Miles: 6
Time: 52:50
Pace: 8:48
Splits: 8:28, 9:16, 8:35, 8:41, 8:56, 8:52
NOTE TO SELF: WEAR YOUR FACEMASK!
Another really cold run today. It was cloudy, instead of sunny, so the 24 degrees felt a little colder. It was 12 degrees with wind chill facotred in... so ugh. Basically, I ran half a mile to the trail, up the trail 2 miles, froze my face off going against the wind, and turned around and ran 1.5 miles back to the trail, another 1.5 down the trail and then back, then the half mile back to my house. So I got a good three miles of running mask-less against the wind. My face seriously HURT when I got home because it was so cold. And then I couldn't talk right because my jaw was frozen in place. It sucked.
The run itself was okay. I prefer running in the afternoon, and I woke up at 9 and ran at 10 this morning, so I was slower because I hadn't really drank anything and I hadn't eaten anything yet. I just have more energy in the afternoon. I have even convinced my dad to hop on the running-in-the-afternoon bandwagon. :)
My knee sort of hurt for the last few miles, but only when I had to go up/down hills, really. Which is better than usual. The second mile was slow because I had to run up two big hills and dodge ice while going against the wind, and the fifth mile was slow because I had to go over the same HUGE patch of ice twice on the out and back and it was a pain (the last mile was slow for the same reason, but more because people don't put down ice melt, wtf).
Five miles tomorrow, and five miles sometime before we leave for Utah at 8:50 in the morning... woo hoo!
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Day Twenty-Four
Miles: 6 4
Time: 35:40
Pace: 8:55
Splits: n/a
So... my miles and pace for the last two days are inaccurate. Let me explain to you why.
Our indoor track has a tennis court inside, and the weird plastic walls for the tennis court lower down from the ceiling and hang in part of the track at the corners. Because of this, I just always run in lane 3. My friend Ali who runs track told me the track was 220 meters. But I measured it with one of those clicky-when-you-run-with-it things that measure distance and lane 3 is 230 meters. So yesterday, I ran 10,120 meters instead of my intended 9600. So I ran much faster than I thought I did. And today, I ran 6,670 meters instead of 6,400. Which would take about a minute off my time, and make my pace a lot faster. (You have no idea how hard all this math was just now. God, I'm out of practice.)
So now I have to go over all my distances on the track and revise them so they're accurate. Ugh.
But I cut my run 2 miles short and biked 4 miles on the stationary bikes because my legs were having a hard time. Nothing hurt, but I could tell I was really dehydrated because it was hard to keep myself going and I was really thirsty the whole time. I have been really thirsty all day, and I've been drinking water like it's my job. :(
But with the 4(+ change) miles on the track and the 4 miles on the bike, I feel like today was still a good workout. :)
Time: 35:40
Pace: 8:55
Splits: n/a
So... my miles and pace for the last two days are inaccurate. Let me explain to you why.
Our indoor track has a tennis court inside, and the weird plastic walls for the tennis court lower down from the ceiling and hang in part of the track at the corners. Because of this, I just always run in lane 3. My friend Ali who runs track told me the track was 220 meters. But I measured it with one of those clicky-when-you-run-with-it things that measure distance and lane 3 is 230 meters. So yesterday, I ran 10,120 meters instead of my intended 9600. So I ran much faster than I thought I did. And today, I ran 6,670 meters instead of 6,400. Which would take about a minute off my time, and make my pace a lot faster. (You have no idea how hard all this math was just now. God, I'm out of practice.)
So now I have to go over all my distances on the track and revise them so they're accurate. Ugh.
But I cut my run 2 miles short and biked 4 miles on the stationary bikes because my legs were having a hard time. Nothing hurt, but I could tell I was really dehydrated because it was hard to keep myself going and I was really thirsty the whole time. I have been really thirsty all day, and I've been drinking water like it's my job. :(
But with the 4(+ change) miles on the track and the 4 miles on the bike, I feel like today was still a good workout. :)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Day Twenty-Three
Miles: 6
Time: 52:41
Pace: 8:46
Splits: n/a
I DID IT! I ran 6 miles, and I ran it indoors. How, you might ask?
