Today was another very very icy day! The brook path is covered!
We warmed up 20 minutes down and back on the brook path, running very carefully so as not to slip!
Then we met on Twitchell for our progression 200s. These felt a little weird because we weren't on a track. I think we did our 2 mile and mile segments a bit fast each time, because we were consistently hitting 36's instead of 37/38. But we were consistent, so I guess that was good. We also did 45 seconds rest in between each one, because the rest wasn't on the blog and we were supposed to have 30 seconds rest for dong 6-8 last week, so we decided to give it a bit longer since we were doing more. Brennan and I cooled down another 20 minutes down the Brook Path, and we got back to the high school at 17 minutes and Brennan was very kind and even came with me to finish up the 20!
My legs felt good today, and my hip felt a bit sore during the progressions, which was weird, but I think I just tweaked it slipping on ice or something because I didn't notice it anymore on the cool down!
Morning heart rate - 12
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
sparkly snow!
Today was a very very beautiful day outside! It was nice and warm and snow was melting and it almost felt like spring! (almost as in, I was still surrounded by 3 feet of snow everywhere I looked) Unfortunately, because everything had started melting, the froze, then started melting again, there was quite a lot of ice all over. No worries! I wore my handy dandy yak trax! They worked perfectly and I was able to run without falling once!
So I met Brennan on Washington Street and we kept running down Washington street, fun, right? We were going to try to go to Babson/ Olin to do our fartleks, but decided that was too far away. Regardless, the fartleks worked out ok on Washington. There was a lot of nice down-hills, which felt wonderful! The only problem with Washington was that I had to stop in the middle of a fartlek twice to avoid getting hit by a car coming out of a sidestreet WITHOUT STOPPING AT THE STOP SIGN!!! And once when we were crossing the road, we went a few seconds over our rest. Not to worry, when we encountered these troubles, we added on extra fartleking time. The fartleks today were 6 sets of 1x1 and 30x30. They felt pretty good, and I wasn't really sore from Friday!
I also felt really intense because my mother bought me a really super awesome neon green jacket yesterday at Marathon because they are having a sale (30% off winter stuff! Plus our student 10% discount = 40% off!!!!) so I felt very visible!
I warmed up for a total of 18 minutes and cooled down for 38, so the day's total was 73, so this run acted as our long run of last week as well.
I also got started on some cookie dough selling today! ...Its not as easy as I thought!
So I met Brennan on Washington Street and we kept running down Washington street, fun, right? We were going to try to go to Babson/ Olin to do our fartleks, but decided that was too far away. Regardless, the fartleks worked out ok on Washington. There was a lot of nice down-hills, which felt wonderful! The only problem with Washington was that I had to stop in the middle of a fartlek twice to avoid getting hit by a car coming out of a sidestreet WITHOUT STOPPING AT THE STOP SIGN!!! And once when we were crossing the road, we went a few seconds over our rest. Not to worry, when we encountered these troubles, we added on extra fartleking time. The fartleks today were 6 sets of 1x1 and 30x30. They felt pretty good, and I wasn't really sore from Friday!
I also felt really intense because my mother bought me a really super awesome neon green jacket yesterday at Marathon because they are having a sale (30% off winter stuff! Plus our student 10% discount = 40% off!!!!) so I felt very visible!
I warmed up for a total of 18 minutes and cooled down for 38, so the day's total was 73, so this run acted as our long run of last week as well.
I also got started on some cookie dough selling today! ...Its not as easy as I thought!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Saturday
I took today off so I can do some fun fartleks with everyone tomorrow! Anyways, I wanted to document my post race heart rate, which was up a bit at 13.
Indoor Twilight Meet!
Although not nearly as exciting as the outdoor twilight meet, we had a nice indoor version yesterday! Because of all the postponements due to numerous snow days, they rescheduled the meet for 7:30 on a friday night! So I went home after school and ate a second lunch (more pb and j) and then a clif bar 3 hours before. I also introduced Brennan to the wonder of clif bars before a race!
