Still in the teens and it's the end of March. A recent knee injury has laid me up for 3 weeks; but I've been resting for Spring Break.
When I pitched going to Sarasota to D12 over Spring Break it came with a deal to run every day and practice soccer. She thought about it for a second and said 'OK'. I know I'm not supposed to bribe her into running, but it's working.
Saturday, first day of Spring Break, is spent home in Minneapolis. Although the day before is in the teens, this day gets to the upper 30's. GF takes D12 for a 6 mile run. D12 runs GF into the ground running 47 minutes for 6.1. GF is a little grumpy.
Sunday is a travel day, and GFs usual day off.
Monday - A run on the Sarasota Siesta Key beach. Hard packed sand and a flat beach is about the best beach running you could find. Running at 10am when the temperature is climbing into the upper 70s after having come from the teens is a bit of a shocker. Me and D10 run 3 miles. My knee starts to bother me in the last mile. D12 is supposed to be running with GF, but is a whimpering mess. She puts in about 4 lazy, complaint filled, miles. GF does her usual 6.
Tuesday - Back to the beach. GF likes the beach. D12 doesn't like the beach. She runs about 3. GF runs usual 6 and is annoyed with my daughter. Me and D10 sit in lounge chairs.
D12 and I have a short heart to heart. As a parent, you know that's a one-way conversation, right? We talk about controlling the things you can control - attitude and effort. And we talk about how negative talk (COMPLAINING) makes you feel even worse. It's a downward spiral.
Wednesday - We find a state park about 5 miles away and go there with high hopes of trails. Apparently they don't make woodsy trails in Florida because the gators would like them. We ran on the road that split the state park. I ran a pretty strong 4. GF and D12 stopped a couple times to keep me motivated. GF and D12 ran almost 7. D12 is getting some mojo back. No complaining today. Plenty of compliments from Dad.
Thursday - We sought out a middle school to run on the track for a little more variety. Half-way to the school we remembered it's spring break for us, but school is in session in Florida. So we felt a little sneaky running from the filling parking lot to the track behind the school. D12 ran 2 brisk, 43 second 200M as a warm-up for an all-out 400M. I wanted a solid time to be able to project her best possible mile time. Then 4 more 200M at 42-43 seconds. She did the 400M in 74, which I wasn't overly impressed with. The mile calculation we were using is 400M x 4.4 + 6 seconds to get a mile time. By that math her best possible mile with 74 second speed could be 5:30. We'll have to work on that speed.
I ran 4 x 200M at 42-43 seconds. I could feel my back getting stiffer so I called it a workout.
GF ran a PR for 6 miles in 42 something. WOW! 7:24 per mile or something like that.
Friday - GF and D12 started on the beach but took to the Siesta Key streets for another 7 miler. D10 and I lounged on the beach. D12 recovered face-down on a blanket for the next 2 hours. She's a bit tuckered. But, she didn't whine. Broke the news later in the day that we were going to run a 5K on the beach Saturday morning. No complaints.
Saturday - We all went to the beach for the races including my parents (the Ps love sports and especially grandkid sports). D10 entered the 1 mile beach fun run and defied her own and her Dad's expectations and finished 3rd overall and 1st female, beating more than 100 other kids and parents running with their kids, and brought home a monster medal. Similar to her sister in the fall cross-country race, she got confused about the finish and stopped by her grandfather instead of crossing the finish line. Now she has to stop teasing her sister about chasing the pacing golf-cart off the course. I timed her in 8:12. I ran with her for about 200M after the half mile and she was flying! She hit a bump at the 3/4 mark or she would have broken 8 minutes!
The 5K race was also an out and back beach race. I tried to get GF and D12 to warm-up so they would be comfortable running a fast first mile, but they don't like to warm-up. All D12 got out of it was me telling her to run a fast first mile. That's NOT what I meant! I always talk to her about an even paced race. Don't make the race hard until after the half-way point at least. She heard fast first mile. And she did a fast first mile. Didn't get a time on it, but was probably well under 7 minutes.
We were all over-zealous. I went out too fast too. I don't know what I was thinking. I've run 4 miles in the last month. 8:03 first mile. Too fast. Bonk! I finished in 27:18. Not awful, but better pacing would have been probably a minute faster.
