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Chronicles of a fish: the days of surf and turf
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Early Morning Undisciplined Run
Plan: 6 miles at MP
For reasons previously mentioned in a previous post, my target pace this morning was to be 8 to 8:15 min/mile....and my very short-lived plan was to start out at 8:15 and try to maintain or improve a bit with each mile. Didn't happen.
I was very, very undisciplined. :mad: Because I have a massive Christmas shopping trip planned today, I had to get out earlier than usual and get this done - I was out on on the streets before 7:45 - so that meant I had to consume a bit of breakfast and do a few stretches all before I normally have any thoughts of throwing on the runners and pulling back the hair. UGH!! But this is good practice, I'm sure, for something....
In a nutshell, first three miles were way too fast (felt too good and was loving life, even on a few of the hills) - 7:50, 7:51, 7:48......and the second three miles were more of a struggle (in my defense I did save the two hardest miles for last) - 8:00, 8:11, 8:14. I will say, however, I was feeling stronger as mile 6 went on, and I am glad I didn't shy away from the hills at the end. Oh, and some house frau must've been cooking a full fry up as I trotted by on mile 4 or 5 because the smell of it made me nauseous. I seriously could have stopped to puke.
Now, off to spend all of my money!!!!
Actual: 6.04 in 48:13 for an average pace of 7:59 min/mile
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banner_phoenix wrote: »So DCM pacer then eh....nice
. You can buy me a drink in McGrattans for planting the seed 
You're coach ain't gonna be happy with those splits
Whoa, whoa, whoa......
I said I'd consider doing DCM as a pacer, but there are a few very important elements missing here.....like, I may not even be qualified or allowed to be a pacer....or, perhaps those horribly undisciplined splits seen above might very well disqualify me from being considered fit enough to be a pacer (yikes, hide that post from the Boston peeps for they might take my slot from me with those awful splits)....or, quite possibly they have a waiting list a mile long of pacer-wannabes and, if I'm lucky, they might put my name on the end of that list and I might be called to duty by the year 2016. Soooo, let's not be counting our McGrattans chickens before they are hatched. But if I do happen to make it to McGrattans for whatever reason and under whatever set of DCM circumstances, I'll certainly buy you that drink.
In the meantime, I'll be working on those splits. 0 -
"E" is for Effort and Endurance
Plan: 14 miles easy
It's a bit of a dreary day, and I'm getting a little bored with my usual town running, plus I feel like I've shunned some quality hill running by the lake, and there's the little matter of my pretty pink Camelbak not being used as of late, so I decided to take the opportunity to make a little adventure out of today's easy run by running a route I've never run (I've run parts of it, just not in the order I did today), getting some awesome hill running in by the lake, and adding a bit of weight and freedom by using my pretty pink Camelbak. Wow are my legs screaming at me now. The pace was way down (as expected), but this was a solid 14 mile run that I hope will tick the box of strength and endurance. Highlights as follows:
- Kept the effort pretty even throughout the run.
- Did not stress about how slow I was going.
- Was absolutely amazed how heavy my 3+ pound Camelbak felt on my back (this was my first road run with it). :eek:
- Got me doing a fat inventory of my own body to see where I could shave some weight off and wondered to what effect.
- Sang "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" over and over in my head, which, while it totally drove me mad after about 30 minutes, kept my cadence steady.
- Love that the elevation gain on this run was 809 feet. :cool:
- Took advantage of Lake Arrowhead's facilities - why not, right?
- Saw all of our county's kitty cats out hunting... and scared a herd of cattle with my pack sloshing about.
- Relaxed it as much as my tired legs would allow on the downhill, and was pleasantly surprised to see miles 10, 11 and 12 be at a decent pace and felt good.
- The elevation profile sort of reminds me of the top of a cat's head.
- Slowed it down for the last two miles, but honestly by the last mile my legs were toast.
Not much else to add other than this was a quality time-on-my-feet run, but I suspect I'll be suffering some consequences tomorrow.
Actual: 14.01 miles in 2:12.15 for an average pace of 9:26 min/mile.
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Jingle Bell Group Fun Run
Necklaces that blink, check.
Bracelets that blink, check.
Santa hat that blinks, moves, jingles and sings, check.
Glittery red Santa short skirt, check.
Red and white knee socks with fuzzy stuff on top, check.
Group evening run to look at holiday lights and decorations with good friends and smiling kids and tail wagging dogs, check, check and check.
What a great idea to do this - and the kids really made this run both fun and special as they were so excited to be running at night decked out in various degrees of holiday dress - reindeer antlers, ornaments hanging from ears, ribbons in hair, Santa hats, things that jingled, things that twinkled....and they all were chatting and guiding and commenting and pointing out sparkly things and telling me who lived here and who lived there and all about a neighborhood cat named Wally. Really super kids, all of them even the young lad whose mother thought we may not be able to keep up with him who was huffing and puffing on every hill and we slowed down for until we got near the end of the run and he tried to very quietly beat me to the parking lot by picking up the pace at the end of our run but I was having none of that....Santa should be very good to all of them.
