We’ll just have to see how this week works out. I was up ‘early’ today for doing a run late in the afternoon. I finally got my session started at about 6:00 PM, only to be stopped within the block I live in to receive a package by UPS. Forgot that I had even purchased the books. Oh well. Restarted and got on my way.
Today was a broken up session compared to Sunday’s run. It started with a fairly short run to get the blood moving, then a walk of about the same length, followed by a long run of about 10 min, (I have not replayed any of the tracks to see what the timings are for intervals) followed by another walk I’m going to say both walks were about 3 min, as was the first run. There was a third run as well, I’m guessing again 3 min. Followed by a walk out.
The midel run I completed without any problems. I am presuming this was because while the altitude changed during the route, there were no really steep hills involved. Just some gentle rolling.
The first run I got as far as I could go, actually to the top of the hill I had run up, broke to a walk for few seconds to recover, started running again, and within seconds the transition tones kicked in.
On the third run I think I was about half way through, again up a hill, but not quite as steep, took a 10 second walking break, and went back to running, and completed the run.
Experienced a few scattered raindrops here and there, nothing significant.
Odd sidenote, I had switched loads in the laundry before I left, planning on quickly switching loads again when I got back. I had a meeting to attend tonight, and I was a little pressed for time (schedule reminder note, plan to do the runs around 4, not 5 in the future when running before work. if not earlier) In fact I was pretty sure that I was not going to get the final load out of the drier. So I walked into the laundry room before I got to my apartment, turned on the light, and saw that I had not pushed the coin tray in to get the dryier started. So I pulled all the stuff out of the washer, added it to the stuff in the dryer, and kicked it off. I need to be up at 8, or a bit earlier in the morning anyway, so what wasn’t dry when I got home from the meeting, I will run through another cycle in the morning. (No use of the laundry room before 8 am, or after 10 pm.)
I’m guessing that for really long runs, I’m going to really have to work on those up hill runs. At the moment they seem to be the killers for me. Running along a level path, or along a lake side path, is probably not going to be a problem, even for 20 or 30 min runs. It’s getting to the top of the hill that I suspect will keep hurting me.
I may have lost a few choce words in this reverie, as it’s been about 6 hours since I did the run, but that’s what I get for setting up an event of this type so close to doing something where I won’t have the opportunity to blog. We’ll see if Thursday goes better or not.
Contemplating driving to a lakeside path for Thursday, just to see if my observations regarding hills has any validity. Just have to find some way to tag a reasonable turn–around point. I don’t mind being 5 to 10 min away, walking when I’m done, but if I’ve just completed a 30 min series of intervals, with a 5 min warm-up walk, that strikes me as a bad place to walk back from. Ok, just reviewed the schedule, Thursday should be a 5 min walk, 10 min jog, 3 min walk, 10 min jog, ‘done’. Based on that if I turn around at the end of the first 10 min jog, I should be about 2 min away from my starting point if I run at a steady pace. I doubt that the steady pace is likely, but I should still be less than 10 min away. Which works for me. To Medicine Lake it is. (Not sure what to do about Saturday’s walk… Cross that bridge when I get to it I guess.)
