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October 24, 2005
I better try and make this short because I'm exhausted. We got up early both Saturday and Sunday, so now I'm paying for it. At this point, I don't think we have any plans for this weekend.
On Saturday, we went to Connecticut to close the beach cottage. We went early enough that I couldn't do my workout before. It was a very cold and wet day. During my 18 minute warmup, it wasn't that bad. Things got worse after my first hill. I did the same workout as last weekend (3 sets of 30 second hills- easy; medium; hard). First, it started raining harder and second, the hill wasn't steep enough. I was doing a different hill than last week because it was getting dark and I didn't have time to drive to the other one. I tried to compensate by running the hills harder and then running back down faster than I would have on the steeper hill. Also, I went right into my 18 minute cooldown without resting. All that probably made no difference (except for increasing my risk of injury), but it made me feel better.
On Sunday, I was at Franklin Park for the Mayor's Cup. I got to see Alison, P., and Mary, and meet Megan for the first time. I was freezing since I was in running clothes, but it was too difficult to run in major mud and watch my husband race at the same time. I ran for 45 minutes after his race with Sarah, who I met through Mary. Franklin Park is definitely a favorite place to run. There is so much energy there, especially at meets because everyone is doing their warmup or cooldown.
Today was my usual day off. This week starts an increase in mileage from the past couple of weeks. I'm still resting a little bit, but my runs will be more like 60 minutes. With Daylight Savings Time this weekend, I'm a little nervous about what this will mean for my winter running. I was used to running in the dark everyday in Northampton, but there aren't any streetlights here. I don't think my reflective vest and 2 blinking lights are going to cut it. I may have to invest in a headlamp too. I'm going to be one cool runner.
Posted by Caitlin at October 24, 2005 10:50 PM
Comments
You may be cool to me, but I think you are increasing your chances of getting snow balls thrown at you by the local youth gangs.
Posted by: Brad at October 26, 2005 08:19 PM