INDOOR TRACK.
44 laps around a 220 meter track. It wasn't that bad at all, either. My legs felt way better than they would have outside (had it not have been a blizzard outside, about 10 degrees without wind chill, and all the sidewalks were unshoveled). It worked out pretty well, actually; I'll probably run on the track again tomorrow. It was a really nice temperature in there because there are metal panels that open up during the summer that go right outside, so there were three walls that were cool and one that was warm. I was still all sweaty when I got done, but at least I was sweaty after 6 miles, instead of half a mile like I would have been on the treadmill!
And my legs didn't hurt much. I stopped halfway through and stretched out my right hams, then those felt good. And my left knee hurt for about a mile, and then loosened back up. Even though I ran 44 times around a circle, it felt much nicer than running out on snow and concrete! It's a good trade-off.
Then my roomie and I split a large pizza when I got back... so now I'm full and my legs are all, "we ran 6 miles! don't use us!" and stuff. Now I must study for finals and be awesome like that.
Time: 52:41
Pace: 8:46
Splits: n/a
I DID IT! I ran 6 miles, and I ran it indoors. How, you might ask?
INDOOR TRACK.
44 laps around a 220 meter track. It wasn't that bad at all, either. My legs felt way better than they would have outside (had it not have been a blizzard outside, about 10 degrees without wind chill, and all the sidewalks were unshoveled). It worked out pretty well, actually; I'll probably run on the track again tomorrow. It was a really nice temperature in there because there are metal panels that open up during the summer that go right outside, so there were three walls that were cool and one that was warm. I was still all sweaty when I got done, but at least I was sweaty after 6 miles, instead of half a mile like I would have been on the treadmill!
And my legs didn't hurt much. I stopped halfway through and stretched out my right hams, then those felt good. And my left knee hurt for about a mile, and then loosened back up. Even though I ran 44 times around a circle, it felt much nicer than running out on snow and concrete! It's a good trade-off.
Then my roomie and I split a large pizza when I got back... so now I'm full and my legs are all, "we ran 6 miles! don't use us!" and stuff. Now I must study for finals and be awesome like that.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Day Eighteen
Miles: 6
Time: 49:33
Pace: 8:15
Splits: 7:50, 8:14, 8:25, 8:29, 8:20, 8:11
As nice as the weather was yesterday, today's weather was shitty. Yesterday: 55 degrees, sunny, slightly breezy. Today: 35 degrees, cloudy, extremely windy (in about three directions). Yesterday: Ran in shorts and a t-shirt. Today: Ran in leggings, shorts, t-shirt and jacket (with the sleeves pulled down the WHOLE TIME which basically never happens!). Yesterday: Comfortable. Today: Very much not.
It was a decent run, though. The first 3-3.5 miles I had basically no traffic stops, which was really nice. I just kept going and going (sort of). But everything else the way back to campus had me stopping every couple minutes because I was getting back into the busy sections of downtown (I went down on the trail on the first half), and that sort of sucked.
Besides the first split, all my other miles were really consistent, so I guess I am getting better at that. :) My knee wasn't too bad today. I had weird tightness there and along the side of my right calf, but both of them sort of went away. My knee is a little sore still, but whatevs. I am just getting used to favoring it while going up stairs (because I go up and down 2-3 flights of stairs only about 10 times a day).
Now to shower/warm up and do HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!! Oh finals, how I love to loathe you....
Time: 49:33
Pace: 8:15
Splits: 7:50, 8:14, 8:25, 8:29, 8:20, 8:11
As nice as the weather was yesterday, today's weather was shitty. Yesterday: 55 degrees, sunny, slightly breezy. Today: 35 degrees, cloudy, extremely windy (in about three directions). Yesterday: Ran in shorts and a t-shirt. Today: Ran in leggings, shorts, t-shirt and jacket (with the sleeves pulled down the WHOLE TIME which basically never happens!). Yesterday: Comfortable. Today: Very much not.
