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April 25, 2005
Sort of Taper
Tonight is my last real scheduled workout for this week. The rest of this week is a "taper" week leading into Broad Street. This is one of my favorite races-there's a huge field, the course is fast and flat (OK, slightly downhill) and the weather is usually cooperative. Even the years that I have not had good races at BSR, I've run well. J and I had decided early on that this was one of the races that we wanted to focus on this year. That being said, I am not going to screw things up by doing too much this week. I read somewhere that your body does not feel the effects of any workout for ten days. That being said, all I can do this week is too much!
Tonight I was to do the full workout. J called me at work to tell me that he was going to be late because he had to go to his daughter's track meet. He also wanted to know how my weekend had gone and was not surprised to hear that Saturday was so difficult after the massage. J was very late for the track, he didn't get there until I was halfway done the workout. Tonight was 16 x 400 with a 200 jog again. We had a very small group tonight; only five showed up and only three of us were doing the workout. This made the workout much more difficult mentally. Trying to run 10K pace all alone can be challenging, but it only makes me tougher for a race.
I did feel a little bit better tonight than I did last week. It was significantly cooler tonight which made it more comfortable. Around the seventh quarter, I got this stomach pain in my left side that would not go away. It felt kind of like a gas bubble but there was not any gas to push out. During the last six 400s I would go through feeling good for two and then not too great for one. I was happy that I was able to hold 90s (except for the two not so great laps) and that my total time was close to a minute faster than last week. This means that not only were the intervals faster, but the recoveries were also faster. Having a pretty good workout, even not feeling all that great, is a huge confidence booster going into a race.
Now that it is staying light out later there are more people out on the track. We have a problem with walkers who stay in the inside lanes and don't move out of the way when people are running at them screaming TRACK!!! They also have kids who will jump out into lane one and stand there as you run at them and just look at you like deer caught in headlights. Some of these walkers are doing it to be ignorant. They must catch on when you are lapping them over and over again and yelling at them to get out of the way. This is one of my major pet peeves when it comes to tracks. I guess that I can't complain too much becuase the school does let the public use their track for free.
Thank you all for the prodding me to work on the job. I have gotten so that I don't really pursue anything because I am just so tired and exhausted at the end of the day. Our students have taken to coloring. These are children in high school. They are coloring super heros with crayons. There is a huge problem if there are no snacks. They actually get a snack for not going to time out during their classes. In order to not go to time out, they need to do the bare minimum-stay in their seats, maybe some work, not curse the teacher out. OK, putting this in public makes me know that I need out.
I didn't realize I would get so many responses about the comment of if I was on the high school track team. Some day I will be very happy to look young. Both of my parents look young for their ages, so hopefully it is in my genes.
Posted by Blondie at April 25, 2005 08:19 PM
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Good luck at Broad Street!!
Can't wait to hear your race report.
And thanks for the comments :)
Posted by: Barb at April 26, 2005 02:56 PM