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Tuesday May 12, 2009 #
yoga 45:00 [1]
My right hand coped surprisingly well, even on the side planks.
trail running race 22:34 [4] 5.0 km (4:31 / km)
weight:135.5lbs
Northampton 5K XC. Generally good footing, a couple of decent hills. Been three years since I last ran this (it's a weekly race, every Tuesday evening from April to September), and as expected tonight's time was both a PW and (under 2009 rules) a PR.
Beautiful evening, perfect for running. Plan was to see if I could break 23, so quite pleased. Ran pretty hard. Probably could have run just a little harder, but I've lost a little of the sense of pacing I used to have -- always used to know just how hard I could push it and still make it to the finish line. So 3 or 4 times I backed off just a little to be on the safe side. But pulse was still in the 160s after I was done.
Splits: 7:18, 7:08, 7:26, 42.
My best time on the course way back when was about 18:30. So this is 25% slower. My orienteering seems to have slowed down a little more, but then things like agility and eyesight and memory -- the deterioration of all of them -- come into play there too. So this seems about right.
But of course I looked at the age records, and the record for age 64 is 21:33. It would be real nice to put in the work to see if I could get that, both for the challenge and also given the fact that the current record holder is a sex offender. Seriously. Would be nice to wipe his name off the list. But he won't last long anyway, there's a guy about 61 or 62 who lives in Brattleboro and sometimes shows up and can still break 19. (But he didn't show up tonight, so I got the over-60 prize, free entry pass to another of these races. Perfect.)
Beautiful evening, perfect for running. Plan was to see if I could break 23, so quite pleased. Ran pretty hard. Probably could have run just a little harder, but I've lost a little of the sense of pacing I used to have -- always used to know just how hard I could push it and still make it to the finish line. So 3 or 4 times I backed off just a little to be on the safe side. But pulse was still in the 160s after I was done.
Splits: 7:18, 7:08, 7:26, 42.
My best time on the course way back when was about 18:30. So this is 25% slower. My orienteering seems to have slowed down a little more, but then things like agility and eyesight and memory -- the deterioration of all of them -- come into play there too. So this seems about right.
But of course I looked at the age records, and the record for age 64 is 21:33. It would be real nice to put in the work to see if I could get that, both for the challenge and also given the fact that the current record holder is a sex offender. Seriously. Would be nice to wipe his name off the list. But he won't last long anyway, there's a guy about 61 or 62 who lives in Brattleboro and sometimes shows up and can still break 19. (But he didn't show up tonight, so I got the over-60 prize, free entry pass to another of these races. Perfect.)
trail running 8:00 [3] 1.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
Got held up by a traffic jam in Northampton (reasonably bad accident) so just time for the inner loop.