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April 09, 2005
Saturday Morning Marathon Workout
The quickest way to sum up Friday is day off. After struggling so much on Thursday night, taking Friday off was a definite. The weather was pretty crummy, but by late afternoon the sun was struggling to make an appearance. Thursday night probably was not all that bad, the wind just changed the goal and objective of the workout. When I talked to J yesterday about the workout and he heard how windy it was on the track, he supported what I did. For some reason, wherever he was with the CYO kids, it was not nearly as windy (or he was just yanking my chain).
I did manage to go to the running store and get a new pair of training shoes and a new pair of racing flats. I ended up getting the Nike Zoom Marathoner. The owner also ordered the Sacuony FastTwitch, but they just didn't fit right. The flats I did get may be a little bit on the big side, but I really liked that they were soft around my toes so I won't end up with any black toenails. Mom and I went shopping last night, but after my spending earlier in the day, I did not purchase a single thing.
This morning I was absolutely exhausted when I got up. I was going to do the 19 mile course that I did about a month ago, but J reminded me that I really do not need to run that long for any reason. The course that I was planning to run is plenty hilly, in fact today I realized how hilly it is. The last time we ran this course, I did not remember it being so hilly. I was able to recruit my triathlete friend J to run with me today. He's doing a half-Ironman in three weeks, so he wanted to get a hilly long run in before the race. One road on this course can be pretty dangerous. There is a hill on a curve at one point and not much of a shoulder. We were running along and could hear this car coming, he was absolutely flying, we both jumped off the side of the road into grass. If there had been anyone else with us, or if we were about 20 feet further down the road, we would have been toast. J is a police officer, he tried to get the plate numbers, but could't get all the numbers. The truck was way over the speed limit and very reckless. Other than that bit of excitement, it was a nice run. We aren't quite sure how long the course is, but it definitely takes a lot of effort. It was cold in the shade, but really nice in the sun. I wore my fuel belt, three bottles of water and one of watered down Gatorade. I was a little bit better about drinking today. I had about 5 squirts of water and 2 squirts of Gatorade. I got back in about 1:53. My original plan was to run on the track to try to figure out what kind of pace I was running, but it looked like there may have been a track meet getting started, so I just ran back out on the road to hit 2 hours. I'm going to call it 17 miles, if it is a little bit short, the hills make up for the effort.
I dragged myself over to the gym. An easy hour on the stationary bike reading trashy mags was pretty unexciting. I did see a girl who I went to high school with and talked for her for about 20 minutes of the biking. The time goes much faster when you're talking with somebody. Afterwards I lifted. I was going to do more exercises, but I was just sick of lifting and people were doing all of the things that I wanted to do.
Today was another attempt at an ice bath. I swear that the water in our pipes is colder than it was during the summer. I had to straddle the tub and lower myself into it that way. My arms were so tired that they were shaking as I tried to get my butt in the water. I managed to stay in the ice cold water for 10 minutes. Hopefully my legs will thank me for it tommorow!
Posted by Blondie at April 9, 2005 11:53 AM