CU game is fugly. Guess I didn't even need points, I'm still buying lunch.
It must have poured for at least six hours, starting at 3 am today. Several huge thunderclaps right overhead, with the best coming about 9:30 this morning that brought down the cable line, including internet and phone, and set off the alarm. My neighbors told me they thought lightning actually hit the house. If it did, it thankfully did not fry any electronics as far as I can tell.
I had no choice but to elliptical for 30 minutes, which was sorta fun since I never do it any more. Nice to rediscover the ipod.
Last night swam 1650. It mostly sucked. I feel like I just thrash around. Then had Sharp's garlicky veggie-chicken pasta, which I like, but it sure doesn't like me a few hours later. Especially with a huge storm going on above me.
Thursday night, the LONG run. I think I wanted to do 9 - 10 miles. But since I have no gadgets, I have to guess and assume that a slow training pace is about 9 minute miles. So I should have run not much more than 90 minutes. But I got it in my head that I needed to run 1:45. So I ended up doing the entire Trolley Trail, well Volker - 85th, round trip. It was about 1:41. Felt really great except for my back, which was tight for the last two-thirds at least. When I got home, it nearly spasmed for awhile. Finally, it mellowed with some ibuprofen and very gentle stretching. Weird. Running rarely bothers my back, especially when I do it late in the day.
I should have done that run last week as it's getting too close to the race. The big race that all were gunning for this year. Yet somehow it looks like it will be me and my lonesome for a couple hours on Saturday morning. Well and a few hundred of my closest friends.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
random post #99
I had a fantastic week of pseudo-vacation. Five days of training on the BlueCoat web proxy/cache appliance, conveniently located in the Crossroads neighborhood of KC. Let's see what was so cool about it -
1 - NO DRIVING on 435. In fact, I drove one day out of five. I rode my bike three days and took the MAX once. And I only drove Friday because I had the course books and did not want to tote them around all over First Friday and Beer-a-rama.
2 - No beige cubicle land.
3 - Five days of lunches, from local places: Bulldog, JackStack, Cigar Box, Lidia's and the Hereford House. Can't beat that with a stick. No strip malls!
4 - A chance to remember that, really it's cool to work in IT. Now let's hope that will stick past tomorrow ...
So I got a nice, easy 12 mile ride three days. It was unseasonably warm most of last week, but still cool enough in the morning to not have to worry about a change of clothes or excessive sweating.
Other random thoughts:
I finished the next-to-last week of my 'swim a mile' program. By sometime the week after next, theoretically, I will be able to swim a mile (1650 yards, which actually is a metric mile 1500m, and not a true mile, which is 1760 yards) without 'stopping.'
Why is it that the minute I am done swimming and stand up, I have to pee like a racehorse?
A good 30 miler on the bike this morning. That may be it for the season, with the darkness in the early mornings and the questionable weather. I doubt I will ride much next weekend since I need to get in a 10 mile run, probably Thursday, which will leave my legs dead for a few days.
And two weeks from today is the half-mary. Which I may be running as if I'm 31 all over again. Hmmmm.... I do believe I'm faster now, what up with that? Nevertheless, I still hope to break two hours. If I can do nines the whole way, that's 1:55. My PR is 1:47 but really that doesn't much count, it was the Georgetown-Idaho Springs half, which loses 1000 ft in elevation over the course. Not happening on these hills here ....
I've run two KC half courses in 2:02-ish. The good thing about this year's course is the relatively long, flat stretch from 8 or 9 in. At Hospital Hill 2003, I wanted to cry as I hit mile 10 going up effin' JC Nichols Pkway from the Plaza. And as I recall, climbing out of River Market at the Humana 2002 Half towards the finish was equally painful.
1 - NO DRIVING on 435. In fact, I drove one day out of five. I rode my bike three days and took the MAX once. And I only drove Friday because I had the course books and did not want to tote them around all over First Friday and Beer-a-rama.
2 - No beige cubicle land.
3 - Five days of lunches, from local places: Bulldog, JackStack, Cigar Box, Lidia's and the Hereford House. Can't beat that with a stick. No strip malls!
