Training Log Archive: coach

Run with Jude, her HR data.

WIth Jude, then on my own.
19 minutes at T pace.

Late for dinner at AlWadi with Jude, so had to jog the whole way, trying to keep cool and get there in time..........

Concert with Chris Smither at UMass-Boston . I had never heard Chris, and probably would not get any of his recordings, as I don't like blues/rock, but all of his songs and stories were very good, funny and entertaining.
We are trying to get to all of the concerts that our WUMB membership permits.

Skyline 1 route.
Wiped as usual, a long trail back, must keep doing this...

Three works from 3 centuries, Mozart, Beethoven and Shostakovich.

New fact - Beethoven premiered his Piano concerto #4 along with his 5th & 6th symphonies PLUS movements from his Mass in C and the Choral Fantasy, all on one bitterly cold night in an inadequately heated concert hall, on Dec. 22, 1808. Probably they were less than enthusiastically received...
The pianist tonight was a woman born in 1984 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and studied there until coming to NEC recently. To say she was marvelous would be an understatement...........
Shostakovich is, of course, one of my favorites(Russian, 20th century). I remember the premiere of the recording of his 15th symphony as I drove (1966 Dodge Dart GT, with Ford AMFM Stereo radio crammed under the dash, Ford made the best OE radios in those days)from NJ to Greenfield a Friday night in about 1972 listening to WQXR from NYC.
Tonight they played his 1st symphony, a quirky work by a then student at the Leningrad Conservatory (now and formerly, St. Petersberg Conservatory?)

One of the truly enjoyable parts of these concerts, besides our ability to hear great musicians and works, in a fabulous concert hall, for free, is the great realization that the world is not going to hell with a younger generation (our young orienteers an exception of course). Here is a whole stage of 20 year olds, many probably barely out of, or still teenagers, who have obviously worked really really hard, for many hours to perfect the pieces of music which they play every week.
It makes me have hope for the future, and is a testimony to what time and excellent coaching will result in.

Stop at JP Licks on the way home, Chocolate Chocolate Chip & Black Raspberry. Luscious as always.

C • dervish 1

Run to PO and onward.

Checking out the Turtle Pond map.
Found what I believe was a marijuana farm, rain barrels (very nice, would like to get them for myself), terraces, bag of peatmoss (which I liberated).

C • Protection 2

CSU, by Ian, re run of last fall's US champs Long courses at Pine Hill.
I chose to run the Red, since I wanted about a 2 hour run. I had run the 6km. Green at about an hour in competition, and wanted to keep my HR in the Easy to occasional Threshold range, so the 10K Red seemed about right, the 11+K Blue I could never do in 2 hours.
I took a weird route to 1, having trouble getting used to map reading and running again. Pretty sure I hit every control location, although I did "punch too early on one of them, but eventually went by the correct spot about 20sec. later.
Big error was on the long leg, 2/3 of the way through I was sure of wnere I was on where I was going, then boom, a trail intersection that was obviously completely wrong. I stopped and went over the route, there, there, there...where??
I was definately on a trail going NE, and I wanted SE, so headed in that general direction.
A bit of out and around, 10-15 minutes gone, and I was back on course.
Apparently, according to Giaccomo, a trail fork I thought I had gone right on, was very indistict, and I had taken the left fork.....if only I had checked my compass....heard that before, coming from me!
Well with the error I got my 2 hours in.