Training
Notes
|
11/8 | Rest
or easy 30-minute run |
I rested. Felt pooped and sniffling. |
|
11/9 | 3.5-mile
run |
3.5-mile walk |
Things are coming together, and
that is a really good feeling. I am too hyper at night about the race being so
near to sleep well. So I didn't get up yesterday to do it in the morning. The
day's e-mail with Adrith revealed she was going later that evening so we set a
date for 7:30 PM so we could be out there "together" at the same time.
I
spent my whole time crabbing at her in my head.
"Ow!
My foot hurts!"
"Argh, it's dark!"
"Damn that
car! It almost hit me!"
"Oh, great. DRIZZLE now."
I
also felt queasy from eating dinner just 30 minutes before so I didn't bother
trying to do intervals spurts-- just a brisk walk all the way through and get
it over with. Running would have shaken my dinner up inside me too much.
"Ugh, I am burping orange juice! It tastes bad!"
"My stomach
feels queasy -- I wanna throw up!"
"I'm snotty! I need a tissue!"
Then
I made myself laugh, because if Adrith really had been there she would have hit
me, or started running faster just to get away from me and my complaints. Better
yet, pelted me with a snowball so I'd quit yammering about my measly drizzle when
she has tougher weather issues coming up on her end. Plus, she is fighting a cold
herself. Maybe she'd flick a booger at me.This cracked me up. (Not that I want
your snot, Adrith.)
I brightened up after that and the rest of the walk
I thought good things about the race, and tried to deal mentally with my problems.
Rain happens. Next time I'll give myself more time to digest so I will eat earlier.
Definitely NO orange juice at ALL during race time. It's not worth the acid-y
stomach feelings no matter how much I like citrus. I'll but some travel size Kleenex
in my hydrapak at race time for sniffles or whatever on race day. And the foot
hurting? I realized eventually it wasn't ME but the shoe. It was the start of
hot foot on the edges. Another 20 miles and I'll really feel it as hot
foot! Which only means my sneaks need replacing because I've logged many miles
in this pair. I knew that already, I am going shopping for new ones very soon.
As soon as I know where to attend my NF Shoe Clinic and get my sneaker discount.
Anita said she'd be e-mailing us that pronto.
By that time I was home again.
I saw my time on my stopwatch and it was 55 ish min. for the 3.5 miles. Which
means it was an average pace of about 16 minutes. Not bad for a sickie! Esp. since
our ideal race pace is 15 min tops, and then no less than 20 minutes. All the
extra pushing over the summer to reach my 10 min miles on the cross trainer have
built me up pretty strong if I can do that while still weak from the flu. AND
NO ANKLE PROBLEMS ON CONCRETE! YEEEHA!
Adrith and I are going to do just
fine! :)
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 7:38 AM
Training Notes
| Date | Focus | Actual |
|
11/6 |
Rest | weights |
|
11/7 |
3.5-mile run | ~3 miles around
neighborhood for ~60 min |
Ok, now that I actually have some
time... I really enjoyed weights yesterday. It was really nice to veg out to some
good music and just concentrate on lifting. One of the reasons I like lifting
more than cardio is because I see results faster. I know I still need to do cardio
for other reasons, but being able to see improvement is really cool. I
can flex a muscle and see it getting more defined any time I want. I can't exactly
check out cardio improvements as visually. I mean, ever since we started training
for this race, I know that my speed and endurance have improved a lot! But it
still isn't the same as flexing or groping along your arm to feel yourself there...SOLID.
As
for today... I drank a liter of water with breakfast, then went out to do the
run on concrete this morning around dawn. The temps felt great! Nice cool high
60's, barely breaking into the 70's. This is the first time I've been out on concrete
since before the flu, so I knew I was going to take it easy. I was aiming for
the second pool, which would put me at about 3 miles round trip. I also cut back
my countdown timers to jog:walk intervals of 1:3 minutes. I felt good -- no calf
pain, no ankle pain. I remembered to keep my arms bent and moving, so no problems
with sausage fingers.
I did have a small problem when I got to the HOA
offices because there was this truck coming too fast and I didn't think he saw
me so I had to make a frantic leap to the sidewalk while on a jogging spurt. I
hate the sidewalk! All those cracks and bumps -- and I inevitably snagged the
bad ankle foot on one of them. I recovered before I fell, so I managed to prevent
a twist/sprain episode but I got really paranoid about it happening again and
slowed down and got back on the street ASAP. Not only is the pavement on the street
not as jarring as sidewalk pavement -- it's seamless!
My last three jog
spurts I was getting tired and starting to breathe kind of wheezy so I cut it
back to 40 seconds, then gave it up altogether at the last quarter mile home and
just walked it. When I got in I drank another 1/2 liter of water.
Overall
it was better than I expected. I figure it's going to take me at least another
week or two to rebuild what I lost while I was sick, but I'm in a good mood now
that I am back out there on the road.
posted by Cat
'Astrophe' 7:19 AM
Training Notes
| Date | Focus | Actual |
|
11/3 |
Rest | rest |
|
11/4 |
5-mile run | 6 miles elliptical cross trainer |
|
11/5 |
Cross-train 30-45 minutes | 30 min bike ride |
Running behind on notes. Allergy problems are back, but feeling ok.
Still taking it easy post flu. Lots of letters to mail out for fundraising. Doing
ok with food logging/water. Have a niggling little cough, and breathing is sometimes
wonky so I'm not doing any of this on full steam. Jsut trying to plod onwards
without overdoing it.
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 9:23
AM
I'm still here - but someone
gave me their cold! Drat them! Having my submaximal treadmill test today - I sure
hope it has an odometer, because I'm REALLY feeling under the weather and don't
look forward to making up five whole miles in the dark and cold tonight.
posted
by Adrith 11:22 AM
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