Training Log Archive: Sandy

Didn't weigh myself this morning - didn't want to know. Couldn't stop myself from snacking last night. Phooey.

I don't feel sick but I did feel very, very lethargic yesterday and not particularly peppy today.

Hiked pretty slowly at HR. It felt really cold when I got there so wore my heavy down jacket - but it was above freezing and I've gone in much lighter layers in those temps before and I didn't even break a sweat today. Again, don't feel at all sick, but it does seem odd. Hopefully I'm not going to get hit with something in the next couple of days.

Had a wonderful dinner with Dennis and Emily on the way home - went to a sushi place near them that was fantastic. It's Dennis' birthday - he's 25!

One more loop in the southeast corner.

And a loop in the north section.

Knees complaining today. Better take it easy.

Part of the core DVD. Fiddled around for 10 minutes while the netbook didn't want to play the file so didn't have time for the whole thing. Skipped ahead to the side planks and they seemed a little easier. I've been practicing and have figured out a better position so my shoulders don't hurt.

TNT - on the track with Ann and Dasha. Somehow managed to stop my watch so I'm not at all sure what I actually did for this workout. I jogged (very slowly - Ann was walking) a lap then did a 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 ladder, so ran hard for 100, recover for 100, ran hard for 200, recover for 200, etc. I was trying to take splits but must have hit the wrong button. Pooh.

It looks like the track garmin has the 3-4-3-2-1 plus cool down.

I'll add on 10 minutes for the warm-up and the the beginning of the intervals.

And a nice dinner afterwards with Clem, Tom, Dasha and Ann to celebrate lots of things: the new Briar Patch, Ann's job, my promotion, and more. Great fun.

So 14-15 minute miles is nothing great but I am feeling really incredibly good about the fact that we got around that loop twice - talking most of the time - except on the really steep uphills - without walking a step. Go us!!

C • Yes 1

Trail run with Sandy. Her training plan called for a 5 to 6 mile run with the last two miles at race pace. I suggested doing the short hill loop twice around instead of just slogging on the drive. The hills were hard but it was better for my knees than trying to go further on the flat drive so I appreciated her agreeing to my suggestion. And we maintained a very steady pace which I think met the spirit of the workout since we didn't slow down at all on the second loop.

I'm sticking to my two day rule on the weight. Should be down again tomorrow from last night's workout.

Couldn't get out of bed in time for a morning hike.

TNT - Interval workout with Sandy. It still remains fun to do the workouts prescribed by "the plan". Today was 3 to 4 of 800m at tempo, 400m recovery, then 3 of 100m fast, 100m recovery. We mucked up the first repeat so did 400m tempo, a little amazed that 800m didn't seem so bad and then realized what we had done. So probably did about 200m slow before figuring it out and picked it up to finish the 800. Then did two more 800's. Got the 100's fine. Did the same as last time - put one set of intervals on Sandy's watch and one set on mine.
112m 49s
112m 60s
112m 37s
112m 57s
112m 40s
112m 67s
(Had my watch set for miles and put in .07 which I figured was close to 100m.) Guess we weren't too consistent on these as not really sure how hard to push the fast ones.

It started raining shortly after we started but while I knew it was raining it didn't seem like a big deal at all. Guess we were into the workout.

Karl did his own thing.

Had amazing cream of mushroom soup afterwards.

And I just got official notification of my promotion. Woohoo - two for two!

C • yahoo! 8

Yoga class. Good class - lots of great stretching and strength moves.