August 19, 2000
training
8/19 Locale: The Kitty Tour
Minutes: 39
Mileage: 2.0
Total
mileage: 109.09
Whoa! The pavement kicked my butt!!
Since I had done so
well the past couple of sessions in doing 2/2 cycles, I decided that that's what
I'd try here at home this afternoon, the weather being so nice. I went out armed
with my trusty sportswatch and a really good attitude.
The first ten minute
warmup felt a little harder than usual, but I assumed I was walking faster than
usual, and didn't think on it again until the ten-minute mark, when I started
my two-minute watch intervals. I didn't make it but through one minute of running
before I had to stop and walk. Angered, I walked for three minutes, then when
the watch beeped, I started to run again. And again I only managed to walk for
one minute before I had to stop and walk. I resigned myself to doing 1/3 cycles
for twenty minutes, because there was no way I'd make it running for two. On each
cycle I had to stop and walk after only a minute.
Why was I having such trouble?
Why was I jogging painfully slow?
Uh, maybe because unlike the treadmill, the
pavement doesn't move backwards to encourage my movement forward?
Something
else occurred to me, too. If switching to pavement after a couple of months of
easy training feels like this, there's no way I'm going to be able to train exclusively
in the gym once it starts getting cold. Because I'll get to Orlando and the Disney
pavement is going to kick my butt!!
posted by Adrith 3:40
PM
Training Walk for 8/17
(thurs)
- Focus: Intervals for 60 min
- Duration: 60 min
- Where:
gym
- Distance: 3.5? 4?
Last night Paul got stuck at work late,
so no gym for me. Today he had to go to work, so I dropped him off and went to
my other gym. Thank god -- AC!!!! I was so thankful my other gym had it's AC working,
and not only working, but on to make the entire gym a decent temp.
It showed
in my attitude because I was far less miserable and much better tempered. Did
the intervals on the other kind of cross trainer and it went pretty well other
than it doesn't tell me miles. Did the major weights for arms, but skipped the
ones for legs because they were too pooped from cardio. Tomorrow I plan to do
Sat. and Sun. sessions back to back, and just skip Fri.'s casual walk thing this
week. One more week exclusively on cross trainers, and then I have to start working
treadmilling back in, and sidewalk. I hope my ankle can take the pounding now!
I
went by a used bookstore afterwards and picked up Marathon! by Jeff Galloway.
It looks pretty good.
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 11:35
PM
August 18, 2000
It
has been a real crappy few days. But I'm glad to say that things are starting
to get back to normal again. The short version: I started eating again on Wednesday
and have managed to do two runs since that time. The bad part of that is that
I am once again back up to 240 - but so be it. I need food and water to train
on, and that's that.
The exposition:
training 8/17
Locale: PF
Minutes: 40
Mileage: 2.04
Total mileage: 107.09
This workout, though
very hard, was much better. I had a pretty good eating day yesterday, so my body
actually had something to run on. That's important!
Al Gore's acceptance speech
also made good entertainment while on the treadmill. It was my first, last, and
only time watching tv while training -- unless, of course, I decide to watch the
election coverage while putting in my four miles on November 7th.
I did three
two-minute running spikes, at the ten, fourteen, and eighteen minute marks. At
the end of the third, I had a moderate case of shinsplints, so I decided I'd just
walk the rest of the workout, and make this my first forty-minute workout in a
while. By the time 30 minutes rolled around, my shins felt so good that I decided
to try another bit of running, and put in a little one-minute spike.
My success
with going up to 40 minutes last night made me think about revising my training
strategy yet again. I've decided to focus on the 2 min run/2 min walk, and
see if I can't get more proficient at it by August 26th. That way I can increase
my miles for the marathon while doing the 2 min run/2 min walk, and I'm not trying
to increase both at the same time.
That just seems like a recipe for disaster
to me.
training 8/16
Locale: PF
Minutes: 25
Mileage: 1.15
Total mileage: 105.05
This workout was bad. I was still pretty weak from not
eating and drinking enough, and so I didn't have it in me to do a full thirty
minutes with three 2-minute running spikes. But I DID get in three running spikes,
two of which were 2-minutes long, and one 1-minute spike.
I probably shouldn't
have done this workout, but by the time Wednesday evening rolled around I was
so afraid that if I didn't go Wednesday I'd never go again -- so I went.
posted by Adrith 9:33 AM
August
17, 2000
Training Walk for 8/16
- Focus:
45 min casual stroll
- Duration: 30 min
- Where: gym, cross trainer
- Distance:
2.6 miles
Ok, this one was not one of those fun ones. Definitely more
duty than pleasure here. Blaaaaaah. Here are the bad parts:
- First
it was 94 deg today. I did not feel like walking outside in the morning, afternoon,
or evening. So it can't be outside and it has to be gym.
- Second, when
I got to gym I was greeted by a blast of hot air and that BO smell of hundreds
of sweating people. Great, the AC is retarded again.
- Third, I get to the
cardio floor, confirm the ladders and open ceiling and some dripping water puddles
in the usual spot where repair people come to tinker with the AC. Great, wet spots
everywhere, making it even more humid and skanky in the room.
- Fourth,
it's crowded for some reason, and I'm stuck with the yucky cross trainer nobody
likes. Everyone avoids it when possible because the console displays all funky
and the number pad is wonky so it's a pain to set it up to get started.
