April 30
12mi, 1:16:16 (6:21/mi): Hennepin-Lake + xtra. Found a great rythym tonight. Lovely rain, and yesterday's ice bath worked wonders on the legs. I anticipate being very glad to have the CSED as an option tomorrow. Stats For Schrades: 322mi in April is a PR for the month, destroying 2002 by 41mi; 1123mi on the year is ahead of previous 4-month best, also 2002, by 47mi. Of course, mileaj alone has yet to translate on the roads, but I'm starting to feel strong. And those workouts I was talking about yesterday should start up again this week. Erik, your blog is beautiful.
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May 1
10 (1:06:48) MTPO.
LSCC moved to tomorrow, so just a nice easy run for me today. It took a little while to get going, but around halfway the legs started to feel a little better. The quads are still sore from Sunday's long run, but improving. Not sure if tomorrow's workout is going to help that or not. It seems unlikely.
May 1: MTPO 1:07:18. Chap got me. But I totally ran earlier in the morning. And felt alright. Definitely something to this "trying to not have a sore back" thing. We'll see how tomorrow goes though, today I've been away from my magical chair. . .
Tuesday: 6.5 with Matt Mas. Took yesterday off and the legs felt fine today after Sunday's long one. Then some pizza, baseball watching. The Milwaukee Brewers have the best record in baseball, folks.
Oooh, Tom, the site looks so pretty, in spring colors. How cute. Did Jessica make you do this?
May 2
11 (1:08ish) GC Wkt.
2 up, 3x GC loop at supposed to be MP effort, 2 down. I would say the effort ended up closer to 1/2 Mar. effort than the whole way, but it was pretty relaxed. On the flats, I was right on the edge of starting to breathe harder. Going up the hill I was definitely breathing hard, but it's steep. Got the breathing back to essentially not-at-all on the following downhill, and felt pretty smooth the whole way. Had trouble telling if I had done one or three (I was a little out of it, mentally) at the end, so it was good I kept all of them on my watch. The good news is I could have done more- the effort was pretty close to where I wanted it to be. I was shooting for 13:30s, and ran 12:57, 12:49 and 12:53. As Biz astutley noted, though, we don't actually know how far the loop is. Ballbark 2.25 miles. Definitely more relaxed than the last time I did this workout, and I did an extra one this time, all at the same pace. I felt the soreness in my quads again, but not really until the last one, and I think it was from pounding pavement the whole way more than from running "hard." Legs still improving from the LR on Sunday.
If anyone is looking for a long run on July 7, I'll be at Afton running 50k. There is also a 25k. There is also a just running and not entering either one of them.
Chapadill, 50K is a long, long way, man. Just letting you know in case you spent time playing Virtua Game Boy in math class.
Wednesday: probably around 15 all told. Ran from work over to the Franklin Hill, then ran hard up the Franklin Hill 5 times, ran easy down it five times. Travelled the up of some undetermined distance in 2:43, 2:48, 2:45, 2:45, 2:40. Panted. Then wobbled back to the law school, and then ran an unusually taxing Nicollet Island LSCC route. Then I heard the awful news from James on the way home, and am now eating reheated pizza.
I can echo Chapel in that my legs are still recovering from Sunday. But nothing feels too beat up -- just lots of tired -- so that's good. I'll be interested to see where I'm at in a couple weeks at New Prague, because I really have no sense of what degree of improvement will be coming, when it will be coming, or if I'll even recognize it when it gets here. I nearly held my 5k pace at a 10k two weeks later and while I don't think it's realistic to expect to hold my 10k pace for the 1/2 two weeks after that, I have the sense I won't be too far off.
The Milwaukee Brewers still own the best record in all of baseball.
May 2: AM MTPO 1:06:58
Again, felt alright. Beginning to get some feelings of life in the legs again, and with it thoughts of racin' ye olde 1/2 mar.
p.s. Sherm, that humdinger is gonna happen in just a hair over 1 week ust so's ya know. . .
P.M. Biked over to LSCC, felt alright again, perhaps even slightly peppier than this morning, though that could have been the company.
The good news is that I'm currently sitting at Bullwinkles which has both wireless internet access and the Twins game. The bad news is that the D-rays have the bases loaded and have just tied the game with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Go study-night!
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