Training Log Archive: A.Child

Event: Hudson Highlander XVII
 

8x1min off 1 min

Event: NEOC: Powissett Night-O
 

So control 3 was really really bad. lost 8 minutes there. I followed a slope around and so I wasn't sure which hillside i was on, and i guessed wrong. Took me a long time to recover. This wouldn't have been an issue in the daytime (for the record). 4 was slow because I thought I was staring at a bear. there were two eyes that were close to bear eye width apart. It was looking right at me, then it got taller. I was kinda freaked out so for the next few minutes I kinda looked everywhere expecting to get mauled. I never did, though, and I'm now pretty sure it was a deer. Anyway, got 4. my route wasn't bad it was just being afraid of dying that cost me time. 5 was bad too. route was good for the most part but I mucked up near the end, and kept checking for bears. 6 woulda been a lot better if the trails I was looking for were actually trails and not stone walls. Not a big problem, just ended up going a bit more around. Once I left 6, though, everything started clicking, and I flew through the rest of the course with almost no problems!

C • It's good training 3

Long - Splits

10min @ 70%, 80%, 90%. Was supposed to do 6.20, 6.10, 6.00, but ended up doing 6:37, 6:25, 6:40. This was exhausting and I'm kinda bummed I wasn't able to do it. and by kinda i mean really.

C • are those mile paces? 2

Was supposed to run for an hour, but my knee was being a bit bothersome. In the beginning, I thought it was just from soreness, but after 20 minutes and I could still feel it, I decided to take it easy and cut the run short. Hopefully it'll get better over the night and I'll be able to run the full 100 minutes tomorrow. I did a few squats to check the stability in my knee and everything seemed fine (phew!) so hopefully my IT band isn't mad at me again.

Squats, testing knee.

bad workout. Really slow. 12x400@75-78 w/ 1min rest

Splits:
81
81
80
76
80
83
82
86
---3 min rest---
82
86
85
80

that puts my +/- at +46s...

I was pushing hard, too. I suppose I could have been intimidated or just ran slower because when I calculated my pace i came up with 6min/mile instead of 5, but i'm pretty sure I'm just not that fast.

C • try running a warm-up interval 4

it's starting to feel strange not running...