Training Log Archive: iansmith

A hike up Upper Rattlesnake Mountain with elements of my undergrad dorm on our annual New Hampshire camping trip. I brought up the rear, helping the kids who weren't really ready for such a hike along. The hike wasn't as long, hard, or fast as I would have preferred - Franconia notch would have been preferrable - but it wasn't totally trivial. The time and distance are estimates.

I recently saw the movie "Miracle" for the first time; I would greatly appreciate having an orienteering coach as demanding as Herb Brooks was of the US hockey team. I'm not adequately diligent to demand that much of myself alone (though I would very much like to try). "Again!" etc.

CSU track training, put on by Alexei. The exercise consisted of 800 on, 400 off with the added component that during the last 200m of the 800, you had to look at a map and observe the elevation profile of a leg and definitively state whether control (n+1) was higher or lower than control n.

I should have warmed up, but I started on the 800s directly. My legs were:

1st 800: 3:34 1st 400: 2:18
2nd 800: 3:09 2nd 400: 216
3rd 800: 2:59 3rd 400: 2:43
4th 800: 2:52 4th 400: 3:01

My pace on the 800s was monotonically decreasing, which was my goal, but I didn't have a good sense for how hard I should push at the beginning. I need to do a time trial for a mile and some other measures to come up with an appropriate vdot.

I ran 2x100 m strides, completing a 400 at a slow pace each time, and then stretched a bit.