Training Log Archive: AliC

Champoeg half marathon

Nice! Pretty exactly made goal of 6:30/mi pace for this. 1st woman, 2nd overall. Was ready to finish at the end, but wasn't a major suffer-fest, probably means pacing was ok.

A nice sunny morning for it, started just above freezing - I wore 3/4 tights, t-shirt, gloves and a earwarmer band. Arms started cold, but was ok after first 2.5 mi. The course was beautiful, along the Willamette river, mostly in the woods, but some in open meadows of the park at the beginning/end.

Most exciting part of the race was a 1.5-person wide bridge that had two-way race traffic over it. First three times I had no trouble, but my final crossing required shimmying past anti-parallel runners at 6:30mi/pace...

According to AP, I ran a 1:22 half in 2013 and a 1:23 in 2014, so still looking to approach those... but not too far off now. This course was also hillier than OH courses, but not terribly hilly.

C • Good run! 7

Hmmm. My Garmin tried to install an update and failed, so no Garmin for a score-O, kinda made things harder (brought a phone, but that was tricky to manoever in/out of pocket, plus take gloves off to activate screen to see the time.)

But anyways, wasn't going full-out because quite tired legs! Had fun running around *the same park* as the half marathon was in, but this time in the dark and off trail. Quite fun, haven't played night-o in awhile!

Distance is estimate, but sure I went at least 4 mi.

Ok, so Feb ended with 92.05 mi of running and 21:30 hours of training, which are both shy of my 100mi and 26h goals for the month. I blame illness though.


Rest day today b/c so much work.

Stroller jog to daycare, with the first three sets of 2 min, 3 min intervals. (Two of the sets were at least with the lighter stroller without Sylvia on the way back.)

Finishing up the intervals with a loop in the neighborhood.

A run, no intervals because was feeling like still coming out of the cold and past 2 days were more intense.

Baby pick up via bike again.

The plan for this week:

Feel like I'm healthy, at least for now, which is great! Will try to keep getting in a decent amount of sleep to stay that way. Feel like I need to start trending toward a little more high-intensity work, felt kinda without a higher gear at sprint camp. Think I should do a 3k time trial to see where I'm at. Maybe next weekend

Mon - 11 am: 2 x 10 min tempo, noon: Pilates
Tues - day care drop-off intervals
Wed - noon- Pilates
Thurs - day care drop-off: light hills
Fri - easy jog, circuits
Sat - AM: half marathon; PM: night-O
Sun - ski? depending on weather/energy....

Looks like I'll probably miss both the Feb. mileage goal by ~10 mi and hour goal by about 3-4h. But those are largely explained by illness and so whatever. Suppose a bit is explained by work grabbing intended training times, so will try to keep on alert for that too...

Oaks bottom loop in snow flurries! Pilates instructor called in sick, so didn't rush it. Got 2 x 10 min tempo in, but didn't push too hard, because do think I've got a bit more of the cold remnants to get over.

And Pilates-type stuff in the mat room afterwards. Charlotte hadn't heard that the instructor was sick, so we did core and chatted together for this, which made it way more fun!

Baby pickup via bike. Hard uphill with her in the trailer on the way home!