GF went out too fast too; slower than D12, but she says she paid for it too. She finished in 22:24, finishing 2nd in her age group - which will go unnamed. Just OUTSTANDING. She got a huge medal.
D12 bonked hard running the last two miles in about 1:30 minutes per mile slower than the first one, but she still managed to hold on for the win at 24:42. She went home with a huge medal.
Grandparents got the opportunity to gush on the grandkids and make excuses for me.
I was the only one from the clan to go home without a medal, but I had the biggest smile.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
#11 - Back to the grind
October and November came and so did my annual bronchial infection. That combined with working out of town and I quickly got out of shape. I am very disappointed in myself.
Finally in December I went to the doctor and got some antibiotics and started to feel better.
A 7 day cruise and we ran 5 days, 45 minutes or more on the treadmill. Although my pace was not high I was pleased I could still run 45 minutes.
But, I feel my fitness slipping. Every hockey game (I play once per week) is getting tougher and tougher. It is taking me longer to recover on the bench. And, I am more sore in the days following the game.
The weather up here in Minnesota is brutal; the worst I've seen since coming to Minnesota in 1999. Typical mornings start out -5 to sometimes -10 or even -18. And, the high is often in the single digits. Not running weather!
Although I live on the famous parkway in Minneapolis, I can't get myself to step out the door and run but once or twice in January. I look on in awe as I see others braving the -10* weather and don't know how, or why, they do it.
By the end of January I am frustrated with my fitness and mention in passing to my GF that I am considering buying a treadmill or getting a gym membership. She jumps all over that, as she asks me almost everyday to go with her to LA Fitness; but the $20 guest fee has kept me away.
By the end of the day I am signed up at LA Fitness on a family plan; only $29 per month. Not bad. I was thinking it'd be $100 a month or more. If I'd known it was that cheap I would've signed up sooner.
So, I'm signed up now, and 'luckily' I am off assignment as a technology consultant, so I go to the gym 7 out of 10 days.
Treadmill running is tough. First day 45 minutes at a pace ranging from 5.4 to 6.0 mph. Felt great. This is going to be GREAT! Continued to do well for a couple days, and then the boredom set in. Man this is tough. Only did 23 minutes yesterday. I was cruising along great, got to 20 minutes and then like a switch my mind didn't want to run anymore. What is that?
I talked to GF about that and it happens to her too. So she says; the woman runs 6 to 7 miles 6 days per week. She says that's why she changes her music almost every day.
Off to downloading new music and even a book on tape - I mean an audio book.
Finally in December I went to the doctor and got some antibiotics and started to feel better.
A 7 day cruise and we ran 5 days, 45 minutes or more on the treadmill. Although my pace was not high I was pleased I could still run 45 minutes.
But, I feel my fitness slipping. Every hockey game (I play once per week) is getting tougher and tougher. It is taking me longer to recover on the bench. And, I am more sore in the days following the game.
The weather up here in Minnesota is brutal; the worst I've seen since coming to Minnesota in 1999. Typical mornings start out -5 to sometimes -10 or even -18. And, the high is often in the single digits. Not running weather!
Although I live on the famous parkway in Minneapolis, I can't get myself to step out the door and run but once or twice in January. I look on in awe as I see others braving the -10* weather and don't know how, or why, they do it.
By the end of January I am frustrated with my fitness and mention in passing to my GF that I am considering buying a treadmill or getting a gym membership. She jumps all over that, as she asks me almost everyday to go with her to LA Fitness; but the $20 guest fee has kept me away.
By the end of the day I am signed up at LA Fitness on a family plan; only $29 per month. Not bad. I was thinking it'd be $100 a month or more. If I'd known it was that cheap I would've signed up sooner.
So, I'm signed up now, and 'luckily' I am off assignment as a technology consultant, so I go to the gym 7 out of 10 days.
Treadmill running is tough. First day 45 minutes at a pace ranging from 5.4 to 6.0 mph. Felt great. This is going to be GREAT! Continued to do well for a couple days, and then the boredom set in. Man this is tough. Only did 23 minutes yesterday. I was cruising along great, got to 20 minutes and then like a switch my mind didn't want to run anymore. What is that?