4 - A chance to remember that, really it's cool to work in IT. Now let's hope that will stick past tomorrow ...
So I got a nice, easy 12 mile ride three days. It was unseasonably warm most of last week, but still cool enough in the morning to not have to worry about a change of clothes or excessive sweating.
Other random thoughts:
I finished the next-to-last week of my 'swim a mile' program. By sometime the week after next, theoretically, I will be able to swim a mile (1650 yards, which actually is a metric mile 1500m, and not a true mile, which is 1760 yards) without 'stopping.'
Why is it that the minute I am done swimming and stand up, I have to pee like a racehorse?
A good 30 miler on the bike this morning. That may be it for the season, with the darkness in the early mornings and the questionable weather. I doubt I will ride much next weekend since I need to get in a 10 mile run, probably Thursday, which will leave my legs dead for a few days.
And two weeks from today is the half-mary. Which I may be running as if I'm 31 all over again. Hmmmm.... I do believe I'm faster now, what up with that? Nevertheless, I still hope to break two hours. If I can do nines the whole way, that's 1:55. My PR is 1:47 but really that doesn't much count, it was the Georgetown-Idaho Springs half, which loses 1000 ft in elevation over the course. Not happening on these hills here ....
I've run two KC half courses in 2:02-ish. The good thing about this year's course is the relatively long, flat stretch from 8 or 9 in. At Hospital Hill 2003, I wanted to cry as I hit mile 10 going up effin' JC Nichols Pkway from the Plaza. And as I recall, climbing out of River Market at the Humana 2002 Half towards the finish was equally painful.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
no one's blogging ...
Ran tonight for the first time since Sunday. The knee bothered me quite a bit and then my hip. Weird, it hadn't hurt for days. I have not been icing because it did not hurt and that was probably a mistake ... Other than that, I had a nice 50 minute run on the trail.
Spinning Monday and Wednesday. Monday was tough I tried to take it easy but it was still hard after the race on Sunday.
Swim 1500 on Tuesday. It actually felt easier.
Race on Sunday. 5K-30K-5K. 1:54 time. Hit the first 5K at a blazing, for me, 23:46. I was second female off the run, the lead woman who would win the race, was a fast runner.
T1 was slow. Guess maybe I ought to work on those some.
The bike was hard, I thought, at least on the way out. It was gradually uphill and into the wind. The race was so small that there were few people around me for the most part. I tried to drink my powerbar drink and eat a couple clifshots but the drink was pretty sweet and eating was hard. I'm not sure I'm destined to be able to eat much while going that hard. Finished the bike in just over an hour, for an 18 mph average, which made me happy. I cranked out quite a bit of it in the big ring too.
T2 also very slow.
Second 5K was really hard, especially the last mile. My time was just over 27, slightly under 9 min pace, but I bet I was close to 8:30 for the first couple miles. It was heating up, I was wearing a bike jersey and I was tapped.
I finished third female - out of, ahem, four. The first three finished within a couple minutes of each other. I was happy with my times but saying I was third of four.. eh. The fourth was over 60 and she finished in a little over two hours. I sure I hope I can do that in 20 years!
This race was small but fun. I'd probably do it again, though I don't dig driving an hour and a half before a race. We also got a nice technical shirt, not the usual cotton. Unfortunately, the medium I got is pretty large.
I was 15/29 of all solo entries. It seems that the multi-sport in KC draws a hard-core group. The other du I did this year was also pretty hard-core. It makes me happy to know I can hang with the big kids.
So I was happy with my effort. Somehow I seem to crash at about 1:30. I thought swigging some electrolyte drink would help but I couldn't get enough down. I need to water that down. It didn't taste that sweet before the race!
Next up, 13.1 miles of fun! I hope to get in a 10-11 miler next week and a few short easy runs, but this will be interesting running a half on relatively little actually running.
Spinning Monday and Wednesday. Monday was tough I tried to take it easy but it was still hard after the race on Sunday.
Swim 1500 on Tuesday. It actually felt easier.
Race on Sunday. 5K-30K-5K. 1:54 time. Hit the first 5K at a blazing, for me, 23:46. I was second female off the run, the lead woman who would win the race, was a fast runner.
