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September 14, 2005
Recovery Week
Monday's Easy 7 mile Mudville Loop
On Monday afternoon I ran a very easy seven mile loop with the runners on the cross country team. We did the Mud City Loop officially but I always mix up the name and call it Mudville Loop, I guess I like the name of that better. The loop is one street that is a horse shoe shape and it is connected by a mile long hill. We started with a slow crawl up the hill and then began the loop. I ran a very pedestrien pace and felt ok except that my quads were very sore. I talked with the students the entire time so the run went by very fast. The loop has beautiful mountain views the entire time and is entirely dirt roads. The houses on the street are about a half mile apart and every other house or property is a huge farm.
Before I forgot.. my splits for the marathon are below. My second half is so inconsistent. I don't know how to interpret them. Mark ran the half marathon in a time of 1:12:01. He was just about 14 seconds from his pr and felt really good. He is training for the NY marathon and wanted to run his marathon pace for the half marathon. He looked at his splits and noticed that his final miles were off. We both wondered if the last few miles were long and some of the inner miles were short. Either way I am glad to get the 26 miles of running on my legs and I hope the 50k feels easy because of this experience.
mile 1: 6:47
mile 2: 7:03
mile 3: 6:59
mile 4: 7:01
mile 5: 7:14
mile 6: 7:14
mile 7: 7:31
mile 8: 7:18
mile 9: 7:26
mile 10: 8:24 uphill mile
mile 11: 10:01 yikes very uphill steep mile up to Trapps Family Lodge
mile 12: 7:31 all downhill, stopped to go to the bathroom
mile 13: 6:38
mile 14: 7:52
mile 15: 7:42
mile 16: 8:08
mile 17: 7:50
mile 18: 7:16 I finally saw someone and caught up to two people
mile 19: 8:15 stopped to go to the bathroom again!
mile 20: 7:31
mile 21: 8:27 not sure why I ran a minute slower?
mile 22: 8:06
mile 23: 7:59
mile 24: 7:49
mile 25: 9:09 uphill, bike path.. but not that uphill?
mile 26 and .2: 10:01
Total Time: 3:23.46
All in all I made my goal of between 3:20 and 3:25. I guess I just did not want it to feel as hard as it felt. Crazy, it is a marathon after all.
Tuesday's Double Run
On Tuesday morning I ran an easy four miles around the lake when I woke up in the morning. It was foggy and warm. The fog was rising off the lake as the sun was rising. It was before 7 and it is was very relaxing and serene. I ran very very easy. My legs were still feeling pretty stiff.
On Tuesday afternoon I ran in one of my all time favorite VT places to run so far. I ran on the ski trails at the Trapps Family Lodge. They were so beautiful. The trails are on the top of one of the mountain ridges and are wide fire type roads that are a combination of dirt and grass. I ran four to five miles after the high school races were over. I thought I'd feel horrible because I felt very bad racing around to cheer for the athletes. However, once I started running on the trails I felt great and wished I had more time to run. I was able to open it up at the end and I did not even remember that I had run a marathon two days earlier.
Wednesday's Very Easy Day
Today I ran an easy four miles around the lake again this morning. I was discouraged to find myself still sore and slow. I did not even time my run and just enjoyed the scenary. I was hoping to do a run in the evening but when my department meeting ran long and I missed practice I decided to use today as an easy day with the hope that tomorrow morning I'll be feeling better.
Posted by mary at September 14, 2005 10:10 PM
Comments
I can't wait to run on the Trapp trails...They sound amazing!
Liz
Posted by: at September 15, 2005 4:56 PM
I'm amazed at how quickly you have recovered from the effort on Sunday. You made the right choice to just enjoy the scenery when your body was tired.
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at September 15, 2005 8:50 PM