Mon 8/28 - 85 minutes elliptigo arc. Headed for the hills of Weston near Highland Ave, over to Natick briefly as well. Yesterday's effort left its mark on the left hamstring/glute area, which feels frayed and weak overall. Rolled on it last night and rolled on it again tonight which helped some. The underlying damage remains unmistakable, and not as healed as I had deluded myself into thinking it was. Warm but not hot and dry once again.
Tue 8/29 - 55 minutes easy incl. 6 trips up and down Garfield Road at the end. Left hamstring/glute area tweaked from Sunday and I felt it all day. Not pleasant, and the ongoing woes relating to it suggest that it's damaged a bit more than I'd care to admit. Exhaustion starting to sink in already a mere 5 days of practice into the coaching season.
Wed 8/30 - PM 65 minutes elliptigo arc. Framingham/Sudbury including a trip down Water Row. Glad to have this thing to work out on as running didn't hold much appeal. Dry and cool conditions.
Thu 8/31 - PM 40 minutes incl. short track reps. Super late start after getting home exhausted following kiddie practice that went forever, again. Jogged up the road to the track and dragged myself through 8x100, 8x150, 4x200, and 8x100. Left hammie feeling stuck at the outset, loosened up somewhat by the middle portion, and then started feeling fatigued by the end. Remains the single biggest impediment (among many) to getting any worthwhile training done. Another cool and dry day.
Fri 9/1- PM 70 minutes elliptigo arc. Out and back from the high school to Walden Pond and back, with a slightly out of the way route on the way there. Feeling quite tired overall after a long week but able to muster up the energy for spin down the road. Left hammie feels quite stuck from yesterday.
Sat 9/2 - off. Not a planned zero, only time to get in a run was in the morning and I frittered away that opportunity. Trip across the state after that.
Sun 9/3 - AM 70 minutes incl. uphill road race. Another disappointing flat tired effort, feeling fatigued from the moment the gun went off. Finished with the usual fatigue headache. Not able to tackle an event such as this with as little as I've been sleeping of late, never mind the ongoing issues with the leg and trying to establish some kind of fitness. As an added reminder that the universe can be kind of a dick, heavy rain and wind arrived just ahead of the start of the race. This made for an especially miserable experience. Ordinarily some consolation would have come from hanging out at the summit with the CH and perhaps hiking to a nearby waterfall but no one in their right mind was doing that today. While this event has a strong nostalgic appeal given how many times I've done it and done reasonably well, it seems those days are behind me and it seems likely I'll give it a rest going forward.
8/29/17
Week of 8/21-8/27
Mon 8/21 - PM 50 minutes elliptigo arc plus 20 minutes easy and 15 minutes in Walden. Late start cut the overall length of the workout short. Had supreme difficulty waking up from the afternoon nap.
Tue 8/22 - PM 40 minutes very easy plus 18 minutes in Walden. Felt absolutely horrible when time came to run, after a 2+ hour appointment wiped out any time for a nap after work. Desperately tired as a result, and the steambath conditions didn't help any. So tired my head hurt.
Wed 8/23 - PM 50 minutes plus 18 minutes in Lake Cochituate. Feeling much better than yesterday after something resembling a decent night's rest. Much nicer weather than yesterday also helped, sunny and dry with a crisp breeze. That breeze made for some heavy chop on the water though, as the lake is less protected and more of a fetch than the pond. With the start of kiddie practice tomorrow I think I may have taken my last weekday afternoon nap for a good long while.
Thu 8/24 - PM 60 minutes incl. 10x100 (100 jog) and 10x150 (50 walk) on the track. All I could manage after a 12 hour day. Feeling a twinge in the piriformis/hamstring area but surprisingly enough it loosened up some as I was doing the reps on the track. Not timing anything for this type of "work" at this point. Feeling vaguely febrile after a long day with the afternoon spent under a hot sun.
Fri 8/25 - PM 75 minutes elliptigo arc. Mostly in Framingham including a climb up Edmands Road. Feeling less tired. Very nice day for being outside, cooler than yesterday.
Sat 8/26 - PM 50 minutes elliptigo arc plus 20 minutes easy and 18 minutes in Walden. I had thought I would get some exercise in the morning after kiddie practice, but when kiddie practice didn't end until noon that went by the boards. Waited until later in the afternoon, another nice day.
Sun 8/27 - AM 85 minutes incl. 15k progression run, Longfellow loop. In a big twist I tracked km splits not miles. Thought I would start at a very reasonable (slow) pace and tick it down km by km, in reality I started out a bit quicker than that pace and wound up running each lap at about the same pace overall. Overall pace not at all impressive but it was more of an actual progression than almost anything I've done on this loop in the past, so there's that. Original plan was the full four laps and 16k, however upon embarking upon the fourth time around the loop what had been manageable rapidly became much less so. Splits:
4:13/4:15/4:14/3:59
4:04/4:01/4:04/3:54
3:53/3:54/3:57/3:42
3:50/3:48/3:53
Another sparkler of a day, third in a row. Very dry conditions in fact.
Tue 8/22 - PM 40 minutes very easy plus 18 minutes in Walden. Felt absolutely horrible when time came to run, after a 2+ hour appointment wiped out any time for a nap after work. Desperately tired as a result, and the steambath conditions didn't help any. So tired my head hurt.
Wed 8/23 - PM 50 minutes plus 18 minutes in Lake Cochituate. Feeling much better than yesterday after something resembling a decent night's rest. Much nicer weather than yesterday also helped, sunny and dry with a crisp breeze. That breeze made for some heavy chop on the water though, as the lake is less protected and more of a fetch than the pond. With the start of kiddie practice tomorrow I think I may have taken my last weekday afternoon nap for a good long while.
Thu 8/24 - PM 60 minutes incl. 10x100 (100 jog) and 10x150 (50 walk) on the track. All I could manage after a 12 hour day. Feeling a twinge in the piriformis/hamstring area but surprisingly enough it loosened up some as I was doing the reps on the track. Not timing anything for this type of "work" at this point. Feeling vaguely febrile after a long day with the afternoon spent under a hot sun.
Fri 8/25 - PM 75 minutes elliptigo arc. Mostly in Framingham including a climb up Edmands Road. Feeling less tired. Very nice day for being outside, cooler than yesterday.
Sat 8/26 - PM 50 minutes elliptigo arc plus 20 minutes easy and 18 minutes in Walden. I had thought I would get some exercise in the morning after kiddie practice, but when kiddie practice didn't end until noon that went by the boards. Waited until later in the afternoon, another nice day.
Sun 8/27 - AM 85 minutes incl. 15k progression run, Longfellow loop. In a big twist I tracked km splits not miles. Thought I would start at a very reasonable (slow) pace and tick it down km by km, in reality I started out a bit quicker than that pace and wound up running each lap at about the same pace overall. Overall pace not at all impressive but it was more of an actual progression than almost anything I've done on this loop in the past, so there's that. Original plan was the full four laps and 16k, however upon embarking upon the fourth time around the loop what had been manageable rapidly became much less so. Splits:
4:13/4:15/4:14/3:59
4:04/4:01/4:04/3:54
3:53/3:54/3:57/3:42
3:50/3:48/3:53
Another sparkler of a day, third in a row. Very dry conditions in fact.
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