Training Log Archive: bishop22

Track practice (distance runners only) with poor Saturday turnout once again (just Nate, Alex and Bobby). I noticed that Thomas had an enormous turnout of boys and girls. Not sure why our practice isn't mandatory.

Ran from Thomas to the bike path and headed east. No way I could stay with Nate and Alex, while they ran easy, with my lingering illness. And Bobby is a little too slow, so I was on my own until Nate and Alex turned around a bit early and got back to me at 26:30, just before Phillips. I ran with them a bit, then fell behind, but passed them on the road crossing at 250, and held them off for a bit. Took the Hard-Publishers shortcut and got back just before them.

Finally made it back out for a lunchtime run. Chased Scott around Main-Culver-Monroe (like this). Kept up at 7:30 pace out Main, but I was done, thanks to the remnants of my illness (I think those were some chunks of my lung that I hacked up and spit out). Then I let Scott move ahead while I backed off to about 7:50 pace and felt somewhat better (although I did still send some debris flying on occasion).

I hope I feel a whole lot better a week from now; I was hoping for a reasonable score (600?) on the WRE course.

Estimate of time spent jogging around at track practice, since I wasn't up for doing the workout. Had 3 teams of 2 for a ladder relay (1200, 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200). The boys did a very nice job. Nico ran 3:11 on the 1000, to catch Nate and Alex, who had an 18-second lead.

Easy gerbil run at Bayview at 9pm.
1/4 @ 7.0 mph
1/4 7.0-7.5
1 @ 7.5
1 @ 7.6-8.5
1/2 @ 8.5-7.5

18 min Random Hills-13 @ 83rpm

Couldn't keep the rpms up, even though the HR didn't get that high. I assume being sick had an effect.

Had to call in sick for the first time since a sinus infection in 1993 or earlier. Fever was 102.2, even after taking vitamin I in the afternoon. Apparently, 13 hours of sleep was not enough, as I passed out for another 100 minutes in the late morning.

Track practice inside at Schroeder. Did a 10 min w/up, then started the Rep workout with the kids. I did the first 600 in 2:17, but it felt a lot harder than that. I had to call it quits after 450m on the 2nd one (the kids did 4x600, 3x300) - it was clear that there was something wrong, involving some muscle aches, so I figured I was a bit sick. The diagnosis was confirmed when I tossed the proverbial cookies when I got home to take Z to soccer.

I never opened my calendar today, so I ended up forgetting about my hockey session, until it was too late. Too bad - I'm guessing I would've gotten a lot of ice time. There are only 3 weeks left, and I may be coming back to town too late each time (a Zach hockey tourney in Buffalo, then the Flying Pig, then the Billygoat).

And this was after being too full from brunch to be able to head to Ellison Park with Brigid - I gave her an old map and a compass to play with.