Training Log Archive: W

Managed to at least get out for a short run on what ended up being a fairly lazy Sunday, not my preferred situation. The road I was running on in basically a skating rink, I had hoped it maybe had melted, but.... no. Definitely not. No melting there, at least. Should have woken up earlier and gotten in a bit more distance, though. That would have been nice. I seem to not be moving very quickly [in life] anymore!

Jogged over to the university for the last winter sprint series on the campus. Just like at home, I was really lazy because I know the campus pretty well now. Tried to run fast and get my heart rate up, but it didn't really happen very well and my navigation was falling behind my speed. I wish I had a sprint camp in the middle of February to get my back in my groove. Oh well, JK is in only 2 weeks, time to snap back into it!!

Whatever "it" is.

Evening shakeout run that was, apparently, also molasses. Also, looking at the GPS from the Polar, its not flawless. I have a long straight run for about a KM before getting home, and the lines are pretty distinctly different. Not good, Polar. Tsk Tsk.

Got out and did at least some of the workout I had planned to do yesterday, today, while trying not to look at the solar eclipse. Crazy sunny out, so awful tempting to just turn and look, but it was really bright out and I'd prefer not to, you know, go blind.

I've got to think that would put a major dent in my orienteering career. Or not. /SELFBURN!

The downside to the great Tuesday workout was that my feet were pretty unhappy all of Wednesday. But, Thursday, I donned my Hokas to pillow my way around the lake. Partway along, I ran into the boys, and ended up going for a trail run instead.

I challenge anyone to go down the hill I went down, with the ice, and mud, rocks, at the speed I did, in road Hokas. I think that's the closest I've ever been to risking life and limb while running. Wow.

Anyway, a fairly slow run, but got a little tour of some trails I hadn't been on before.

Well, I wasn't going to be able to go to the track today, but Juha was in town so we decided to go out and do basically my tempo route again. Which was great! Juha is around a 31 minute 10k guy when he's not injured, so doing a tempo run with him was tough, but really good. We started at around 4:00/k, then slowly ramped it up to 3:50, then around 3:40 for the last 3k. So, did cruised 12.5k in 48, with an occasional headwind.

I often wonder if a tempo run is more productive when they are progressive like this, rather than a consistent pace. Is it better to do one where you do the whole thing at 3:55 pace, or better to start at 4:00 and slowly speed up?

Probably not better or worse, just different.

But the question is, which one is better? [sic]

Went for a nice evening ski in the spring conditions, which rapidly became pretty damn cold spring conditions. On the way out to the end, I ran into the boys, who organized a ski on the club Whatsapp group, which I continue to still not get invited too. Sure, its all in Finnish, but.... well, I can't think of a but.

I WANNA BE PART OF THE COOL KIDS!