Training Log Archive: ebone

Event: OCIN 25th Anniversary / Flying Pig XIII / Relay Champs
 

I went for a short warm-up run before the middle distance race at the Flying Pig.

Flying Pig middle race at McFarlan Woods. I had a solid run, with just a few small mistakes. I felt good, and pushed a bit but not too hard. I ran up all the hills.

Friday Middle Blue - Splits

I'm traveling to the Flying Pig today. I slept 3 and 1 hours, respectively on my two flights, and I got a 1-hour nap in CMH airport while waiting for the others.

Event: BEAST Race #1
 

I went for a run to pick up some checkpoint streamers after the BEAST race. It rained the whole time but wasn't too cold. I wore an extra lightweight wicking shirt as insurance against the wind, and I was quite comfortable. It was blowing pretty hard in the Highlands, and the small rain droplets were blowing sideways. My legs felt pretty good, and I ran fairly briskly, pushing some on a couple of the climbs (approaching threshold pace) and doing 4 x 50 fast strides in 29-31 sec, two somewhat uphill, one mostly flat and one gently downhill.

I meant to run today, but I have tons to do and didn't get out.

My usual Monday off.

I ran and did some Street Scramble course scouting along the way. My legs felt somewhat tired from yesterday, but not acutely so, and I had no sorenesses.

I forgot to stop my watch once when I stopped, so I think about 7 of the 70 minutes are extra. The distance/pace are a guess.

I took a nap after I got home from course scouting, then I woke up at 10:08, realized what time it was, and jumped out of bed to get ready for my 3000m race at 11am, for which I had to drive to King's High School.

Fortunately, the race started three minutes late, so I had time for a decent warm-up, especially given that I had been biking and trekking all night, so I was sort of warmed up already.

I ran the 3000m at the Spring Break Open track meet. I figured I ought to be able to run a decent time, since my legs are fresh from my brief Spring training break. On the other hand, I'm not in biking shape, and biking and trekking all night long was probably a bit fatiguing, even though it was low intensity. I figure that up to two hours of low-intensity training just makes a good warm-up, but I did about four hours, my calves felt tired from trekking in my biking shoes, and my legs had been crampy while I slept, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I gave 9:45 as my seed time, but I thought that anything from sub-9:30 to 10:00+ was a possibility.

My plan was to go out in about 77-78, settle in to 78 second laps, then pick it up if I felt good after a mile. The race went out really fast. Some very small boy bolted off the line and ran maybe a 70 second first lap behind several other runners, before fading badly shortly thereafter. I realized after the 200m mark (35 seconds) what was happening, and I toned it down, but the damage was done. I ended up dying sort of hard with a couple of laps to go. Fortunately, John O'Hearn passed me, which gave me the extra push I needed to kick it in. I passed him back and ran a sub 74 last lap.

Lap times and avg/max heart rates:
73.7 135/165
78.1 165/169
77.9 168/169
79.9 168/169 = 5:09.6 1600m
79.1 169/170
80.9 169/171
41.4 168/169
38.2 168/170
35.5 171/172 = 9:44.7 3000m

Warm-down jog after the 3000m race.

It was nice to see jroach at the start line of the 3k. He threw down a 9:02--sweet!