Still running, kinda

Friday: did 5mi on the treadmill.

Saturday: in Chicago, did 5k on the treadmill (21:1x)

Sunday: in Chicago, ran for somewhere between 45min and 1hr along Lake Michigan

Monday: zonked, DNR

Wednesday, Thursday

W: Woke up at 4.30am to see C off to the airport. Exhausted by day's end, so just 3.5mi on the mill.

R (using Williams registrar notation): Feeling better, but weather was yicky. 25min on the treadmill to warmup, then 40min (Pottruck to 34th through Mantua, around Zoological St, across Girard St bridge, down Lemon Hill, back on river trail to Chestnut St).

Sweetbriar Loop

Ugh. Legs did not feel great today. Ran the Sweetbriar loop from 34th & Walnut. 37 minutes.

Easter in Baltimore

Whew! Least runningest span in a LONG time. DNR Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. Finally got out for a 6-7 miler in Baltimore (Maybe house, around reservoir, down to Inner Harbor, back up Light/St Paul). Was chomping at the bit and ran the Loop to/from Pottruck on Monday back in Philly.

Pottruck

Late night for the Harmony guys, so I didn't get to Pottruck until around 10.30. Ran 5mi in 35:2x, then did a 3min jog to cool down.

W Fairmount Park

I love this loop. Did the shorter version, cutting in at Sweetbriar to get back to Hutch. Played VB with HammeRED, and sucked, then ran the last ~.75mi home. Probably up around 6mi total?

W Fairmount Park

Absolutely beautiful today. Ran a 7.3mi loop along W River Dr, then up through W Fairmount Park. Back through Mantua/Powelton Village.

Weekend

Saturday: Pigs played in Wharton tournament. We didn't do so well (knocked out in pool play). Had a tough pool--Harvard and Wharton A--and the games were close, but we should have done better than that. Argh.

Sunday: Ran 4mi around Art Museum. This will be a low-mileage week, I think, with paper writing...

Big catchup

Wow. I have fallen off the blogging.

Wednesday: ran 4mi--around the Art Museum--with strides on the return.

Thursday: hit some vbs, for about 20min before being kicked off by the Festival Latino. Sigh.

Friday: Did a late tuneup workout at Pottruck. Feeling sluggish and lazy and wanting to do something depleting, but knowing that would be stupid with tomorrow's tourney. So, just 1.5mi warmup run, then some jumprope and blockjumps. Hope I am nice and fresh and antsy tomorrow.

More catching up

Monday: did a run on W River Dr and back by the zoo and down 34th St. I think it was about 6mi. Biked 15min to stretch out the legs.

Tuesday: played vb @ Hutch, ran around the Art Museum, some strides at the end.

Loop

Catching up...

Friday: Ran 2.5mi on the 'mill, lifted full upper body circuit.

Saturday: Ran a fast 6.5mi loop on the river.

Sunday: Ran THE Loop at dusk.

Conshy

And on the rest day... he cycled. 28mi: through W Fairmont Park then out Bryn Mawr Ave to (hilly-ish!) Conshy St Rd to W Conshy. Crossed the river and came back via the path through Rox/Manayunk, then down Kelly Dr to Locust St. Nice break from the pounding of running.

NewLoop®

Ran a new version of the East Falls Loop: up 34th St, past the zoo, the gates with PA civil war generals, behind Memorial Hall and down to the river, then a regular W River Dr -> Kelly Dr loop, returning to Pottruck on Chestnut. 11mi, around 1h20m.

Columbia Bridge, Spin

Ran Pottruck <-> Columbia Bridge on the W River Dr side. There was a swirling wind the whole way, especially coming through the bridges. Ran a 6:20 measured mile from the 6.75 -> 7.75 markers on the way home, but otherwise the pace was easy--total time was around a few ticks under an hour.

Cooled down with a 10min spin on the stationary bike at Pottruck.

Hutch + Pottruck

Played ~90min of vb with Wharton and a few Pigs. It's so sluggish. Not too excited about vb currently.

Went to Pottruck after work for a 4mi run on the 'mill. Nothing special (29 min?)

Sunday

Ran a slushy East Falls Loop, or rather out-and-back (the W River Dr path was not powed). Except for scattered bits of muck on the ground, it was actually a nice day for it: sunny, blue skies and mid-40s; I didn't even wear a hat. The way back in was wind-aided, and therefore much faster than the out.

Saturday

Pottruck: 5mi on the treadmill in 34:4x, although I suspect that the thing was miscalibrated (or maybe I was just bouncy--got two new pairs of Asics 2110s on deep discount last week and they feel great). Then did 10min on the stepper, reluctantly. I hate that thing, but I must do something to get some vertical back for this volleyball shindig at the end of the month.

Friday

It was admitted student visit day, so I was swamped with meetings / presentations all day. Snuck out for a 3mi run at 3pm and another at 5pm. The first was nothing special, just miles; the second was a little quicker: mile splits of 7:06, 6:41, 6:19 for 20:06. Oh to be fast.

Thursday

3mi treadmile run in 20:4x, 15min stationary bike intervals; volleyball with Pigs/BEasts/HammeRED @ Hutch.

Pottruck

4mi on the treadmill, around 29min. That is all.