Ugh,
ugh, ugh. Not pleasant at all on days like these. I made a deal with myself to
stick it out for at least 30 minutes and then I could skip out on the rest. So
I did.
The good parts? I'm on target for my 3L of water today, and I dropped
off the NF display stuff at that second bookstore, so now we've got 200 more forms
out there somewhere. If they all get handed out at the stores, and statistics
bear out, that's a potential $1000 there.
Hope, hope, hope, hope...
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 9:16 PM
August 16, 2000
Training Walk for 8/15
- Focus: Speed for 60 min
- Duration: 60 min
- Where: cross trainer
@ gym
- Distance: 5.95 miles
- Hear rate: 170-180
- Calories
burned: 690
I'm behind a day on the schedule. I took an extra day
of rest because my knees were feeling funky. So was my ankle. I think when we
went biking on Sunday when we did those little bits of rough riding I must have
taken a branch too stiff on my bike and it shook me up more than it should have.
The other not great part is my nose is so badly clogged up Benadryl isn't cutting
it. It's the peak of mold season. Blah. I need to get checked out and put on Claritin
or something.
Good parts? Had a great time today at the gym with my Power
Puff Girls:Heroes and Villains CD. I was so into it I didn't even notice that
weird "switchover" feeling that happens to be twenty minutes into a
session. I love speed days -- I can just zone out and go.
I
was trying to hit 65 RPM but that wasn't happening with my knee so I settled into
a comfortable 63 RPM. It's not much over my usual 60 RPM, but I was at least making
an effort towards a faster foot turnover rate. I drifted off into daydreaming
and I was telling myself to make sure I stash a copy of the PPG CD in my hydrapak
on race day to whip out when I start getting really bad during the last part of
the course. I hear after mile 20 or so the service road stretch is loooooong and
boooooring. Worse yet, on a slight incline. Ugh.
Tried to imagine what
Adrith and I will look like on race day. I think I want two temporary penguin
tattoos on both arms. Hee hee.
posted by Cat 'Astrophe'
9:08 PM
August 15, 2000
I was hoping to be able to come into work this morning and tell you all about
me running 2 minute spikes at the gym last night. Instead I get to tell you that
nothing will burst your motivational bubble like a nickel-size broken blister
on the ball of your foot. Ow! Ow! Ow!
I think I can thank the laundry debacle
for this development -- because along with the workout clothes, all of my socks
for the weekend were in that laundry basket. I'm betting that the blister is the
result of wearing the same stuff on my feet all weekend.
If it's feeling better
tonight, I'll run then. Bah!
posted by Adrith 9:01 AM
Only noon and it's feeling pretty good. I'm
feeling really motivated to get to the gym tonight, or even maybe go outside for
a run. Weather is a little wet but cool, and that's good for running. I've
also made major modifications to my six-week training which take into account
the impending arrival of the NF Marathon Team training start date. I also gave
the training its own HTML
document, so that it would have a permanent home even if something happened
to my journal.
The modifications are agressive -- they're pretty big leaps.
I increase distance/time as I'm increasing the length of the running spikes. But
it's the only way I can do both and be in pretty good shape for the long runs,
which I want to be able to do at a 10/1 cycle. And I manage that with the modified
training.
It's funny -- I'm talking about running a 10/1 cycle, something that
the more established and experienced runners on the Disney
Deads list do. Maybe it's finally time to delurk on that list. Or maybe I
should wait until I'm actually doing the 10/1 intervals with success before I
post.
No. It's time to come out of hiding and be a member. I'm training for
real.
posted by Adrith 12:42 PM
August 14, 2000
An iffy weekend. We spent it up in Barnstead,
NH, house-sitting for my in-laws, who were on Cape Cod. I had every intention
of going to my gym's Concord location to get some miles in. I also had every intention
of doing our laundry at their house. So when I packed our clothes for the weekend,
I said "there's workout clothes in the laundry.. I'll just do laundry first".
We then proceeded to forget the laundry at home.
Then, on Sunday morning, I
had the urge to go out and do some running. I figured I'd try going out in my
cargo pocket shorts, and it would be fine. But then I remembered that I had no
way of telling how long I'd been out or when I should run and when I should walk,
because I'd lost my sport watch.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
So what's
the first thing I did when I got home? I went out to the mall and started hitting
the sports stores for a watch that had at least a 26-lap memory. The ones I found
were overpriced and not easy to operate the functions I wanted. I then went to
Sears, where I found a sports watch by Armitron that is water resistant to 165
meters, and has a 300-lap memory.
No, that's not a typo. That's 300-lap memory.
It ALSO calculates your best lap time and your average lap time (useful functions
to have, I think), and has pacing and speed functions. In short, it's just spiffy.
I think I'm going to have a good week.
posted by Adrith
8:56 AM
August 13, 2000
*yawn* I am sooo tired. We tried to go biking today but rain/directions got us
all messed up and when we ended up near Paul's hometown, we gave up looking for
the park we wanted and just drove to a smaller family park and biked there. Cool
little boardwalks, took a nice walk, did some short stints through the woods,
but stuck mainly to the flat paved loops and listened to Paul tell me about when
he was a little kid in that park. And easy 6 miles. Fun, but we'll have to try
again for the other park.
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 9:21
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