Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: ROC - Webster Park Icebreaker [2011 Series #1]
 

After Chelsea's race, I made it out for a run in the chilly, windy weather. The wind was coming off the Ocean, so I decided to do a very rare clockwise bridge circuit - the Science Museum loop - and I started it out with some protection from buildings, rather than along the river, like this.

There was a detour at the Science Museum and when I was waiting to cross back to the river side, a guy went by me. That's what I was hoping for - a target. The measured portions of the path consistently reported us to be in the 7:05-7:10 range (it was with the wind). He slowed just a bit after the Harvard Bridge, and I wanted to maintain the pace, so I did up to the Storrow ped bridge.

Finished my run at Steinbrenner Stadium, where the MIT Spring Invite was underway. I had caught a couple of events earlier and this time I tracked down Coach Taylor, to say hi. We were talking about Boston and my failure to register on time, and an official who was there mentioned to Halston that he has some exemptions available if alumni are ever in that predicament. Oh well.

C • There's a... 3

Event: US Interscholastic & US Intercollegiate Championships
 

Event: Boston Marathon
 

Used the lunch hour to try to download and print all of the tax forms that I need - new twist this year is Chelsea having to file in Massachusetts. I don't have a spreadsheet for that, yet.

Went from work to home to pack, then Chris and I went to Albany for the night, en route to Boston for Chelsea's crew weekend.

Running around during and after the JV track meet at Thomas. Ran out of time and had to get to Applebee's for the start of the Sabres playoff game (1-0 win!).

The Schroeder star of the meet was Zach! Well, not really - it was the 8th grader that ran 12.2 in the 100 without blocks, then high jumped 5'8" (despite standing only 5'5"!), but he is a Varsity triple jumper (possibly the best 8th grader in the country), so I don't know if he counts.

Zach ran the 1600, and I wanted to make sure he had a goal going into the race. After his 11:18 3200 on Tuesday, I was pretty sure he should be under 5:20, but I didn't have VDOT tables on me (it turns out 11:17 maps to 5:16), so we decided he should try to keep it just under 80 per lap, to break 5:20. He ended up running 75, 83, 75, 72 for a 5:05! Totally surprised me. He came back with a 2:21 in the 800, then anchored our 4x800 relay and caught Thomas for 2nd place, from way back.

C • It appears 4

Since I had already missed two days in a row, after I wasn't able to get out at lunchtime, time was getting short. I tried to leave work early, to run before golf, but stuff kept coming up. After golf, I had to get a run done but it was cold and wet, so Chris agreed to go to the Y with me, and I jumped on the treadmill.

1/2 mi w/up @ 7.0mph
up 0.1 mph every 0.1 mi. to 9.4 mph (did 8.2 for 0.2 by mistake), so last mile was 6:40.
1/4 mi recovery @ 6.6mph and less
Then ran at 6.6mph and upped the incline 0.5% every 30 sec, all the way from 1.5% to 9.5%
1/4 mi w/dn with a couple of strides

Increasing the speed slowly made me more uncomfortable from an aerobic standpoint, as expected. I could have kept increasing a bit longer, but it was getting tough. Increasing the incline, OTOH, did not bother me aerobically - I did not really get winded; however, I did get really heavy legs. I think at the end my heart rate was just about as high as during the speed increase though.

Climb added to the entry is just the climb during the climbing session - the usual 1% incline for the rest of the run was not included.

Consecutive days off. I got out of work just in time to get to the track meet, and it was too cold to be willing to change into running stuff after the meet and do the needful.

The meet was most excellent, though. Both the boys and girls meets came down to the last event - the 4 x 800m relay - and the distance squad came through for wins over our cross-town rivals from Webster Thomas. I'll have a write-up on the blog tomorrow.

Couldn't get out at lunch time, due to a problem with a vendor at work. That really sucked, because, despite the wind, it seemed to be a fantastic day to get away from the office for an hour - well into the 70s after all of the nasty days.

HVO Meet from the Lake Welch Beach parking area. It was the end of the Jr Training Camp that Zach and Luke attended.

Chose the Red course, so that Chris and the kids wouldn't have to wait too long, but this even ended up being too long. I banged my shins up early on the mountain laurel and then my lower legs took a whipping from the blueberries or whatever those bushes are. I was in shorts and this was the first orienteering event that I've done, where I was sorry that I don't own gaiters. Never found C7, which was at the end of a long 3m cliff, with another long cliff next to it. By then I was walking thru the blueberries as well as the mountain laurel, so not sure why I couldn't get things to line up. I must have been very close because C8 ended up being only a little right (and higher) than I expected.

Flicked off one tick during the race and Chris and I found 5 more when I got back. I had thought it was too early to worry about them, but obviously not.

HVO soaked me for the $10 non-member entry fee (plus another 25 cents for a map bag - probably a good "green" idea, but an annoyance when you don't know the policy) vs. the $3 it would cost an HVO member to run here. Guy did say that parents of the juniors were supposed to be $5, but I didn't identify myself that way. I really don't like the HVO "paper" punch cards - they didn't have safety pins, so I couldn't pin the card to my shirt (where it would have dissolved anyway) and stapled it inside the map bag, but it turned out I stapled it via the part that they rip off at the start line (a remote start so you could plan your course on the way there, but I just chatted with Zach instead), so it was loose in the bag instead, adding several seconds to each punch. They also did not provide pre-printed maps, so I was at my own peril in trying to interpret what I thought they circled - it didn't help that a) the guy next to me had a master map with a slightly different center for one control, and b) several clues did not specify which cliff or boulder was the correct feature.

All-in-all, makes me more pleased with how our meets are run these days (and with more improvements in the works!).

C • Paper punch cards? 12

C • 2011CCOF junior training camp without the camping... 4

C • Fees 2