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April 25, 2006
Yet Another Disgusting Experience
Since the mileage phase of my season is wrapping up, it must mean that getting up and running is getting easier. It isn't all that hard to get out of bed and get out on the road in 13 minutes anymore. The main problem with getting out the door so quickly is, um, well, some things just have not worked themselves out that quickly.
That was the case this morning, as it is on three quarters of my morning runs. It was really nice running weather this morning. It seemed that there were more cars out for the same time of day than usual. I know that I was under a minute later than normal since I made a last minute decision that it was sunny enough to merit sunglasses, so that required running back into the house to get them. It took a bit longer than normal to cross the major road to get to the development that is the course for my morning route. In all, it felt smoother than last night. Morning running is much easier when it is an hour that the human body is supposed to be awake. Since the above mentioned problem was present, no extra loop was added on this morning.
This afternoon was more treadmill running. They had to collect nine data points-three different levels of wetness at three different levels of exertion. It actually ended up being 18 data points, since we did those nine with just the bra and with extra compression. It ended up being quite a bit of treadmill running, most of it pretty fast. The first set was 2 by 10 minutes broken down into six minutes at 7:30 pace, 2 minutes at 6:40 pace, and 2 minutes at 6:00 pace. After that it was 4 by 6 minutes broken into two minutes at each of those paces. They commented about how sweaty I was after the first set of six minute collections. Of course you're going to be sweaty when you're running fast on a treadmill in a room that is set at a temperature that is supposed to be comfortable for work, not for working out.
Since that wasn't as much running as I had planned, I drove about a mile down the road to a better area to finish my run. I had orginially thought that I would take some of J's runners on a distance run, but they have Penn Relays this week and weren't doing a long run. It worked out just fine since I was later than normal and they were a good way through practice by the time I showed up. I went out on the same loop that we've been taking the kids on, but it was much faster than with the kids. It usually takes about 16:30 to get to the top of the development with the kids, but without them it only took 14 minutes. As the run went along, I must have gotten faster, since it only took 13 minutes to get back. This is where some obsessiveness kicked in, 31 minutes gave me a total of 75 minutes this afternoon, so that extra minute was necessary.
Before leaving the office/lab, I met one of the other guys working on this product. I was introduced as "the one with the heart". Apparently they are quite impressed with my data. Something about where my heart rate is at certain paces and how quickly it drops when activity stops. They are also extremely impressed by my resting heart rate. I guess this is supposed to be complimentary, but it is kind of funny being known as the one with the heart.
Posted by Blondie at April 25, 2006 08:26 PM
Comments
"The one with the heart" - I like that! I kind of imagine you to have a big heart in real life (i.e. as in a really cool, compassionate woman).
Posted by: bridget at April 25, 2006 10:09 PM