Training Log Archive: cmorse

Informal memorial 5K in Bolton - started in the old drive in - trails to rail trail, down past the Ray Crothers memorial bench, around a marked cone and back. Field of about 20 or so folks. Wasn't a serious race per se, but a number of folks running it hard - I decided to use it as a 5K benchmark and ran reasonably hard, but not full out. Finished first by almost a minute I think. Nice time...

Had planned to do some more mileage to get my monthly trail total up to goal - but doesn't look like its going to happen. Roads are at target, trails are close - bike and core are well below target, but I'm not as concerned about those - and overall quite happy with the month of February...

February Summary -

• Goals
  
• Road Miles = 40 (40.4 actual)
  
• Trail Miles = 120 (112.3) close, and more than last month
  
• Bike = 120 miles (47.5) not even close, but non-plussed about it
  
• Core = 7.5 hours (3:38) about half, but then I doubled the time from last month - perhaps too much
  

Need to determine some reasonable metrics for March - had to scratch the 50K I was originally going to do next weekend, bummed about that. Probably keep the road miles even, tweak the trail miles up slightly and add some faster outings - back off the bike ambitions. Not sure about core - I should do it daily and if I do, then the target is reasonable - I just didn't stick to it this month.

Still need some sort of long term goal event to shoot for as well - nothing at the moment, though Dakota Rogaine in May looks intriguing - not sure if that's realistically in the budget.

C • Dakota 7

Nice run w/ Jeff Woods & Dave Almand. Originally plan was to run moonlight course as a preview, then continue on for another 12-15 or so. But the three of us just decided to head N and skip the Moonlight portion. Wandered on various trails and dirt road (and a tad bit of off-trail when I overshot the Shenipsit Trail terminus) coming back up and over Bald Mountain.

Although I really would have liked to continue on for a few more hours, family committments meant that it was prudent to bail just a tad over 2 hours and leave Jeff to venture on alone.

May go up to the forest a bit earlier than 11:30 this evening and get some additional mileage in before the moonlight run. Bruce, Mark & Scott are planning on doing 4 hours or so as a warmup to the 3 mile Moonlight run so perhaps I'll run into them in the woods.

First time carrying bottles in the new pack - for the first hour or so I kept reaching back to make sure they were still there as I really could not feel them at all - no bounce, no nothing. Tough to extract on the move, but if I'm running with others its easy enough to ask them to do a bottle swap for me. I have the option of adding a bladder to the inside - but I think the bottle option plus carrying a filter will be sufficient.

easy run w/ Dave A. on snow covered dirt road before the moonlight run

Moonlight run - a dozen attendees including some new folks. Slow pace, generally without lights - some snow cover, other areas bare which were harder to see footing under variable moonlight. Bringing up the latter group to make sure everyone stayed on trail. Good time in the woods..

C • Great job ..... Good milage... 3

C • Dr. Agosto doesn't think it... 2

a zero, but I'm ok with it today as I've got a long group run lined up in the am plus the moonlight run tomorrow night.

only bummer is my Lupine is out of commission, going to have to resort to the Petzl backup light - but will hopefully be running w/o lights anyhow.

C • Hike, 13

Quick jaunt out the door to finish off the months road mileage goal (40 miles) since I didn't finish my hills on Tuesday. Muddy and raining, but felt surprisingly good considering I still feel 'sick' the rest of the time. Maybe I just need to run this crap out of my system.

10:19 outbound, 10:13 inbound

need to run more short, fast runs rather than all slower paced runs. Though I think I'll try to do the speed on trails.

too much blue (roads) and not enough green (trails) on my weekly graph right now. Need to remedy that. But at least my monthly road quota is filled, still got 30 miles of trails to reach that goal

5 minutes about all I could muster - still feel like crap...

Ran some Happy Trails before Happy Hills at 5am. North on the Shenipsit Trail for a bit, then turned around and came back - time and distance includes a bit of running dirt road with Mark between Trails and Hills.

Bummed when I got there and the Tesla wouldn't start up - I guess I need to recharge the battery - had the Petzl in the bag so ran with that, but its really not in the same league. Not very energetic (me, not the light...)

Happy Hills Tuesday w/ Bruce, Scott & Mark - only planned on running 3 repeats as I only need 7.5 miles of roads to finish my month. But feeling crappy right from the start. OK headed down the first one, but got spit out the back of the hill climbing machine real quick after turning around. Not actually all that bad - 19:54 on the first one, but the other guys were really cranking.

The second one I just started feeling chilled, sweating more heavily than usual, aches in my glutes and back of thighs and a real struggle getting back to the top (24:59). Decided to call it a day at 2 repeats instead of 3 or 4.

A couple hours later, showered and working in the office. The desk thermometer reads 82F and I've got the chills and feel like crap. I think I'll pack up some work and head home soon - not going to get much accomplished here today feeling like this...

C • in the pink 3

to/from Shafran on SLR

3 loops (13:32, 13:46, 12:44) plus in/out on wet, icy trails. Didn't wear spikes so the footing was difficult, short strides and hard to really push.

46F with increasing clouds though - so first shorts run of the year. Also first run with the new OMM pack. Not much in it, but felt very good, camera and GPS in waist belt very secure. Ipod bounced a bit in top pocket, but thats not a good place to put heavier loose objects anyway. Will need some tweaking and refining to dial it in - but so far me like...

- Splits