September 12th, 2009
Yesterday it rained all day though I managed to find a dryer window early in the morning, only got poured on for a short time. It was supposed to be my hill rep day but I didn’t feel like going over 12 (and a hard workout, besides) with the threat of rain so I made it a vanilla 8.
Two interesting points about that run. 1. My garmin wasn’t catching on my windowsill so I did something I never do, wore my Timex ironman watch, purchased at the start of C25K and tossed to the side about a week later once I’d bought a Garmin. Not only was I Garminless, but I had totally forgot how to use the watch and neglected to check the instructions before I left the house, though I did manage to find the Chrono bit, I couldn’t figure out the lap part of it, so basically ran nekkid. It was a nice change.
Interesting point of the run #2: While running with the watch, simultaneously trying to figure out how it worked, the wind blew my hat off and as I was chasing it down, I fell flat on my ass in the middle of the wet, slippery street. Didn’t hurt at all, was just funny, though the one guy that saw me pretended not to notice.
Today’s run was even more eventful as I heard a car crash into some trees. I would have seen it but there is a wall at the point where it happened, so me and a bunch of other runners ran up to the wall after hearing that awful noise and saw the driver get out of her car, so apparently she was ok, but it was still a scary scene.
The run was a goody because it’s the workout I dread the most, hill reps. I know they’re good for me though, so there was no way I was getting out of it but man, did I dawdle before leaving the apt. Workout was 12.75 miles with five 3min reps @ 5k effort. Should have been a 9 mile workout but that ole hill is inconveniently placed a little far from home.
Someone on the Marathon Training Forum mentioned a really good deal on gels and other edibles at REI so I thought I’d post it here. If you buy at least 12 single serving items of any combination of product, brand or flavor, you get a 20% discount so check out REI (the link will take you directly to that page).
And that’s about it for me today. Hope everyone has a great weekend with some stupendous running, or at the very least, running that doesn’t suck. Later, my sweets!
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Your run yesterday sounds quite similar to mine. I had a nice fall as well which was hilarious but no one was around to see
It gets so slippery and plus theres acorns everywhere that roll right under your shoes.
If your Timex is anything like mine, then once it’s in chrono mode you just hit the big button to start it going, then hit it again for each lap/mile/whatever.
Scary about that car crash. I witnessed a thing like that when I had just begun running, it made me think a bit. Now I carry ID and a phone on most runs.
Thanks for the gel tip!
I still laugh about your one entry name of “Flo go boom”. Glad you are okay, funny, my garmin is broke and today I threw my Timex ironman on, so I could pay attention to how long I was running (sometimes I zone out and lose track of time), and I forgot how much I like it.
Get to Chrono, then lower right is the Stop/Reset button. Hold it to reset then hit Start/Lap button (lower center) to start and at every lap. Hit Stop button (lower right when done with run). well, what jimE said.
Love REI ! If you become a member, all you purchases add up, and you get a rebate check at the end of the year!
Gels are cheap in the US – I bought back a heap from the last trip. They’re about $3.50 each down here.
So you’re running uphill for 3 minutes on those? That’s a long hill. I think I’m too soft for that.
Another REI lover here. I even broke down and got their credit card for more rebate goodness – it’s scary to see how much I spend there. I hate shopping, except at REI.
What’s the grade on your “repeat” hill? The only reasonably-close hills I have that are long enough are either not steep enough, or too steep (~14% grade). I do the short hill sprints on the 14% hill, but there’s no way to get up to the top of that hill at even 5K effort without essentially walking, which I assume defeats the purpose.
Yikes about the car crash – I’m glad the driver (and the trees, I hope) were mostly OK.
Barb, it’s about 5%. Hey, you can see exactly how it is! Here’s the route and if you drag the street view guy from the navigation bar, you’ll see it in real view! (Google’s Street View rocks). I was doing them at 7:48 avg.
Yeah, 14% would be probably too steep for 8 sec hill sprints, even.