2.5 easy miles, which was a nice little recovery run for me today.0 -
Trainer
Plan: cross train
Legs were feeling yesterday's 3-pound-pack-on-my-back-809-feet-up-14-mile-hilly run tonight, so this was a bit of an unpleasant session. Cue the mind trickery.....
Partition the body into zones. Relax. Breathe. Enlist involuntary leg movement via musical choreography. Head down. Eyes closed. Distraction. Become the artist. Relax. Breathe. Partition.
Actual: 20 miles on the trainer0 -
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Treadie Trot
Plan: 7 easy miles
Due to holiday obligations and errands, I'll more than likely be doing the next few days' training sessions on the good old treadmill. The treadmill is not my first choice for these sessions, but thank goodness I have it as an option for otherwise they may not get done - plus BeepBeep has given the nod to the treadie as a legitimate running option.
I kept this session easy breezy in the comfort of my climate controlled, toasty warm, happy little basement. It took about a mile and a half for the cobwebs to be blown off (yes, the treadmill fan was on), then the body felt pretty good for the next 5.5 miles. Other than the little issue I am having with my right knee and my left glute - more simmering-chronic than show-stopping-acute.
It's been a few months since I've been on the treadmill and I actually rather enjoyed this change in scenery. Because I kept the pace pretty easy (but why do treadmill sessions always feel harder than they should at the pace we go?) my feet would periodically hit the front panel. Oops. I guess maybe I was taking it a bit too easy. Highlight alert: the crescendo of the session occurred as I approached the last mile and the endorphins reached their peak and my inner musician kicked in and Chris Cornell and I belted out a sizzling rendition of "Doesn't Remind Me".
Actual: 7 lovely miles on the treadmill0 -
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Treadmill Time, the Sequel
Plan: 7 miles easy
Well, I've come down with a full blown case of the creeping crud. Yep. Coughing, hacking, achey, stiff neck, tired, feel like crap - pretty classic stuff. But I'm not dying....plus I had laundry to do.....so there was no legitimate reason to not get this session done.....so done it is. Tomorrow is a rest day (yay!) but I'm supposed to travel to Alexandria to visit my brother and his family for a Christmas weekend, so here's hoping I don't contaminate my dear family - I don't believe I remember seeing "the plague" on any of their Christmas lists.
Actual: 7 snotty miles on the treadmill
I'm glad to get these last 3 days out of the way, and I thank my treadmill for lending me a much needed hand, but I do believe I'm done with that apparatus for a while.
Heading to bed to sleep this crud away....0 -
The Snot Trot :eek::o;):D
Plan: 2 miles easy, 10 x (1 min on/2 min off), 2 miles easy
With my cold now reaching substantially new heights (I believe I received a text from the CDC asking me to turn myself in to the neatest public health office), and because I hardly slept last night due to the constant coughing I was doing, my brother and hubby were quite amused when I emerged at 7:45 this morning dressed and ready to go for a run. (We're visiting my brother in Alexandria.) Basically my thinking was, I couldn't sleep because I was miserable so I might as well get this session done and not waste time even if I was coughing up my left lung and blowing amazing amounts of snot out of my head while chain-sucking on cherry flavored throat lozengers. Duh. My brother gave me a bit of a lecture because my cold has gone to my chest, but after I explained that I really only had 10 minutes of hard running to do and that the rest was easy (and I promised him I'd go easy) he rolled his eyes and gave me one of those older brother looks that he's so good at....and I very merrily headed out the front door with snot rags, more cherry lozengers and a bottle of water. Good times!
Down to the bike path that runs between the Potomac River and the George Washington Parkway I went - an old haunt of mine. As a kid, I spent many afternoons riding my bike from home to Old Town, so this was a treat for me. Well, other than the fact that I felt like I weighed 300 pounds and the wind was blowing me sideways, this was a treat for me. :eek: I suspected pretty early on that this would not be my stellar performance, and it wasn't. Oh well. I seem to be on a bit of a poor performance streak right now, but hopefully I'll snap out of it soon. I met many other runners on the path, many of whom were part of the Potomac Runners running club (they had club t-shirts on and a designated picnic table at the marina). I was initially a bit jealous of the running club because I think that is something I'd like to be a part of, but immediately snapped out of that rose colored glasses moment and was thankful to be running on my own considering the state I was in.
