7 miles today?

ran to arroyo and did tempo loop, but not as a tempo, just running... I feel terrible, but that's another story.

Maybe I'd rather write songs, after all.

a disingtegration of routine

Thurs, Jul 9: ran fartlek w/ Emily in Highland Forest.
Fri, Jul 10: did 9 mile route w/ Emily but walked a mile or so near end-- heat was killer!

nothing
continuing

Wed??? ran Huntington with Steph. dead

Fri, Jul 17 ran Lacey long way with self.

Sat, Jul 18: biked 40 miles to Huntington, piddled around, biked to Blue line and took that back to Pasadena

Yesterday (37.8? miles biking)

Yesterday: We biked from max station to Hagg lake, around, and then back to B STREET where Kallen's parents picked us up. It was a good one. Kallen had something going on with her hip, though, so I got more cleat practice. (btw, first ride with those new ones! Awesome) I am terrible at pulling-- must learn to do that better.
Good times. I'll miss biking with these trees and that girl.

Packed up the bike today. Will mail it today or tommorrow.

Yesterday (4.2 miles)

Tuesday, Jul 6: 4.2 miles with Emily on 155th to Hart and back. Emily had eaten rice with a lot of hot sauce earlier, so we stopped a lot to stretch/want-to-barf (me/emily), but it was a good run. Nice recovery from the other day. Kallen and I plan on doing an awesome bike ride around a lake today, and I will try out my new cycling shoes. Yikes! Ye gods! Wahoo! I'm scared!

Mileage the past week

Week of Mon, June 29 - Sun, July 4:
goal: 20 miles (recovery week). Also was supposed to do striders 2x/week.

running
0 + 0 + 0 + 6 + 6.1 +4.4 + 0 = 16.5
biking
20 + 10 + 21 + 0 + 16.4 + 0 + 14= 81.4

Didn't quite get to 20 miles. Also didn't run even half of the days in the week. I think the legs needed the rest, though. This next week is supposed to be 30-35 miles. I think I can do it if I start icing my foot for real.

New Jeans, awesome possum

Sunday, 4th of July: was going to do an epic bike ride with Kallen, but her shifting cable broke, leaving her on an unbearably high gear. She took out my multitool (thanks, Zane!) and messed with the derailer, earning herself two gears down, and we finished the 14 mile loop only once and then went off to go get her bike fixed. Saw the Sauvie Island Half Marathon and Marathon finishing up, tho. What a party! Drooled at shoes, cleats, pedals.
Monday, 5th of July: biked 5 miles to Kallen's house, played tennis, got ice cream, bought shoes, cleats, pedals (oh, my!), and then went to run with Emily in the dusk. It was awesome. Some leftover fireworks were still going up, and we ran in the fattest park ever, on a trail that went steadily uphill for about 2 miles, before we off-roaded it completely and ran in grass up to our knees (feared snakes, but none here are poisonous) and encountered the highway after a while. Total might have been 90 minutes. I looked it up on gmap-ped later, and it was 7 miles round trip as the crow flies-- but probably more, because I didn't know the neighborhood or the actual route. It was dark when we finished, then we walked around the neighborhood to warm down. Lovely! still need to treat arches..!

4.4 miles

put on my shoes and didn't even know if I should go outside. difficult to interpret various fatigues of the body, but I think I'm pretty good. Should treat my foot soon, have been not getting to it for a while. Halfway through the run, I saw 7 duck youthlings marching across the street in a tight line. They were probably 1/2 the mass of a full-grown duck, so they were much more than ducklings. In fact, they just looked like female ducks scaled down. Anyway, I stopped-- as to not scare them. My sense of group mentality made me want to get behind them and start marching, wobbling as they did, but instead I walked a safe distance behind them. I followed them off the beaten (ouch!) path, crouching under some trees and crossing another road, until they disappeared into some bushes and reappeared in a pond in a local park, joining two more identical-looking ducks to swim off into the distance. Satisfied that it was good that I left the house, I huffed up the rest of those hills and came home.