I talked to GF about that and it happens to her too. So she says; the woman runs 6 to 7 miles 6 days per week. She says that's why she changes her music almost every day.
Off to downloading new music and even a book on tape - I mean an audio book.
#10 - Last race of the season
So much for commitment, I got away from the blogging for awhile and didn't even finish the season.
Well D12 ran in her first JV ("B) 4K race in the state Sectional meet in October. The day was cool, clear, and the course, a golf course, was fast.
My coaching, stay with your team's top JV runner until 1.5 miles and then if you feel good make a move.
What'd she do?
Took off like a crazy person and was in the top 15 at the half-mile mark, a good 100 meters in front of her teammates. Yikes! She went through the mile in 6:25 and 12th place and looked ridiculously comfortable.
I was running all over the course, 1/2 mile, 1 mile, 1.5 mile, and 2 mile markers, though because I was filming on my iPhone I missed some times.
At 1.5 miles and about 200 meters from me I see her surge to catch up with 2 girls from a rival school that had 5 girls in the top 7. The surge was too hard and by the time she reached me she was feeling the affects.
The next half-mile was tough for her and she fell back, and her teammates, who were running a much more even race caught her just past the 2 mile marker. Seeing her teammates catch her brought her out of her mid-race funk and she re-engaged for the final 600 meters tracking down several competitors in front of her and finishing 7th overall, and 1st for her team.
Her time of 16:24 for 4K was simply awesome. A 6:34 average! 1st 7th grader to cross the line! Although there would be two 7th graders in the Varsity race that would beat her time. And, after the Varsity times were collated she finished 7th for the team and earned a spot by time on the State Team.
In the end the coach decided to take the senior captain to the State Meet instead; a good decision on his part, rewarding the athlete that spent 6 years in his program. The most impressive part was that the coach met with my daughter and explained his reasoning. He's a good coach, but maybe even a better person.
We went to the State Meet to cheer on the team and they finished 10th, about what was expected, led by a top 20 finish of their 8th grade star. The coach is hopeful that his fleet of 7th graders will make the transition to varsity next year and move the team up in the top 5.
Well D12 ran in her first JV ("B) 4K race in the state Sectional meet in October. The day was cool, clear, and the course, a golf course, was fast.
My coaching, stay with your team's top JV runner until 1.5 miles and then if you feel good make a move.
What'd she do?
Took off like a crazy person and was in the top 15 at the half-mile mark, a good 100 meters in front of her teammates. Yikes! She went through the mile in 6:25 and 12th place and looked ridiculously comfortable.
I was running all over the course, 1/2 mile, 1 mile, 1.5 mile, and 2 mile markers, though because I was filming on my iPhone I missed some times.
At 1.5 miles and about 200 meters from me I see her surge to catch up with 2 girls from a rival school that had 5 girls in the top 7. The surge was too hard and by the time she reached me she was feeling the affects.
The next half-mile was tough for her and she fell back, and her teammates, who were running a much more even race caught her just past the 2 mile marker. Seeing her teammates catch her brought her out of her mid-race funk and she re-engaged for the final 600 meters tracking down several competitors in front of her and finishing 7th overall, and 1st for her team.
Her time of 16:24 for 4K was simply awesome. A 6:34 average! 1st 7th grader to cross the line! Although there would be two 7th graders in the Varsity race that would beat her time. And, after the Varsity times were collated she finished 7th for the team and earned a spot by time on the State Team.
In the end the coach decided to take the senior captain to the State Meet instead; a good decision on his part, rewarding the athlete that spent 6 years in his program. The most impressive part was that the coach met with my daughter and explained his reasoning. He's a good coach, but maybe even a better person.
We went to the State Meet to cheer on the team and they finished 10th, about what was expected, led by a top 20 finish of their 8th grade star. The coach is hopeful that his fleet of 7th graders will make the transition to varsity next year and move the team up in the top 5.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
#9 - Daughter's third race ... and second win
Another huge meet. 24 schools participating. My 7th grade daughter again ran in the 'C' level 2 mile event. She has a school friend that runs and consistently beats her in gym class but is on a CC team for a different high school so that had yet to race each other, until today.
