Training Log Archive: bl

Run fm North Ferry dock to South ferry on Shelter Island. Imperial green day, manicured this & that, views of water, can sense the money fm the other end of the island. Kept in sight of some 25 overweight kids on bikes also headed to the ferry. Some may have found that a bit disquieting.
Shelter Island

Got out of car & ran rest of way to Longbeach La by beach in Noyac.

Noon get-together w/ Diane fm Garry's p dropping off Saab. Tired legs as well as an achy area Rt outside calf - a bit of protest from yesterday's pounding.

Home fm NHH. Slept just fine after a tyl pm last night. Decent energy, no yawning. Never tired/oob, just didn't want to run any faster. around 70F, felt warm in sun but plenty of shade.

Waning days of 'the green machine' ('92) sans current registration as well as inspection sticker; dogs will miss it, so will I...

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SPS warmup, 3 by 400.

Noon at St. Paul's. Poor night's sleep...0151, looked at watch, 0218
stopped playig possum & read for 45', back to possum until first light,
then maybe some sordid brief dreaming. Whimpy attitude punctuated by yawning but went to track for 2 metric miles & pleased myself: 6:50, 6:44. Saw Peter Romanello. NIce June day.

After some boat work, around 6:30, mellow hour. Needed a few more miles beyond some 4.4k fm noon. Around the bog.

Perfect June noon 'round the block with Diane. Legs felt good, even recovered.

Went to BHS with idea of 2 sub-7 (nothing like track for honesty) metric miles but too much lacrosse activity so came home w/ Nottingcook loop in mind instead. Picked up 2 happy dogs. At least did not have to deal with sun & blk surface...shady woods instead.
One warmup, one moderately ernest. Needed to get home to work on boat, dogs kaput as well. Need to HTFU them dogs.

Second. Ran by some guys shooting bullets into dirt....Went to OCAD for dist.

Noon SloGo on my own. Little Pond Rd, new area to poke around, nr quarries. Some phone line cart tracks bordered by granite 'gardens' fm quarrying. One nice view fm air traffic instrumentation. Legs flat as would be expected.

Summer arrival; early sun in Allegheny, 6/08...

Pack Monadnock 10 mile RR, Wilton to top of PM Mt, 2000' vertical over the distance. Perfect weather: 60's, minimal sun. First non5k RR in yrs. Can't remember when I last ran 10mi, race or not. Diane, Brian, Sin & Laurie there. Guess I could call it fun...nothing hurt, never really out of breath, non-threshold indeed. Think earlier miles should have been 5% faster. Miles just kept coming, then 2 left. The last was indeed up. Very pretty course for the most part, a bunch of stuff to look at. In part, was chasing a 57 y/o PG who was always ahead...I could even tell what he was going to run the miles just begun. Got behind, only caught up to his pace in last mile. Started too slow, even the 10" to get over line & then some indecision as to what pace to run at. Kept next to Sin for maybe 3 mi (Diane's 53y/o club runner friend - 21:00 5k, won the 50+ 50k in Gloucester, ME, o meet site '04, last wk; runs 6:10 mi on the UNH track in summer). But got ahead of her, then not much consistent company. Sin caught up to me again at 7.2 mi but I was feeling ok & got ahead for good. Might try again next yr. 4th or 5th veteran. Beth & dogs came along for ride/car ferry. Earned a few Alleve.

BL 97:07 (official)
Sin 98:08
Brian 99:14
Diane 100:42...a minute-by-minute lineup

Splits:
mi 1 - 9:15 under 9'/mi is rolling terrain
mi 2 - 8:31
mi 3 - 8:12
mi 4 - 9:11
mi 5 - 8:33
mi 6 - 9:41
mi 7 - 8:47
mi 8 - 9:45
mi 9 - 10:59 ... up 101 to notch & bit up mt
mi 10 - 13:58 ... walk/jog as able


Race course

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