Training Log Archive: AliC

Met another girl emerging from her car at the same time as me, registration wasn't open yet, so went for a nice friendly warm up together.

Then ran into 2 faces from long ago- 1) David Whitcomb, dad of skiers I was good friends with as a kid, so looked up to the daughter, Kate who was a few years older and so cool and so fast compared to me! 2) Matt Fleischner, from those same ski days (there wasn't any skiing in Poughkeepsie, so my fam always traveled to W Mass to ski). He's now being a lawyer in Springfield. Cool!!

And tied 2 weeks ago, 2nd to a guy who pretty much took off from the start, no one else around. Think the improvements are going to be harder to come by now, although I was hoping switching to lighter shoes (the 212s) was going to help for a few seconds on this one. But I'm not sure they actually had that good traction on this course, there's so much loose stuff, it's as if the cleats just fall through the gravelly stuff, liked my normal trainers better I think...

Anyways, traded splits on the first 2 miles compared to last week, think that means I paced more sensibly since first mile is even and second one is downhill. Strange that this week I was only 13 minutes in L5 this week compared to 15.30 last week though, maybe more tired? I did do 2 sessions yesterday, 1 kinda hard...

Splits this week:
5.47, 5.42, 6.55
Previous:
5.42, 5.46, 6.56
5.51, 5.47, 6.56

C • Results 2

Warm down with Aaron Judge, a Civil Engineering PhD student who is apparently on the noon runners list, but doesn't come. Tried to convince him he should. He reported doing tons of intervals on a treadmill in the winter... did not sound like fun one bit.