Training Log Archive: bbrooke

A lot of people in the running group will be doing the Bolder Boulder race on Monday, so today's assignment was just an easy four-mile run.

I had a serious brain-fart and showed up at 4:45 instead of 5:45. I thought I had missed the group, so I went to a different trailhead and did three miles on my own. Afterwards, I saw the group as I was driving away, and it finally dawned on me that I was off by an hour. DUH!

C • Time Confusion 3

- Walked to the arboretum to warm up.

- Five sets of the arboretum lollipop loop. Each loop has three segments (0.21, 0.28, 0.21), and we alternated from slow to fast every time we changed segments. Paces were:

   11:16 / 9:43 / 11:50
   8:01 / 12:13 / 8:12
   12:09 / 8:13 / 15:21
   7:56 / 13:44 / 8:02
   13:14 / 7:35 / 12:56

- Slow jog around the arboretum super-loop to cool down, and then some extra jogging to get to five miles.

Event: Colfax Marathon
 

Perfect weather, and a pleasant course (it wasn't bad at all for a ROAD run -- I got to run through Mile High stadium and along the Platte and Cherry Creek rivers).

After over-planning everything for the past few weeks as team captain, I totally blew the relay hand-off. I was dawdling around at the back of my corral when my leg #4 runner arrived 20 minutes early (so I wasn't even looking for her). She said she had been there for about three minutes, but later said it was maybe only one minute. We weren't in contention to win anything, but it made me feel like a flake!

I'm semi-satisfied with my time. I would have been happier to be under one hour. But, as usual, my mindset during the race was more like "I just hope I can finish" rather than "lay the hammer down and go as fast as possible".

Very fun overall.

Easy neighborhood jog before tomorrow's race (west to arboretum and then east to Warembourg open space). I walked a bit, jogged two miles, and then walked the final part back home.

C • Good luck tomorrow! 2