Degrees of Wet
Welcome to waterworld. Anyone training in New England right now knows what I am talking about. It has been various degrees of rain since Tuesday. Which matches the various degrees of wetness my trainers are in right now.
Yesterday the trainers were soaked. A little track workout at Bentley in a casual monsoon. I thought Tuesday "At least we get the bad one out of the way early." Ha! Yesterday was just as bad. I decided to wear trainers and do it based on effort. The workout was 3 x 2k and 4 x 400. Here are the splits from my watch.
2k 6:07
4.50 rest
2k 6:11
3:46 rest
2k 6:09
3:42 rest
400 67.56
1:28 rest
400 67.88
1:32 rest
400 68.18
1:29 rest
400 67.17
I tried to keep moving the whole time with brisk active rest just to stay warm. I could feel the shoes filling up with water through the first two 3k segments and then it was just total saturation. I am not sure if this is a good workout or a bad workout. It is what it is and I am looking at it as 4.75 miles of hard work on the track. The conditions were not tailored for a dead on times or consistant laps. The rain went from driving to misting to steady back to driving. All during the workout. I am just praying for bad weather on the first meet of the spring. I will be well prepared for it.
This morning the the trainers were drenched. I had to get the run done in the morning because we headed to Holliston for Mother's day. Surprise surprise it was raining. I was testing my brand spanking new black New Balance Verse jacket which probably saved my life from hypothermia. I unfortunately got a little turned around and confused on my long run through ARWR trying to avoid some flooded trails. So my casual 1:40 minute run turned into 2:10. A lot of slogging through some pretty sloppy terrain.
Here is the picture of the workbench I built on Friday. This should add a lot of efficiency to the projects around the house. I will no longer have to search for 5 minutes everytime I need a tool. It was getting very tedious. Should have been the first thing I did.
That's all I got