Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Janji run. Garmin would not wake up; had to power cycle it at the mural we ran to under 93, so grabbed someone else's track for the full workout. Lindsay and I said we'd seen the map enough to know where to go (they didn't print maps today) and this was mostly true, although at first we tried to run people through traffic at Sullivan Square. But then we remembered a jog back and forth to Inman, for the right distance.

Felt mostly fine out running 7:30s or a bit better. Hey, last year I ran a 50k 8 days before my spring marathon and PRed!

I proceeded to run 5.6 miles the next 6 days. I should probably try that this week.

Feeling super sluggish at NP. Perhaps it was the cold, or the cold legs from Wednesday. After 35 minutes called it.

Dry clothes, but still got very cold on the way home, as it was in the 20s. Could have used a few more layers.

After deciding intervals in 35˚ rain was probably bad for my health, I did stairs in 40˚ fog. Workout was a half VM, or a vertical 800, 57 sections. I went hard but not sprint hard, big steps down mostly, keeping in L3 most of the way with a couple of short recoveries. Felt good, finished 50 sections in about 37 minutes which is close to a PR, then finished 57 in under 42, so one minute per half stadium under the VM pace.

Off to November Project! We were supposed to wear orange, so I ran around looking for orange clothing (orange NP wifebeater not found, but lots of other orange clothes) and was running late, so I ran.

20 minutes out of bed, I can manage a 7 minute mile and my heart rate would not go above 140, or it was way too early to push it any harder. L3 comes later in the day, I guess, but if I can run that pace at L2 maybe I can run the marathon at L2?

(A little running around once there slowed it down)

Some very silly NP indeed, and NP I am going to feel in the morning.

And then 7 minutes of burpies, but I was chatting with (/being chatted at by) Diana and lost count, but not too many.

Ran home, the first bit with Maya Fe, who kept me company as there was no one going to Cambridge. I could have taken the T but have to get my miles in!

Hey Alex do you like skiing? Do you want to go to Dublin on Monday afternoon? You do? Great!

And so the adventure begins.

Took longer than planned at school and wound up sprinting down Magazine to catch the 91, barely, over to Sullivan. Ran across traffic, jumped in the Alexmobile, and we were off to 93 at 2:02, and rolled in to Dublin 1:35 later. I'd forgotten my gloves.

This was good. Except the gloves.

The skiing was pretty good, too, for April. Not 10" of snow on the Birkie Trail good, but we can't all be so lucky.

We found a groomer track and followed it. Some of the trails had been groomed and were better. There were definitely some bare spots, including one we had to jump, and some of the trails were grass. But enough continuous cover to be very nice. Pretty fast, too, especially once the sun went a bit lower.

After 45 minutes Alex announced she was skiing intervals and that I shouldn't because marathon. So I grabbed a drink of water and then followed her down the trail over the bit of grass to jump. I planted my poles, jumped, and stuck my skis enough on the grass that the skis stopped. I didn't. I faceplanted in to the snow/ice, bopped my noggin, and started bleeding out my lip. Luckily there was a lot of snow to stanch the bleeding and after spitting some blood on the trail I got up and carried on.

Of course, now my fingers were a bit bruised and my hands were cold, so some no poles with socks on to get the hands warm (yes, extra socks, no gloves) and found Alex to explain my predicament.

She wasn't doing intervals because she couldn't get her HR up, or something, and so we skied around for a while longer and retired after 2 blissful hours of skiing (except, of course, for the falling part) and headed back, talking of more afternoon adventures to come. #gradschoollife #adulting