So then we got on the bus at 5:45 but didn't leave til after 6. And it took FOREVERRRRR to get to Reggie. Us milers were freakin' out a bit, and literally jumped off the bus to warm up. Due to our nerves and fears of being late, our warm up was quite quick! We ran in to Reggie after 10 minutes and finished up the 15 around the track. It was very cool seeing reggie all done up for the meet today! Except they had pulled out all the bleachers and there was no where to stride. They got going really late, but we started our mile around 8.
In the mile, I think we went out a tad slow. I think I heard a 45 somewhere in there. Whoops! I picked it up finishing up the first 1/2, and I think ran something like a couple 41's (at least, thats what I heard!) I felt like I kept increasing effort and hopefully maintaining speed. I actually felt like I was racing the entire time, but never like i would die. And then I closed in a 39/40, which was a solid kick, I believe! I didn't get the time I wanted, but everything felt good, and I think if I go out fast enough, I could hold it!
Then I cooled down for 42 minutes. So the total for the day was 62.
Morning heart rate was 12.
So then we got on the bus at 5:45 but didn't leave til after 6. And it took FOREVERRRRR to get to Reggie. Us milers were freakin' out a bit, and literally jumped off the bus to warm up. Due to our nerves and fears of being late, our warm up was quite quick! We ran in to Reggie after 10 minutes and finished up the 15 around the track. It was very cool seeing reggie all done up for the meet today! Except they had pulled out all the bleachers and there was no where to stride. They got going really late, but we started our mile around 8.
In the mile, I think we went out a tad slow. I think I heard a 45 somewhere in there. Whoops! I picked it up finishing up the first 1/2, and I think ran something like a couple 41's (at least, thats what I heard!) I felt like I kept increasing effort and hopefully maintaining speed. I actually felt like I was racing the entire time, but never like i would die. And then I closed in a 39/40, which was a solid kick, I believe! I didn't get the time I wanted, but everything felt good, and I think if I go out fast enough, I could hold it!
Then I cooled down for 42 minutes. So the total for the day was 62.
Morning heart rate was 12.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Thursday
So since today was a before-meet day, Brennan and I decided to do sprint drills again even though we already did them this week. We wanted to be sure that we wouldn't jeopardize/ jinx anything tomorrow!
So we warmed up 21 minutes outside on the brook path. It was beautiful out there! The ice had all frozen to the trees and everything sparkled! We ran back to the highschool and met everyone in the math hallway, except they had already started. Since we didn't want to miss A and B skip, and knew that sprint drills with the entire crew take forever, we decided to go downstairs with all the other "late" people (even though we had only done a slightly longer warmup). We finished the drills in record time! I felt a bit sore on some of the skipping, but nothing too strong or persistent. Strides felt good too!
After the drills we went back out for a cool down. Brennan and I got 21 minutes, bringing today's total to 42. Everything felt good today, especially the warm up, during which I felt light and springy :) Although, that may have been just from being outside again! Plus I was in an especially good mood all day today! It was wonderful!
Morning Heart rate was 12 so 48.
And tomorrow's plan is for Brennan to pace the first two laps (42's) and I'll take the second two, and then we'll switch off from there!
So we warmed up 21 minutes outside on the brook path. It was beautiful out there! The ice had all frozen to the trees and everything sparkled! We ran back to the highschool and met everyone in the math hallway, except they had already started. Since we didn't want to miss A and B skip, and knew that sprint drills with the entire crew take forever, we decided to go downstairs with all the other "late" people (even though we had only done a slightly longer warmup). We finished the drills in record time! I felt a bit sore on some of the skipping, but nothing too strong or persistent. Strides felt good too!
After the drills we went back out for a cool down. Brennan and I got 21 minutes, bringing today's total to 42. Everything felt good today, especially the warm up, during which I felt light and springy :) Although, that may have been just from being outside again! Plus I was in an especially good mood all day today! It was wonderful!
Morning Heart rate was 12 so 48.
And tomorrow's plan is for Brennan to pace the first two laps (42's) and I'll take the second two, and then we'll switch off from there!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Yet another snow day....
So we didn't have school AGAIN today. ugh. I really am tired of these weekly snow surprises. And it didn't even really snow today. It just rained a lot. I had to shovel in the rain and my winter jacket decided to stop being waterproof....cool.