My daughter is a pretty good kid so she expressed outrage when I asked her if there was any trash talking going on at school. "No! But, I want to beat her." I guess we can all live without the trash talking as long as we have the competitive attitude.
The race went off in what is now a familiar pattern with the group of 6 runners from my daughter's team all together and near the front (top 10) of a 255 person train at the half mile mark. The leaders had 20 yards, and the leader was her frienemy from school.
Dad's advice was simple. "You guys look great! Stay relaxed." I guess my daughter interpreted that to mean put on a ridiculous surge and catch the leaders right now because when we saw her again only 400 meters later she had caught the leaders and her friend and taken the lead.
I was worried for her, taking the lead so early. And, her shoe laces were untied. Uggh. They went through the mile in 6:35 her fastest first mile to date by more than 20 seconds. I had more concern that she might blowup. But when she came by me at 1 1/4 she looked great. Relaxed. Not breathing hard. Under no duress. In control.
I didn't get to see her for the next 1/2 mile but she maintained her lead and then extended it on a downhill with a 1/4 mile to go. From there she cruised home in her now trademark shuffle, not even bothering to sprint at the end. I'd liked to have seen her sprint home. I think all the fans would have liked that too. But she seems determined to run only as hard as she has to.
She finished in a time of 13:25, so her second mile was 6:50, a positive :20 second split, reversing the :20 second negative split from last week. I think she had more in her.
My daughter's neighbor, O, passed the frienemy with a terrific kick in the final straight to get second place. The rest of her team finished 4th, 5th and 9th for 21 points and first place. Rival Edina was in second but again their best 7th graders were running up at the JV 'B' level in this meet.
Apparently TJ tried to talk to her friend a bit when she caught her in the race, but "she didn't even look at me". I think that's hilarious because she was doing it to be friendly not psych out her friend and opponent. I tried to explain to her later that people do that as a psychological ploy to break the other person's will and she responded, "That's just mean. I was just saying 'Hi'."
One of the assistant coaches ambled over to have a chat. She was just shaking her head that TJ is winning these races and said "She doesn't even like to run. She's been asking me (the coach) when will Cross Country be over." Yeah, it's sad. And frustrating.
I keep hoping winning will make her like it more. But, there's no ball, or puck.
My daughter is a pretty good kid so she expressed outrage when I asked her if there was any trash talking going on at school. "No! But, I want to beat her." I guess we can all live without the trash talking as long as we have the competitive attitude.
The race went off in what is now a familiar pattern with the group of 6 runners from my daughter's team all together and near the front (top 10) of a 255 person train at the half mile mark. The leaders had 20 yards, and the leader was her frienemy from school.
Dad's advice was simple. "You guys look great! Stay relaxed." I guess my daughter interpreted that to mean put on a ridiculous surge and catch the leaders right now because when we saw her again only 400 meters later she had caught the leaders and her friend and taken the lead.
I was worried for her, taking the lead so early. And, her shoe laces were untied. Uggh. They went through the mile in 6:35 her fastest first mile to date by more than 20 seconds. I had more concern that she might blowup. But when she came by me at 1 1/4 she looked great. Relaxed. Not breathing hard. Under no duress. In control.
I didn't get to see her for the next 1/2 mile but she maintained her lead and then extended it on a downhill with a 1/4 mile to go. From there she cruised home in her now trademark shuffle, not even bothering to sprint at the end. I'd liked to have seen her sprint home. I think all the fans would have liked that too. But she seems determined to run only as hard as she has to.
She finished in a time of 13:25, so her second mile was 6:50, a positive :20 second split, reversing the :20 second negative split from last week. I think she had more in her.
My daughter's neighbor, O, passed the frienemy with a terrific kick in the final straight to get second place. The rest of her team finished 4th, 5th and 9th for 21 points and first place. Rival Edina was in second but again their best 7th graders were running up at the JV 'B' level in this meet.
Apparently TJ tried to talk to her friend a bit when she caught her in the race, but "she didn't even look at me". I think that's hilarious because she was doing it to be friendly not psych out her friend and opponent. I tried to explain to her later that people do that as a psychological ploy to break the other person's will and she responded, "That's just mean. I was just saying 'Hi'."