Friday days are alright for living alive always every day forever (honestly, guys)

6.1 miles. Did the new park route I found backwards, starting up the abandoned private drive on Davis. A little rain occasionally. Have noticed start of plantar fasciitis last week, so should ice that later. Legs tired during second half. Excited to do a long (9 miles?) run on Saturday, then a long bike Sunday morning. : )

Later in the day: biked to Kalolen's house, then with her and Joey to the velodrome (5.7 miles from Kallen's house) and back, then she gave us rides home after watching a James bond movie and eating delicious pizza with pepperoni, sausage, and onions. 16.4?

Another fraction of the week, another fraction of life justly spent, even if ambition makes for regret (on this blog there is none)

Tues, June 29: biked 4 or 5 miles to the library, studied, then biked back. biked 8-10 miles total. Was super-tired! Walked bike halfway up both of the two hills, legs were so exhausted from these past few days. Decided legs were desperate for rest, so took off rest of day.
Wed, June 30: Went biking with Kallen. Super-fun! Biked to her house, then we took Scholls to downtown Portland(!!!) and saw people setting up for the Blues Festival at the Waterfront. Crossed the river and took our bikes for a walk (leisurely pedaling) down the East Bank Esplanade and then that other path which starts at the end of that, and took it to (Grand Oaks?) some amusement park. Then retraced our steps, crossed back to the west side of the river and found a max station (Chinatown?). Without knowing the actual route, I'd guess 13 miles to Waterfront, then 8 miles round trip on the Esplanade/ bike path. Perhaps 21 total?
Thurs, Jul 1: Ran wildwood in the AM with Emily and Joey. Ran primarily with Joey. Malia walked with Ili and Leon. We got to Pittock mansion (almost 4) then turned around (I paused only once up the terrifying hills-- and only briefly, I think; I'm quite proud of my self), and shortly after the 2 mile mark ran into the walkers. Walked the last 2 miles with them as a pleasant cooldown. Worked really well-- my legs weren't sore at all later! So ran 6 miles, and walked 2.
Friday: I'm going to do a short ride with Kallen to go watch the bike track races at the velodrome later today. I hope to run 5 miles or so before then.

Mileage this week

Goal: 6/20 – 26 25-30 miles

Actual:

Week of Mon, June 21 - Sun, June 27:
running
6.6 (or 7.6) +4.46+ 7.5 + 0? + 0 +6.7+ 3.2 = 28.46
biking
0 +0 + 0+0+16+22+20 = 58

pretty good, I think.

Next week is 20 miles. A recovery week. That's probably good. Maybe find some time to do a fartlek in there? I must also start working on English research in earnest, so this is convenient. I expect I will be biking to and fro the library (5 miles one way) each day, as well.

A good week (it's a good day to die (protoss zealot))

Thurs, Jun 24: Bike delivered, but there is a problem. Can't remember if I did anything this day. Let's say, probably... not
Fri, Jun 25: Got it fixed! Biked 8 miles out on Murray, then came back (16 miles total) to test it out. Almost killed myself because I didn't tighten the bolt holding the handlebars upright...
Sat, Jun 26: Ran in wildwood with Emily, good pace. Almost 4 miles out, and then was probably about 6.7 miles total when we met up with Malia and decided to walk the rest of the way as a cool down. Promptly got lost and hiked around the zoo, adding at least an extra mile to the cooldown.
Sun, Jun 27: AM: Went biking with Kallen. met at her house and she helped me clean my chain + derailer. first to Merlo then she showed me how to get to the zoo. No idea on the mileage on that. From my house to the zoo is about 11 miles, so let's guess it was 22 miles total. Good pace, legs burrrrrned on those hills, tho. : ) PM: went on a short run because I knew I was going out to sushi! later, but the legs were so heavy. stride seemed half as long. Ran 3.2 miles, then walked the last .18 miles up the hill, as a faux-warm down. I'm not supposed to talk about walking on a running blog because people will think I did it because I'm weak, but I'm trying really hard to prevent overtraining while I exercise as excessively as possible while I'm in Beaverton. Then flopped around in the pool after dinner.
Mon, Jun 28: Biked to Lila's house, talked, had dinner (delicious! and healthy), and biked back. 10 miles each way.