No need to waste space on the easy sections of the run, let's just say they epitomized the word. Heck, I even took plenty of liberties by allowing myself guilt free recovery walking between fast intervals. The intervals themselves were so-so. The first few were into the wind and I would have bet you a million bucks they were my slowest ones, but they weren't.....and I was totally shocked and horrified when I saw my 8th interval as I have absolutely no idea what happened to me there. I will admit that I perhaps didn't totally push each and every fast minute so all of them probably could have been faster, but this is what I did on this day under these conditions, and without further ado here are the stats. (Will post Garmin as an edit later.)
1 min on paces:
6:35, 6:59, 6:35, 6:55, 6:51
6:52, 7:14, 7:37, 7:05, 6:45
Thinking about the 7th and 8th intervals, I believe these may have been slightly uphill....so perhaps that's part of why they are so much slower than the rest.
Actual: 7.29 miles in 1:09:19 for an average snail's pace of 9:30 min/mile.0 -
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The Better Than Nothing Session
Yesterday's Plan: 14 miles easy
My hope a week ago for this session was to do the exact same hilly 14 mile run I did last Sunday, complete with my camelback full of water, but I was way too sick yesterday to consider tackling this session then so I decided to put it off until today since we only worked a half day today. However, between this nagging cold with a chesty cough, and the wintry mix of sleet, snow and rain coming down outside, I opted to do this in the most artificial (if not warm and cozy) way possible - on the treadmill. Ugh! Just when I thought I was done with this revolving runway. Oh well. Better than nothing.
The first 5 miles were a struggle - lungs and throat burning and some serious temptations to quit. Miles 6 through 12 were actually okay - White Christmas came on tv and I got into a steady rhythm watching Danny Kaye dance and Bing Crosby sing their respective little hearts out. Thank god there were only 2 more miles to go at this point because otherwise I probably would have stopped right then and there for my body was just about done, but I figured, what's 2 more miles??
Came upstairs to find that in the 2 plus hours I spent getting this session done that the wintry mix had turned to snow. Looks like we're having a white Christmas in Virginia.
Actual: 14 miles on the treadmill.
This was supposed to be done yesterday...today was supposed to be cross train.....tomorrow is supposed to be 7 miles easy. What a mess when the body decides to get sick and you start tinkering with the plan!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!! 0 -
The Elf Who Stole Christmas Session
Plan: 7 miles easy
I'm still sick - hacking up crap, lungs burning when I run, and still feeling pretty pooped. Also, the intense fog made it look like pea soup out there this morning plus the roads were spotted in ice. Oh, and our clinic was broken into and robbed last night and we've been up since 2:00 this morning dealing with the police and inventorying all that was stolen. All that combined, I made the decision to use the blessed treadmill yet again. This has not been my finest week.
Actual: 7 miles on the treadmill while trying to remind myself what this day is supposed to be about.0 -
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interested wrote: »I can't believe that. Someone breaks into a clinic on Christmas eve ?? :mad:
Yep. Sucks. And they knew exactly what they wanted and where it was. And they prob knew exactly how much time they had to get in and out due to our alarm system and how fast the police got there (in 6 minutes).:mad: 0 -
Yep. Sucks. And they knew exactly what they wanted and where it was. And they prob knew exactly how much time they had to get in and out due to our alarm system and how fast the police got there (in 6 minutes).:mad:
At least nobody was hurt. Hell of a response time by the local law enforcement.0 -
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Kurt Godel wrote: »Sorry to hear about this Dory, today of all days. Keep smiling, keep bright; light is the best way to fight against darkness. Most folk are sound as a pound. Merry feckin' Christmas girl:)
Merry feckin' Christmas Kurt. 0 -
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Wednesday Night Session
Plan: 7 miles at MP pace
For the first morning in 5 mornings, I woke up feeling less like death warmed over and more like I might not have to worry about who to bequeath my shiny new pink compression socks to. (Merry Christmas to me!) But, it snowed and sleeted all day , so a proper road run was not even an option tonight....so I saddled up my treadie and away we went. My goal was to average this run between 8 and 8:20 min/mile, and I decided to start out nice and slow and then increase the speed every half a mile. Job done.
Being sick these last 5 days has been no bed of roses. I have not been this sick in years, and I'm not very good at it. I did take one day off from training, and good god the crazy thoughts of failure and plan strategy and lost time and lost days and starting from scratch and slow as molasses in January and ARGHHHH.....this has totally screwed everything up!!!! PANIC!!!! Whew. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. But, on the bright side, if we had to have bad weather, I'm glad it happened now while I've been sick and forced me to do these sessions indoors. So at least there's that. I'm on the mend....should be good as new by the weekend. Oh, and the lung burning was much improved tonight - just smoldering ash. So there's that too.
Actual: 7 miles in 57:18 for an average pace of 8:10 min/mile0 -
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