Anyways, enough complaining, because I have just heard the news that Mr. Chisum's baby was born! Which is very very very exciting and I can't wait to see pictures!! Also, I really really really like the name Hadley. Its adorable! Congratulations!
And back to running - so Nina and I met up at BSC at 3. Since the race has now been postponed to Friday night, we were supposed to do 10-12 x 200 meter progressions. This proved very difficult on the treadmills! We warmed up with 15 minutes. We were then about to commence our workout when we saw that our treadmills only went up to 12.5 mph. Which was not fast enough because I figured out the speeds and amount of time per speed to cover roughly 50 meters at each appropriate pace. SO we had to hunt for a treadmill that went up to 14.1. Luckily, we found two that went up to 14, which was close enough! I started out at 10 mph for 11 seconds, then 11.3 for 10 seconds, then 12.5 for 9 seconds and 14 for 8 seconds. Or at least, thats what I planned to do. 14 mph, however, is very very fast on a treadmill and we felt like we were going to fall off, so we cut out that part. To make up for it, at the end of the run we did 12 sprints in the gym. Those were not far enough either, but we had to make do because there was no room! And I'm not so sure all the times/ rest times were correct because it was really really hard to keep changing levels. I think I sprained a wrist muscle. Like actually, my wrist is sore from pressing the button so much! We also must have been really annoying because the treadmills kept beep beep beeping and whirring a lot and we looked like loons running really fast for like 30 seconds, then jumping onto the side things to slow the belt down, and then doing all over again!
Anyways, we cooled down for 17 minutes after 12 sprints. That would be a total of like 40-45 minutes.
We also saw Jessie at the gym! I forgot! That was exciting too!
And my morning heart rate was 12.
Anyways, enough complaining, because I have just heard the news that Mr. Chisum's baby was born! Which is very very very exciting and I can't wait to see pictures!! Also, I really really really like the name Hadley. Its adorable! Congratulations!
And back to running - so Nina and I met up at BSC at 3. Since the race has now been postponed to Friday night, we were supposed to do 10-12 x 200 meter progressions. This proved very difficult on the treadmills! We warmed up with 15 minutes. We were then about to commence our workout when we saw that our treadmills only went up to 12.5 mph. Which was not fast enough because I figured out the speeds and amount of time per speed to cover roughly 50 meters at each appropriate pace. SO we had to hunt for a treadmill that went up to 14.1. Luckily, we found two that went up to 14, which was close enough! I started out at 10 mph for 11 seconds, then 11.3 for 10 seconds, then 12.5 for 9 seconds and 14 for 8 seconds. Or at least, thats what I planned to do. 14 mph, however, is very very fast on a treadmill and we felt like we were going to fall off, so we cut out that part. To make up for it, at the end of the run we did 12 sprints in the gym. Those were not far enough either, but we had to make do because there was no room! And I'm not so sure all the times/ rest times were correct because it was really really hard to keep changing levels. I think I sprained a wrist muscle. Like actually, my wrist is sore from pressing the button so much! We also must have been really annoying because the treadmills kept beep beep beeping and whirring a lot and we looked like loons running really fast for like 30 seconds, then jumping onto the side things to slow the belt down, and then doing all over again!
Anyways, we cooled down for 17 minutes after 12 sprints. That would be a total of like 40-45 minutes.
We also saw Jessie at the gym! I forgot! That was exciting too!
And my morning heart rate was 12.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
I HATE SNOW!!!!!
So school got out early, at 1:30, so I ran home and got my mom to bring me to the gym. I went to BSC (all alone, couldn't get anyone to come!) I warmed up 21 minutes on the treadmill.
Then I went into the gym and did the light drills. It was nice an awkward because I was making a lot of noise and it was echoing all over. And then these people came in and were watching me, which just made it more awkward...fun times!
I then did 24 minutes on the treadmill again! So total 45 minutes for the day! Wohoo! I'll try to run again tomorrow! we'll see!!!!!
Then I went into the gym and did the light drills. It was nice an awkward because I was making a lot of noise and it was echoing all over. And then these people came in and were watching me, which just made it more awkward...fun times!
I then did 24 minutes on the treadmill again! So total 45 minutes for the day! Wohoo! I'll try to run again tomorrow! we'll see!!!!!
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