Training Log Archive: arcticQn

lapppsss.... body felt pretty strong! nice.

Took the afternoon off to ensure that K takes the afternoon off and rests his damaged hamstring.
Instead, we went food shopping, which I just happen to love doing!

Felt SO GOOD again today. But aparently I was running too fast for my own good. messed up several controls, #2 by probably 5 mins and #7 by probably about 25mins, at least. It was terrible!! I wish I had a scanner to scan my route on the map so that i could show you were I went... I have NO IDEA how I got so far away... The woods were open for the first half of the leg but then it got all crappy...yet I kept going... what was I doing....?????
Even when I figured out where I was I kept starting to veer off to teh right and do the same eroneous loop again. *sigh. Finally got back on course and had a clean rest of my run...but...geesh. it was awful. but, hey, it's Pawtuckaway and things like that are bound to happen, .... .... right?
maybe it was the heel blisters...can I blame it on that?

C • no 8

Red Day 2 - Splits

Event: UNO Annual Camping Weekend
 

I don't have my watch with me today (monday) to fill in detailed info, so hopefully i'll do that tomorrow.
Felt SO GOOD to run through the woods...ahh, Pawtuckaway... !
No huge mistakes today, just a few bobbles and an iffy route choice made slower by some newly formed heel blisters distracting my brain and making me walk hills.
I decided not to do Blue because I haven't orienteered for awhile and was concerned about getting blisters and being stuck out in the boulder field for hours. Glad I did red!!

Easyish ride with K on the mtn bike trail that squiggles around through the woods in Pawtuckaway (not the doubletrack roads that head out towards South Mtn.) Felt really sloppy and awkward with all the rocks and roots being all wet and in the way.. Then about a 1/3 of the way through, K skidded off an extremely slippery wet bridge into a streambed and bent his derailluer hanger and messed it all up. He seems to be ok other than a banged up hamstring and a few fingers. It could have been so much worse!!! (I see all these horrific images going through my head when I think of it!) We made it through the rest of the trail without any issue other than K being frustrated having to be in such a high gear (otherwise the derailleur would hit his spokes!)

Red Day 1 - Splits

Did some 5x200m intervals this morning! Felt good tomove fast and have time go by so quick, but bad like my arms were dead and breathing was all rushed...like intervals shouldn't do that or something... unbelievable.
Pretty consistant times... 3.18, 3.14, 3.14, 3.14, 3.11 with 2' rest between.
definitely slower second 100m. Looking at the watch half way through i would range between 1.32 to 1.34 at the 100m, but then must have lost time 2nd 100m.

C • camping? 1

Easy run around the campground with K, mom and dad. Body felt good other than my stomach, who was not appreciating the chicken fingers it had for an afternoon snack. Mom and I cut the run short and went for a swim while the boys got lost in the dark.

stretching felt good! Planks and tricep strength work did not!!
;o)

Brisk walk with Loki down the rail trail by the gym while waiting for K to swim. Also felt good to stretch and shake out the quads, which my left one has been bugging me since saturday, off and on.

Got home too late to go for an outside ride, so we spinned, span, spun in instead.
Warmup, a few little things then 3 x 3min power intervals (2' rest), then cool down. burning quads! I didn't think that I'd be able to walk today (Friday), but legs feel ok! Tomorrow might be different..?

easy..my triceps still hurt.

Why, you ask? Oh, well, during the awards, they were doing a raffle type give-away for 4 certificates to go to Nationals. (still had to qualify, but free entry). 2 for the men, 2 for the women. Push-up contest!!! So, only 2 women were up there going for it, so K nudged me to go up and give them a run for their money. So I did and got my ass handed to me. 1.5mins to see how many push ups you could do...i did a whopping 35, the next girl did 39 and the other girl, who is jacked, by the way (the same girl that kicked my ass in the race) did 68. damn. i'm weak. and now, for th rest of the week, i pay for it!! hmph.

C • ha ha 1

Run to the end of the road and back. Started out running with K, but his easy and my easy are obviously not the same, even running downhill, so I let him go and sure enough, he took off. Fine. I ran my own pace, which, turns out, is the same as when i run with him, only it's much more relaxed KNOWING i CAN slow down if I want/need to!
The whole way out is downhill, then uphill on the way back. Shortish hills, with flats between. I pushed the hills and off the top, then settled in for teh short breaks between. Felt pretty good!! Ahh, improvement...