Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Trail run in Rock Creek Park after a long time away. Made a valiant attempt to take my right ankle and, by extension, my whole body out of the spring O season. Fortunately, my ankles are strong enough to survive my trying to destroy one of them on an absurdly safe section of packed dirt trail but I was walking gingerly the next day.

End of week fatigue - did nothing other than necessary cycling.

Commute - rested from training in the evening. Would have done so even if it wasn't a good idea for physical reasons as this was my night to see the Lyon Opera Ballet do an utterly delightfully meaningless evening length modern dance piece inspired by an Italian artist's catalogue of imaginary plants, animals and things in general.

Commute plus grocery shopping.

Warmup, cooldown and rest between intervals.

4 x 1100m I intervals. Watch was elusive so I can only assume I did them in about 4 minutes each with about 2 minutes rest between them - backed off on effort slightly compared to last time since I suspect that was harder than required for the desired training effect on VO2max and the muscular fallout of trying to cut time per repetition by a few seconds seems to be enough to compromise training for the next few days.

Muscles still feeling the weekend enough that I contented myself in the evening with restocking food, baking some bread and watching American Idol and 24. Probably a wise decision unless I don't do intervals on Wednesday, in which case it was yet another step onto a slippery slope.

NW wind gusting as high as 33mph. Direction from my home to my workplace = slightly north of northwest. A long hard ride in.