T1 was slow. Guess maybe I ought to work on those some.
The bike was hard, I thought, at least on the way out. It was gradually uphill and into the wind. The race was so small that there were few people around me for the most part. I tried to drink my powerbar drink and eat a couple clifshots but the drink was pretty sweet and eating was hard. I'm not sure I'm destined to be able to eat much while going that hard. Finished the bike in just over an hour, for an 18 mph average, which made me happy. I cranked out quite a bit of it in the big ring too.
T2 also very slow.
Second 5K was really hard, especially the last mile. My time was just over 27, slightly under 9 min pace, but I bet I was close to 8:30 for the first couple miles. It was heating up, I was wearing a bike jersey and I was tapped.
I finished third female - out of, ahem, four. The first three finished within a couple minutes of each other. I was happy with my times but saying I was third of four.. eh. The fourth was over 60 and she finished in a little over two hours. I sure I hope I can do that in 20 years!
This race was small but fun. I'd probably do it again, though I don't dig driving an hour and a half before a race. We also got a nice technical shirt, not the usual cotton. Unfortunately, the medium I got is pretty large.
I was 15/29 of all solo entries. It seems that the multi-sport in KC draws a hard-core group. The other du I did this year was also pretty hard-core. It makes me happy to know I can hang with the big kids.
So I was happy with my effort. Somehow I seem to crash at about 1:30. I thought swigging some electrolyte drink would help but I couldn't get enough down. I need to water that down. It didn't taste that sweet before the race!
Next up, 13.1 miles of fun! I hope to get in a 10-11 miler next week and a few short easy runs, but this will be interesting running a half on relatively little actually running.
Friday, September 21, 2007
tgif
Busy at work this week.
But tried to come up with a good taper plan for Sunday's race ... especially given how dead my legs were on Saturday.
Sunday was the first day of the 1500 yard swims. That's a lot of swimming for me. It starts off with 600 then a 10 breath break, 300 and an 8 breath break, then four sets of 100 with 6 breaths between each and finally four sets of 50 with four breaths between each. The four and six breath breaks are really, really short, fyi. I have a couple more weeks on this plan and then I need to work on some drills or lessons or something. I feel like I'm really thrashing and flailing around.
Monday and Wednesday spin classes. Monday night yoga. Tuesday night an easy 30 minute run. Wednesday night at the Lyric Opera.
I had hoped to mountain bike Thursday but the SMP trails were still too wet, so I swapped for my Friday plan, another 1500 in the pool.
Saturday will be a hydrating and resting day ...
Curious about this... it shows nearly 25 miles when I thought the bike was 30K or about 18 miles ...
And is this hilly?
But tried to come up with a good taper plan for Sunday's race ... especially given how dead my legs were on Saturday.
Sunday was the first day of the 1500 yard swims. That's a lot of swimming for me. It starts off with 600 then a 10 breath break, 300 and an 8 breath break, then four sets of 100 with 6 breaths between each and finally four sets of 50 with four breaths between each. The four and six breath breaks are really, really short, fyi. I have a couple more weeks on this plan and then I need to work on some drills or lessons or something. I feel like I'm really thrashing and flailing around.
Monday and Wednesday spin classes. Monday night yoga. Tuesday night an easy 30 minute run. Wednesday night at the Lyric Opera.
I had hoped to mountain bike Thursday but the SMP trails were still too wet, so I swapped for my Friday plan, another 1500 in the pool.
Saturday will be a hydrating and resting day ...
Curious about this... it shows nearly 25 miles when I thought the bike was 30K or about 18 miles ...
And is this hilly?
Saturday, September 15, 2007
urgh - waiting for my Buffs to come on ...
The Buffs are to be on ESPN but I'm watching the Alabama-Arkansas game which won't end and listening to the game on the web ....
Let's see. I did about 8 miles (I think) Thursday night, 1:13. Quads really hurt DURING the run, which is weird. But felt strong otherwise, plenty of gas in the tank. I'll do about 90 minutes in a couple weeks and that's probably it for "long runs" until the half.
