medium wt. long rei base layer over that - that seemed to be pretty good at 45 deg.
wore a t-shirt and a medium wt. long rei base layer over that - that seemed to be pretty good at 45 deg.
Monday Oct 12, 2009 #
biking 40:00 [2]
nursing home and shopping
biking 15:00 [3]
'social justice' group at St. Gabe's
Saturday Oct 10, 2009 #
biking 2:00:00 [2]
to bus line, and to queeny park, some course patrol, control pickup and then ride to fathers house.
running 20:00 [2]
control set up
Friday Oct 9, 2009 #
yoga 15:00 [1]
biking intervals (cross bike route) 40:00 [4]
2 x 20 min. tempo intervals - to nursing home and back in coldish rain. Feels like cross racing!
biking 45:00 [3]
put on road wheels and went to kinko's for maps. A 'hard level 3'. Great temperature for riding but the roads are slick.
biking 10:00 [2]
movie at friends
Wednesday Oct 7, 2009 #
biking 1:30:00
to meeting in near Ladue, w/ trailer, then to whole foods
running tempo 23:30
to wilmore and back, focusing on not whining, just breathing
Tuesday Oct 6, 2009 #
yoga 15:00 [1]
biking 40:00
up to funeral service for friend's dad at Laclede Groves
Monday Oct 5, 2009 #
biking 40:00 [2]
to nursing home, shopping. legs are dead.
biking 20:00 [2]
st. gabe's 'social justice' group
Sunday Oct 4, 2009 #
biking 1:50:00
to manchester bus, from manchester to queeny. then after run, back via my fathers house (not home) and Gnat's Tail, i mean grants trail...miles of zillions of little gnats
orienteering 56:00
warmup, then pre ran course, but got ditracted by mapping issues so did not go all out. Then jogged and walked the problem areas to confirm my reactions during the run, everything was pretty much as I had thought.
Saturday Oct 3, 2009 #
biking 20:00 [2]
wilmore park to gather more walnuts, focusing on the larger ones this time, and to hardware store for chicken wire for drying racks.
Note
climate change - going into hibernation
biking 10:00 [2]
friends house
Friday Oct 2, 2009 #
yoga 20:00 [1]
core work 20:00 [1]
biking 50:00
garden, nursing, big river running
biking 15:00 [2]
missed my ride to Queeny and didn't have it to ride out there, but did muster the energy to pull the trailer to Wilmore, and load up really quickly w/ mass quantities of walnuts. I know its going to be a lot harder to husk, crack and shell them than it was gathering them.
C • pie 6
Thursday Oct 1, 2009 #
Note
legs sore, weather sleepy - looks like a rest day except for some errands I will spin out.
biking 20:00 [2]
parish office and office depot.