7.5, then 0.9 walking to cool down

Started run at perhaps 3pm. Finished stretching and checked the time and it was 4:44pm. Dunno how time worked out, but it felt really slow! Wanted to take it easy on my quads (couldn't fall asleep until late last night because they were tight as daggers), and ended up being buffeted a bit by the heat anyway, so it was probably slow. At some points I thought, oh, it'll be worth it to walk this extreme uphill (I love how hilly Beaverton is, although the downhills are really annoying because they're awkward), but a few seconds later I had regained my wind and thought, wow, this is silly and kept running. Stopped a lot in the shade. So it really wasn't as continuous as all my other runs up to this point. Temperature 85 degrees. 155 to Hart then slightly left into some system of parks and went North until Farmington, then back on Murray. Again, in homage to my quads, walked the last 0.9 miles up to my house. May seem wimpy, but I think I'll be able to sleep better tonight. Maybe I should have finished the run and then walked an additional 0.9 miles, but I feel like I always finish long runs only out of desperation-- out of parchment, pain, overheating, exhertion-- and knowing the only way to stop is to get to my house, where I can cut it out and drink water. So it would have been hard to leave that and go cool down. But hey, I'm glad I got out the door.

I think my running log entries are mainly for me to record my thoughts, impressions and feelings about how I'm doing running-wise, because these entries contain way more than would amuse the average reader. ; )

Rest day, funky knees: 4.46 miles

Started near the bottom of the powerlines and went all the way up, to weir, which it turns out, is about 1 mile. Went up a little and turned downhill on 160th, then did 155th to Beard to Murray then back through the shopping center straddled by Teal and Scholls. 4.46 miles. Was to be a rest day so that I can go long tomorrow (oh where, oh where should I go? Maybe I can get Kallen to go running, but I dunno) but my knees really protested the downhills and the cement sidewalks in particular. In Pasadena I had done pretty well about sticking to the grass. Dunno if that affects knees. Quads still tight. Today was sunny but the clouds came out in time for my run. Didn't even think about temperature, it was so fine.

Mileages

Being bored and criminal, I decided to compile biking and running milages and compare them to the XC preseason mileages Scott sent out.

Scott:
5/30 – 6/5 15-20 miles
6/6 – 12 15-20 miles
6/13 – 19 25-30 miles
6/20 – 26 25-30 miles
6/27 – 7/3 20 miles (recovery week)
7/4 – 10 30-35 miles
7/11 – 17 30-35 miles
7/18 – 24 25 miles (recovery week)
7/25 – 31 35-40 miles
8/1 – 7 35-40 miles
8/8 – 14 30 miles (recovery week)
8/15 – 21 45 miles
8/22 – 28 45 miles

Also, w/ 6-10 striders 2x/week starting in July.

Me:
5/31 - 6/6: Goal = 15-20
running
4.5+3+6+4.2 = 17.7
biking
15.7+ 21 = 36.7

6/7 - 6/13: Goal = 15-20
running
5+5+6.2 = 16.2
biking
25 = 25

6/14 - 6/20: Goal = 25-30
running
4+7+4+4.5 = 19.5
biking
15? = 15?

Stuffed with Fluff

All I do around here is eat. Oh, yeah, and today I ran 7.6? miles according to gmap-p. At minimum 6.6 miles. Hard to map because I took a park path less traveled and by the time I left it I turned around to read a sign marking it as Private Property. As usual it gets easier a couple miles into the run. Uphills and downhills, as typical of my part of the Portland area. Legs were very tight at beginning, particularly the quads.