It was a decent run, though. The first 3-3.5 miles I had basically no traffic stops, which was really nice. I just kept going and going (sort of). But everything else the way back to campus had me stopping every couple minutes because I was getting back into the busy sections of downtown (I went down on the trail on the first half), and that sort of sucked.
Besides the first split, all my other miles were really consistent, so I guess I am getting better at that. :) My knee wasn't too bad today. I had weird tightness there and along the side of my right calf, but both of them sort of went away. My knee is a little sore still, but whatevs. I am just getting used to favoring it while going up stairs (because I go up and down 2-3 flights of stairs only about 10 times a day).
Now to shower/warm up and do HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!! Oh finals, how I love to loathe you....
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Day Nine
Miles: 6
Time: 48:46
Pace: 8:07
Splits: 7:33, 8:12, 8:26, 8:13, 8:15, 8:03
I have no idea how that first mile ended up being so much faster than the rest of my miles. Oops. So much for consistent mile splits... :/
I mapped out my run about 15 minutes before I left, and decided I wanted to go down to the trail to get to the other side of the river and run around down there a bit. I got to Czech Village and went out past there. I've never been down there before (for anything) so it was fun to look around. I managed to map a quarter-mile long hill into my route though... so double oops. (It was soon remedied by a nice downhill about a tenth of a mile afterwards.) At the bottom of the hill, these two old people waved me over and asked me if I knew where the fire that morning had been. I said I didn't know there had been a fire (after asking what they had said about four times because I suck at hearing/they had about five teeth between the two of them). Then they left and I continued on.
It was mostly cloudy outside, probably about two miles of my run were sunny-ish though. It was around 50 degrees with a slight breeze. It was pretty much perfect for running. It kept my legs cold (ran in shorts today... my leggings were bugging me yesterday) but my arms got hot in a long-sleeve tech shirt. I didn't even need a cold weather hat today, which was nice.
I had to stop about 5 times, though. Twice because my shin was bugging me (it stopped bugging around 3 miles, though, and that was good) but the rest were all traffic-related stops... which were just annoying. I felt really good today; my knee didn't even really bug me. It started to get tight around 5.3 miles, but then didn't get worse the rest of the last leg of the run. That made me pretty happy. (I iced my knee anyway... now it is red and frozen.)
See my route on my arm!
Time: 48:46
Pace: 8:07
Splits: 7:33, 8:12, 8:26, 8:13, 8:15, 8:03
I have no idea how that first mile ended up being so much faster than the rest of my miles. Oops. So much for consistent mile splits... :/
I mapped out my run about 15 minutes before I left, and decided I wanted to go down to the trail to get to the other side of the river and run around down there a bit. I got to Czech Village and went out past there. I've never been down there before (for anything) so it was fun to look around. I managed to map a quarter-mile long hill into my route though... so double oops. (It was soon remedied by a nice downhill about a tenth of a mile afterwards.) At the bottom of the hill, these two old people waved me over and asked me if I knew where the fire that morning had been. I said I didn't know there had been a fire (after asking what they had said about four times because I suck at hearing/they had about five teeth between the two of them). Then they left and I continued on.
It was mostly cloudy outside, probably about two miles of my run were sunny-ish though. It was around 50 degrees with a slight breeze. It was pretty much perfect for running. It kept my legs cold (ran in shorts today... my leggings were bugging me yesterday) but my arms got hot in a long-sleeve tech shirt. I didn't even need a cold weather hat today, which was nice.
I had to stop about 5 times, though. Twice because my shin was bugging me (it stopped bugging around 3 miles, though, and that was good) but the rest were all traffic-related stops... which were just annoying. I felt really good today; my knee didn't even really bug me. It started to get tight around 5.3 miles, but then didn't get worse the rest of the last leg of the run. That made me pretty happy. (I iced my knee anyway... now it is red and frozen.)
See my route on my arm!
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