One of the assistant coaches ambled over to have a chat. She was just shaking her head that TJ is winning these races and said "She doesn't even like to run. She's been asking me (the coach) when will Cross Country be over." Yeah, it's sad. And frustrating.
I keep hoping winning will make her like it more. But, there's no ball, or puck.
Monday, September 23, 2013
#8 - Running - Post Top Mileage Week
Now that she's won D1 should be enthused and motivated to go running with dad right? NOT.
Couldn't get her moving on Saturday, but did manage to get her out on Sunday for a 6 mile run on a trail that runs along the Mississippi river. As expected, not without lots of whining. Not fun.
Monday - Ran a strong 7 miles, to Lake Harriet and back in an hour.
Wednesday - Ran only 4 in the morning. Felt sluggish and just wanted to lie down again. May be related to taking Advil PM to get to sleep at night. Got motivated to run again in the afternoon and ran 6.5 in 58 minutes. That's over 10 miles in one day; I feel pretty good.
Or, I did, for an hour or two, and then it seriously caught up to me. I got cramps in my hamstrings while doing a soccer clinic in the evening, and the next day I couldn't move.
Day off on Thursday. And then an easy 3 on Friday to recover. Not feeling good.
Only 30 miles for the week. After last week's 40 miles that was a little deflating.
Not feeling well, and took Saturday and Sunday off.
3 miles Monday morning slow was discouraging, but I came back in the afternoon and ran hard with G for 4 miles. Did a similar two-a-day on Wednesday with a poor morning run followed up with a short quick run with G in the evening.
Again 30 miles for the week. And there were a lot of discouraging miles in there.
At one point in August and early September I had run 20 out of 21 days. I didn't run 4 out of my last 14.
But, I ran a brisk 6 on Friday September 20, in the woods and I'm starting to feel better.
Looking at my mileage I'm at 99 for the month and should easily clear 125. Although I haven't been keeping track until recently, I'm sure that's my largest month by at least 30 miles. So, I need to give myself a break and let my body adjust to the increased mileage.
Couldn't get her moving on Saturday, but did manage to get her out on Sunday for a 6 mile run on a trail that runs along the Mississippi river. As expected, not without lots of whining. Not fun.
Monday - Ran a strong 7 miles, to Lake Harriet and back in an hour.
Wednesday - Ran only 4 in the morning. Felt sluggish and just wanted to lie down again. May be related to taking Advil PM to get to sleep at night. Got motivated to run again in the afternoon and ran 6.5 in 58 minutes. That's over 10 miles in one day; I feel pretty good.
Or, I did, for an hour or two, and then it seriously caught up to me. I got cramps in my hamstrings while doing a soccer clinic in the evening, and the next day I couldn't move.
Day off on Thursday. And then an easy 3 on Friday to recover. Not feeling good.
Only 30 miles for the week. After last week's 40 miles that was a little deflating.
Not feeling well, and took Saturday and Sunday off.
3 miles Monday morning slow was discouraging, but I came back in the afternoon and ran hard with G for 4 miles. Did a similar two-a-day on Wednesday with a poor morning run followed up with a short quick run with G in the evening.
Again 30 miles for the week. And there were a lot of discouraging miles in there.
At one point in August and early September I had run 20 out of 21 days. I didn't run 4 out of my last 14.
But, I ran a brisk 6 on Friday September 20, in the woods and I'm starting to feel better.
Looking at my mileage I'm at 99 for the month and should easily clear 125. Although I haven't been keeping track until recently, I'm sure that's my largest month by at least 30 miles. So, I need to give myself a break and let my body adjust to the increased mileage.
#7 - Daughter's second race ... and first win.
My parents drove up and are meeting us at the race. Dad has a couple of Monday appointments at the Mayo clinic in Rochester so they are driving up early to see the girls run, play soccer, and play hockey. You know, typical full weekend.
G got off work at 2pm and we headed south to get D2 from school, then on to the race. The highway in a critical stretch farther south, where we are going, goes down to one line and the convenience electronic signage says there is a 40 minute delay through that stretch. As we came up on the exit to get D2 from school we could see the cars backed up. I'm pretty sure it was more than a 40 minute delay.
