AM: 13.85 long run with jamie. Great run, we went to this bike path north of providence, completed it, got on this other road and ran till it stopped, and then found our way home. We were totally lost but just kept going and it worked out perfectly. I drank too much last night and was hung over but at just the right level to not interfere with the run and the run helped me get over the hang over. The route was actually quite scenic though lacking much soft surfaces, but you just can't find enough for a long run in this kind of city. And it went into MA which is a bonus because you get to say you ran to a different state today, lol.
PM: 6.75 We are trying to figure good routes for 4ish and 6-7ish miles for our morning and evening runs for most days. It is a work in progress. Providence is not a very pretty city nor does it have many soft running surfaces. We must maximize beauty, variety, and dirt while minimizing overlap of the two routes and variation from the desired distances. Ok, now I just need to write a cplex program with those constraints and make some sort of heuristic to apply to google street view images to objectify beauty, variety, and detect dirt. You wouldn't think I am a med student, eh?
PM: 6 Even running at 4:30 its too dark to do any trails at this point. It is gonna be 2 months (a month till the winter sulstice and a month on the other side until we get even a bit of sun again) before it is at all light for my evening runs. Annoying
New record for time holding my breath!! 3:04. And really the effort was not all that bad. I probably could have done 3:15 or so but my goal was 3 minutes so after I gave it a few seconds buffer I gave up. My previous PR was 2:34 so this was a pretty big boost. I think I can improve more still even without improving fitness. It is all a matter of hyperventalating before to decrease blood CO2 and then to stay very relaxed such that your HR drops. I did this on my bed with my eyes closed until something like 2min 24 seconds. By 2:45 I was off the bed and moving around because at some point you have to distract yourself from the growing urge to breath. Another trick is to slowly let out the breath which also seems to help (I think that it counts as long as you don't breath in at all). Next time (not anytime soon, it doesnt feel all that good, a bit like a mile race... mmm total oxygen debt and acidemia).
PM: 9.5 including 7 striders, drills, abs. Didn't really mean to do this much mileage. Oops. Oh well. This will allow me to do only 1 run on saturday and still hit somewhere between plenty and too much mileage.
PM: 5.15 Did not feel very limber today. Could be the miles or the leg workout from 2 days ago. Those workouts are starting to not make me sore which is good, but now might just make me feel just a bit weak. I am hoping that the strength training during base turns into speed during winter and spring track. I miss the workouts already (its been almost 3 weeks since I have done anything fast besides striders). But I must persevere until january when I will start adding workouts back to my training.
AM: 10.67 Felt pretty bad. Might have been the weights yesterday or something like that. Henry was with me and he felt even worse so that made me feel a little bit better. But we got through it and hopefully I feel better tomorrow.
