April 25
PM: 10.5mi, 1:11:13 (wkout): 20x200m w/200m jog recovery. WU/CD to and from the UMN track w/Jessica. Did not time the 200s but felt pretty strong on all of them. Legs were actually quite good. Stomach and the rest of my upper body not as good. Glad to get through 20. Work Work.
AM: 4mi, Shortcut Untimed. Stomach not altogether thrilled with the decision to run.
April 24
11.5mi, 1:14:44 (6:30/mi): LSCC + over there. Ran about 5mi around 6-min pace before the group run. Moderately therapeutic.
April 23
6mi, 40:36 (CSED): West Side Five + xtra. Nice recovery. Sprint drills.
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April 26
6.5 (44:21) A&W Ext.
Nice easy run in great running weather. Overcast, 55 and not too windy. Legs felt much better than yesterday, so things are moving in the right direction. We'll see if those "things" get where they're going before they get gotten to Minnehaha Falls on Saturday.
Thursday AM: 4 mile loop, new loop discovered yesterday on a walk. Yes, a walk. Stupid back. I walked for an hour and tried not to be insanely jealous of the bazillion runners who went past me. Yeah, that didn't work so well. But back to the run... it was fine, early, moderately windy and rainy, but I get extra gold stars for the day for running in the morning after too many nights with bad sleep.
Really looking forward to Madison's arb/10k loop this weekend and not being able to see high rises when I'm supposed to be in "nature."
Thursday: Easy 6 with Betsy. Cool and pleasant out. New pair of shorts give me chafeage only on the left thigh...very strange. Hope it doesn't say something about my gait.
Muggy, what are these "loops" you speak of? In Chicago, I generally had two runs: Run To The Lake and Go North, and Run to the Lake and Go South.
Shermanator:
My loops involve going to the lake, going north on one side of the park and then coming back in the middle of the park or along the lake. It's all very exciting.
As for the chafeage issue, perhaps it has more to do with a "Lande" problem rather than your gait.
Question: who is this Betsy who keeps appearing in your posts?
Sherman,
When I visited Chicago, I only ran one loop: Go to the Lake and Run Around it. It's a little Chris Lundberg, in terms of distance, but you get used to it.
Muggy, Betsy is a friend who lives a couple blocks away that provides running company. Nothing more exciting there...
I never really used the park, but that's because my entrance/exit point was a few blocks up and I avoided the city running. The fun part about the lake was that, even moving from the south side to the north side, the basic running pattern didn't change at all. There's a gravel bridle path around a park in Hyde Park that was nice for repeats, and I did a few "ghetto runs" with the U of C team that are about what the name suggests, but otherwise it was a whole lot of lake breezes.
This conversation reminds me that I am glad I did not choose U of Chicago for grad school. Ghetto runs indeed.
In other news, I figured out late last week that I had a stress fracture in my heel. This is quite odd considering that, as we all know, I only run on my toes. So how does this happen? Your guess is as good as mine.
Anyway...have been having some lovely times in the pool with the octagenarians and such. The other day there was a hole group of them singing the "hokey pokey" followed by "roll out the barrel." An interesting combination I thought.
That's the way things are going. Was the only person at Hayward Field last week who was not happy when Galen Rupp beat Chris Solinsky, although I do have to give him credit, it was the first gutsy move I have ever seen him make in a race. Although it did take Alberto Salazar giving him the signal at the appropriate moment. Otherwise nothing would have happened and Solinsky would have won easily.
April 27
4.5 (30:23) WF Ext.
Ran up to the GC corner with Biz and Tom. It was glorious. They kept going, I turned around.
April 28
13 (33:22- 10k) Get In Gear 10k.
Well, not a terrible day. Ended up one second off my PR, and with a post collegiate PR, so I can't be too dissapointed. I thought I could go under 33 today, but nobody really ran fast in the entire race, so I guess that wasn't to be. 30th place overall, and 2nd in the age group to Biz, which gets me a free entry next year, which is nice. Also split my third fastest 8k ever (counting the split from my 10k PR).
Splits: 5:10, 5:21 (10:32), 5:27 (15:59), 5:27 (21:26), 5:23 (26:50), 6:32 (33:22). Caught Tom around 5 miles after trying and failing to ride Merchant's coattails when he passed me at 2.5. Whatever. Time to go back to training after a relatively easy week.
Sat: 10 or so in total. Get in Gear in 38:42, around 6:15 pace. Pretty happy with the race: negative split it (19:25 first 5k) and a consistent effort with some weak sauce the last half-mile. Progress.
Who had something inappropriate to say at 1:25? Questions, questions.
And, talk about backhanded compliments, Senner...wow. I also must defend roll out the barrel as the finest seventh-inning-stretch closer out there.
Duck Pond: 6 miles, 54 minutes.
I can't even tell you how delighted I was to discover that, on five days of rest, a slow, flat run can still be excruciatingly painful and taxing. Yeah! Glad I haven't entered any races 'cause that would be a waste of money.
While I was limping back to my house, I did make a list of things that could be worse in the world than having a bum knee: having diabetes (type 1 or 2), being in a women's prison, being in a men's prison, working in a slaughter house, getting hit by a car, living (as it were) in Darfur, being deported, fighting in Iraq, being in law school.
Sunday: 20. With Tom and Dan. Long run got a little longer than I'd planned. From my condo down to Nokomis and across and up, finishing at Tom's place. Exhausting.
April 27: A & W ext w/ Tom, I forget the time. Perhaps I never knew it. Anyway. Legs didn't feel great, but they've felt worse. Probably shoulda run in the morning, but I'm lazy. Screw it.
April 28: Get in Gear 10k, 33:10 or so. Also some warmup, and more cooldown. 'Twas a bit warm and awful sunny. I can't say I felt too good afterwards, in fact, felt far from good. After two miles in the race my legs totally shut down and despite my heartrate dropping and my breathing occurring at a rate more appropriate to sitting on the couch than running a race, there was no way to coax faster movement from the legs. I'm gonna have to chalk this one up to the warmth and to everything else that's going on in life these days. The next two weeks I think the training is gonna go ahead and sit on the back burner while I get the school crap put to bed for the summer and find a damn job. I aspire to a resurgence at New Prague as happened last year but I can't say it's gonna get more than a second thought between now and then.
April 29: Mark Twain Feef-tain 1:46:39. Slow, dehydrated, easy. Beautiful morning, just ran it at whatever effort, hadn't rehydrated well enough yesterday, didn't drink before heading out, some of the waterfountains were on but the more essential ones were not. It didn't seem to impact the pace at all, things just would have been more comfortable with water, since it was warm. Oh well.
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