We've got exactly 50 minutes to get 30 miles. We employed the tools of the day, the iPhone and GPS Maps, to figure an alternative route. Amazingly we chose just the right roads avoiding several small towns and getting back on the expressway just past the one lane reduction and got to the race with about 5 minutes to spare. We greeted my parents, dropped off D2 with them, and said we'd be running around watching and cheering the race. See you at the finish.
The race meandered around ball fields and next to a lake and was not the most spectator friendly course. There was going to be some serious running involved to take in this race. Our first vantage point was at about 500 meters. The girls got out nicely and were running in a team pack of 6 near 15th place. We yelled encouragement to the girls we new, which amounted to TJ, O, and M. TJ was looking very relaxed. That was good, because it was hot. 88 degrees and humid. Nasty racing weather.
We sprinted between ball fields to get to our next vantage, near the 1 mile mark. The girls had moved up. The group of 6 were in or near the top 10, and TJ had moved up to 3rd, 20 yards from the leaders, going through the mile in 6:58. We told her to stay relaxed and that there was lots of racing left to do. We turned to our next cheering spot at 1 1/3 miles. In that 1/3 mile TJ had moved up the 20 yards and was now in second closing in on the leader. The girls ran back behind some trees out of view and we wouldn't see them again until 300 yards from the finish.
According to TJ she kept thinking the race was nearing it's end so she surged several times to pass and then put distance on the girl in second. But she wasn't near the end. We could hear the announcer saying TJ was leading but we couldn't see her. Finally we saw the lead ATV and then TJ and the former leader 10 yards trailing.
When she came by use with only 300 yards to go she looked spent and the girl in second was chewing up the distance closing a 10 yard lead in a scant few seconds. TJ surged again killing the opponents motivation, but then followed the lead truck as it turned off the course just before the finishing chute. The fans all yelled at her to go the other way and she recovered in time to finish the race in first. That could have been embarrassing. 1 of 265 participants.
Her finishing time was 13:35 for two miles. She ran a first mile of 6:58 and a second mile of 6:37 for a :21 second negative split. Wow! I'm wondering what she can run the 1 mile in. Maybe break 6:00? I didn't break 6:00 for the mile until I was a freshman in high school.
Her teammates finished 4th, 5th, 6th, and her two friends M finished 8th and O finished 9th. Their team score was an outstanding 24, and their team took the win. The rival school from last week ran most of their good 7th graders at the JV 'B' instead of the 'C' level, but still managed a strong 3rd place.
G got off work at 2pm and we headed south to get D2 from school, then on to the race. The highway in a critical stretch farther south, where we are going, goes down to one line and the convenience electronic signage says there is a 40 minute delay through that stretch. As we came up on the exit to get D2 from school we could see the cars backed up. I'm pretty sure it was more than a 40 minute delay.
We've got exactly 50 minutes to get 30 miles. We employed the tools of the day, the iPhone and GPS Maps, to figure an alternative route. Amazingly we chose just the right roads avoiding several small towns and getting back on the expressway just past the one lane reduction and got to the race with about 5 minutes to spare. We greeted my parents, dropped off D2 with them, and said we'd be running around watching and cheering the race. See you at the finish.
The race meandered around ball fields and next to a lake and was not the most spectator friendly course. There was going to be some serious running involved to take in this race. Our first vantage point was at about 500 meters. The girls got out nicely and were running in a team pack of 6 near 15th place. We yelled encouragement to the girls we new, which amounted to TJ, O, and M. TJ was looking very relaxed. That was good, because it was hot. 88 degrees and humid. Nasty racing weather.
We sprinted between ball fields to get to our next vantage, near the 1 mile mark. The girls had moved up. The group of 6 were in or near the top 10, and TJ had moved up to 3rd, 20 yards from the leaders, going through the mile in 6:58. We told her to stay relaxed and that there was lots of racing left to do. We turned to our next cheering spot at 1 1/3 miles. In that 1/3 mile TJ had moved up the 20 yards and was now in second closing in on the leader. The girls ran back behind some trees out of view and we wouldn't see them again until 300 yards from the finish.
According to TJ she kept thinking the race was nearing it's end so she surged several times to pass and then put distance on the girl in second. But she wasn't near the end. We could hear the announcer saying TJ was leading but we couldn't see her. Finally we saw the lead ATV and then TJ and the former leader 10 yards trailing.