I wanted to get in a long ride this weekend, so went out with E for about 30 this morning. It was cold (< 50) and all over sucky. I had NO energy. I couldn't even catch her up the hill to Swope dammit. My legs were dead. I need to chill this week to get ready for the Sedalia du.
Swimming has become a recovery day activity for me. Next swim is 1500 yards!
I went on a fun ride with the outspokin group last weekend and may go tomorrow evening as well.
w00t - the Buffies are moving the ball...
Let's see. I did about 8 miles (I think) Thursday night, 1:13. Quads really hurt DURING the run, which is weird. But felt strong otherwise, plenty of gas in the tank. I'll do about 90 minutes in a couple weeks and that's probably it for "long runs" until the half.
I wanted to get in a long ride this weekend, so went out with E for about 30 this morning. It was cold (< 50) and all over sucky. I had NO energy. I couldn't even catch her up the hill to Swope dammit. My legs were dead. I need to chill this week to get ready for the Sedalia du.
Swimming has become a recovery day activity for me. Next swim is 1500 yards!
I went on a fun ride with the outspokin group last weekend and may go tomorrow evening as well.
w00t - the Buffies are moving the ball...
Monday, September 3, 2007
labor day
My neighbors invited me over for burgers for Labor Day. I got to play with their 1 year old little girl, who enjoyed a dinner of baked beans and couscous!
Earlier today, I rode with E to Longview Lake and back, about 37 miles. Not a great ride, though my furthest this year and on my road bike. Pretty hilly ride and I faded big time in the last 5. Need to get that second cage and ride with some Heed or something.
Sunday, I got up and ran about 30 minutes easy, cleaned like a maniac and then swam 1250 yards. Amazing how good that felt, except towards the end when my left shoulder started to bug me. I don't think I'll ever be a fast swimmer but I'm confident that I can have some serious swim endurance some sweet day.
Saturday - rode about 60 - 90 minutes with some mountain bike girls. I like to ride with other people but I like to keep going. I'm slow on the rocks but I don't like to stop. I'm old and I just stiffen up.
Friday - swam the last 900 yard workout and lifted.
Earlier today, I rode with E to Longview Lake and back, about 37 miles. Not a great ride, though my furthest this year and on my road bike. Pretty hilly ride and I faded big time in the last 5. Need to get that second cage and ride with some Heed or something.
Sunday, I got up and ran about 30 minutes easy, cleaned like a maniac and then swam 1250 yards. Amazing how good that felt, except towards the end when my left shoulder started to bug me. I don't think I'll ever be a fast swimmer but I'm confident that I can have some serious swim endurance some sweet day.
Saturday - rode about 60 - 90 minutes with some mountain bike girls. I like to ride with other people but I like to keep going. I'm slow on the rocks but I don't like to stop. I'm old and I just stiffen up.
Friday - swam the last 900 yard workout and lifted.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
59:45
That's how long I ran tonight - felt good. I was a little worried cause my knee was sore all day after cyclocross clinic last night, but it was fine.
So hitting the hour mark (well close) is important is a good sign that I'll be able to run 13.1. I bet I could do it right now, in fact, if I had to. Right this very moment in fact, after half a box of Kraft mac and cheese and two beers.
What else? Wish I'd discovered the logical swim plan earlier. I really have to learn the bilateral breathing, though, as I'm getting a bit of a sore neck. Coach Sarah is going to help me learn to tread water better too.
Spin class is back. Need to wear the HRM there again. Really need a smart training plan.
Not sure cyclocross is for me right now but I will probably give it a go at the next clinic. I need to work on my old hybrid because I can't lug that mountain bike around.
So hitting the hour mark (well close) is important is a good sign that I'll be able to run 13.1. I bet I could do it right now, in fact, if I had to. Right this very moment in fact, after half a box of Kraft mac and cheese and two beers.
What else? Wish I'd discovered the logical swim plan earlier. I really have to learn the bilateral breathing, though, as I'm getting a bit of a sore neck. Coach Sarah is going to help me learn to tread water better too.
Spin class is back. Need to wear the HRM there again. Really need a smart training plan.
Not sure cyclocross is for me right now but I will probably give it a go at the next clinic. I need to work on my old hybrid because I can't lug that mountain bike around.
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