I really miss my bicycle. It's in the mail somewhere... hope to receive it on Wednesday or Thursday. Getting riding withdrawal. Weather is extremely cloudy, not hot at all. Yesterday it rained a bit. On other counts, I haven't really worked on my SURF yet, but I plan to start tomorrow in earnest. I need to get out of the house more and eat a lot less. I hope my legs will recover quickly instead of being tired all the time, because that is when I start to fear injury. Perhaps do 5 miles tomorrow and longer run on Wednesday.

Rest Day

Very lazy... drank a cinnamon dolce latte with soy milk and ate lots of sweet things... and nonsweet things, too. These muscles better be healing well! : D They are sore.

[In the very early a.m. here (around midnight?) I went out and did a lap around campus then did pre-race. Appears to have been 15+30 minutes or so. Oh, I appear to have noted that in the last entry.]

1st week of SURF

Monday, June 14: I ran Lacey long way with Sedona on this day. Easy pace...
Tues, 15: Rest day. Went to the beach and climbed rocks and watched the waves and felt the wind and the sunset.

Wed, 16: 7 or 8 miles. Ran to Arroyo/Cali, took the path down, did a loop without ascending out of the park, and took the same way back.
Thurs, 17: rested
Fri, 18: ran to Lacey, did 8 accelerations, then ran back. Early-ish afternoon. Felt a bit tired by the time done. Have red freckles-- inflamed sweat glands??? Then biked distended route to the top of Lacey with Ian, Justine, and Zane-- then past Rose Bowl. hills were definitely involved.
Sat, 19: biked around a bit (to Ian's to pack my bike and to paseo to see chalk and Matt + someone) during the day and ran ~ 45 min (once around campus and then the pre-race route) in the dark. Ran into lots of spider webs. Quads sore from yesterday and still feeling the knees.

Tuesday: don't remember, but think it was 5 miles or so
Wednesday: 45 minutes, late at night
Thursday: did I do something? If I did it was before the senior dinner... but I don't think I did... rest
Friday: rest
Saturday: biked with Stephanie, Clara: 25 miles via Del Mar, Colorado, San Gabriel River Trail to view of reservoir and back.
Sunday: ran 6.2 miles: wilson, walnut, orange grove, colorado but mostly green, wilson

Yesterday

I biked Chantry flats as promised yesterday. According to the url Garrett sent me in August it is 10.392 miles one way... Took between 2 and 3 hours total-- I'm not sure when I left. Closer to 2 definitely, though.

I woke up at 2:30pm feeling a little out of it, so I generalized the Katherine Breeden hangover cure and decided that the long bike ride would also help, but then I was really dehydrated and tired and hungry and a little worse off for the rest of the day.

Also: what an unusual weekend!

Catchup- and hey hey

Tues, June 1: "Huntington backwards, except ran on Monterey instead of Huntington. 4-5 miles? slow but steady. "
Wed, June 2: Ran with Sedona. 3 miles in the morning (the pre-race route). Quads were tight, but pace was good. Sedona is in freaking aerobic shape from swimming.
Thurs, June 3: Cycle: I think I biked to art center ("the short loop" "that's not a loop at all, Perrin") and did a lap at the Rose bowl. I think it would have been 15.7 miles. Not long, but a nice intro to getting into shape.
Fri, June 4: Ran with Stephanie. Yay! I did that another time in the last couple weeks, but it must have been in May. Both times are tough but satisfying. Hope sports bra regains elasticity when it washes.
Sat, June 5: not a long square, but it seemed long at the time. Hill/Walnut/Los Robles/Cali. 4.2 miles. Pace was good. I think Stephanie has a speedy influence on me.
Sun, June 6: Hopefully some biking... I don't know where, maybe Shantry flats (I also did that on ditch day, whenever ditch day was). More on that later, hopefully.