When she came by use with only 300 yards to go she looked spent and the girl in second was chewing up the distance closing a 10 yard lead in a scant few seconds. TJ surged again killing the opponents motivation, but then followed the lead truck as it turned off the course just before the finishing chute. The fans all yelled at her to go the other way and she recovered in time to finish the race in first. That could have been embarrassing. 1 of 265 participants.
Her finishing time was 13:35 for two miles. She ran a first mile of 6:58 and a second mile of 6:37 for a :21 second negative split. Wow! I'm wondering what she can run the 1 mile in. Maybe break 6:00? I didn't break 6:00 for the mile until I was a freshman in high school.
Her teammates finished 4th, 5th, 6th, and her two friends M finished 8th and O finished 9th. Their team score was an outstanding 24, and their team took the win. The rival school from last week ran most of their good 7th graders at the JV 'B' instead of the 'C' level, but still managed a strong 3rd place.
#6 - Top Mileage Week
That three day Labor Day weekend, running with my daughter, kicked off my highest mileage week of the year - 40 miles!
On Tuesday I ran 9.5 miles in 84 minutes. My text to G said - "Around Harriet 84 min w one 4 min rest. Qualifies as a run and not a shuffle." My breathing was great, but my legs were kind of stiff and sore.
When I told TJ about my 9.5 mile run she said, jokingly I think, that I was wasting my time trying to get in shape to beat her because it's never going to happen. We'll see, miss I never saw a day off I didn't embrace.
Wednesday was a loss. Was planning on running with G in the PM. I tried a little jog in the morning to see how I'd feel. I couldn't do it. Back was tight. Quads were cramping. It was generous to say I 'ran' 3 miles when it was more like 1.5 with a 1.5 mile walk.
Thursday back on the horse. Went to Lebanon Hills forest preserve and ran for 78 minutes. This was the same look I'd run about 4 weeks previous in 85 minutes. Call it 8 miles.
Friday - Forgetful Jones, that's what we call TJ because she forgets everything, like double knotting her shoelaces, her phone, her homework; well, she forgot her backpack at my house. This was the first week of school! How do you walk out of the house without a backpack? I drove home (20 miles) and drove it back. Great. 80 miles of driving in the morning; I'm in a great mood. I briefly considered not going to her race this afternoon, but my parents are driving up from Chicago, and bottom line I want to see the race.
My run was terrible. I literally felt like laying down and taking a nap. Really drained. Sometimes that feeling scares me as I think about heart attacks and things like that. 4 miles.
Saturday - 5 miles.
My first 40 mile week.
On Tuesday I ran 9.5 miles in 84 minutes. My text to G said - "Around Harriet 84 min w one 4 min rest. Qualifies as a run and not a shuffle." My breathing was great, but my legs were kind of stiff and sore.
When I told TJ about my 9.5 mile run she said, jokingly I think, that I was wasting my time trying to get in shape to beat her because it's never going to happen. We'll see, miss I never saw a day off I didn't embrace.
Wednesday was a loss. Was planning on running with G in the PM. I tried a little jog in the morning to see how I'd feel. I couldn't do it. Back was tight. Quads were cramping. It was generous to say I 'ran' 3 miles when it was more like 1.5 with a 1.5 mile walk.
Thursday back on the horse. Went to Lebanon Hills forest preserve and ran for 78 minutes. This was the same look I'd run about 4 weeks previous in 85 minutes. Call it 8 miles.
Friday - Forgetful Jones, that's what we call TJ because she forgets everything, like double knotting her shoelaces, her phone, her homework; well, she forgot her backpack at my house. This was the first week of school! How do you walk out of the house without a backpack? I drove home (20 miles) and drove it back. Great. 80 miles of driving in the morning; I'm in a great mood. I briefly considered not going to her race this afternoon, but my parents are driving up from Chicago, and bottom line I want to see the race.
My run was terrible. I literally felt like laying down and taking a nap. Really drained. Sometimes that feeling scares me as I think about heart attacks and things like that. 4 miles.
Saturday - 5 miles.
My first 40 mile week.
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