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May 05, 2005
Parking
Every year during the second weekend in May there is a carnival in the park adjacent to the school where we do track workouts. The police block off most of the streets in the area for parking. The reason for this is so that residents do not lose their parking spots and so that emergency vehicles can get through as needed. This makes parking for the track workout nearly impossible. It also makes our warm up and warm down extremely dangerous as there are tons of idiot drivers out there who do not notice a large group of people running. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy this "carnival"-I buy my tomato and basil plants there every year, in fact I'll be there tomorrow after work buying those plants. The problem is all of the portable rides that attract families. Tonight I was lucky and was able to find a spot pretty close to the track, but not everyone was so lucky.
Onto running. My workout was fair. Definitely could have been better, but upon some reflection, I need to accept it. I have not really been working on speed, I've been doing lots and lots of strength. I can run about a mile fast and then I am petered out. Tonight's workout was 3 x 1600 with an 800 jog. I purposely held back some on the first, but I took the brunt of the wind on the backstretch. The guy who I absolutely can not stand running with was there. He only runs with us from May 1 until the end of October. He makes so much noise and then races on every interval. This completely and totally defeats the purpose of what I am trying to do. Anyhow, even though I tried to not work too hard on the first interval, the rest of the workout was downhill. The miles were 6:05, 6:08 and 6:12. The second one felt terrible, the third one, although the slowest, felt stronger. As usual, I was able to keep my recoveries strong-about 7:15 pace. This is really an indication of the training that has been put in, I recover very fast. Most of the people at the track don't like to do workouts with me since I run the recoveries so much faster. My new shoes were much better tonight-the right one was tied looser so that hot spot didn't show up on the ball of my right foot.
Tomorrow is a busy afternoon. It's payday, so I have to run to the bank to cash my check. I'm going to a different branch, then picking up the wine that I won two weeks ago. While at the wine shop I have to pick up wine for Mother's Day dinner. I have to buy a ticket for the horse races that are the social thing to do on Sunday. I have to high tail it over to my bank and deposit my cash and then head up to the carnival to buy my tomatoes, basil, and maybe some bell peppers to plant. By the time I get home I will defintely be spent. My body definitely will appreciate the day off from running as well. Right now I attribute the tiredness to being a cumulative effect from all of this week.
Posted by Blondie at May 5, 2005 08:07 PM