Rest of the week

Can't remember a lot of the details, but have been playing a lot of ball and climbing a lot of stairs:

• Wednesday: Run + Stepper + life arms
• Thursday: VB + run + stepper + lift legs
• Friday: VB + run + stepper + jump rope
• Saturday: Art Museum run, 30min stepper, 1mi cooldown
• Tonight: 6mi treadmill run in 43min.

All this lifting and stepping has given me a few new fast gears. Everything feels good now.

New Plan

Sunday: 3mi run, 20min stepper, vb circuits.

Monday: vb game, 2mi run, 10min stepper, vb circuits.

Two weeks and two days

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind in more ways than one (Pigs what?! :-) I did something active most days in Boulder, San Francisco, and around Palo Alto, but can't remember them all. Some highlights:

• Hard treadmill workout at hotel on the first night in SF
• Many runs down the Embarcadero (one fast one with J--each of us pushing hard trying to keep up with the other), tough finish up to Nob Hill along Powell
• Two vb games with Wharton West kids
• Few runs out up over Fort Mason and out by Crissy Field; one long one onto the Golden Gate Bridge
• Long walk in/around Berkeley with R
• Bike ride across Golden Gate Bridge and around Marin headlands
• Bike ride up over the ridge and through Big Basin, ending in Santa Cruz
• Morning run through Menlo Park / Palo Alto, getting lost around Stanford dish
• Walk through Palo Alto with C, meeting Oma

And now, home in Philly, and heading to Pottruck, but I'll be back: Bay to Breakers in May for sure, and maybe SFM??

Around New Years

New Years Eve: Ran 5mi to Girard St Bridge.

New Years Day: Ran 6mi, Sweet Briar Loop

Jan 2: travel to Boulder, DNR.

Jan 3: 12mi running behind mom on the bike (in picture).

Philly

Yesterday: 3mi on the crappy basement treadmill.

Today: briefly back in Philly before shipping out to POPL in San Francisco. Strawberry Mansion loop (home -> Pottruck), which is evidently 10.5mi. Then lifted upper body.

More from BMore

Chrisssssmas!: 4mi Inner Harbor loop.

Boxing Day: DNR

Dec 27: 4.5mi at Tita's swanky gym, full leg circuit, ran home (another 2.5)

Dec 28: Just under 8mi on the NCRT from Monkton.

Baltimore Holiday

Friday: DNR

Saturday: 52min run in Robert E Lee Park

Sunday Morning: 4mi run around Dru Hill Reservoir, fast.

Sunday Night: 8mi run (shown) behind Zoo, through Hampden with Clare.

Monday: 55min run down towards Fort.

Columbia Bridge

Ran this 8mi loop in just a few ticks over an hour. It was an ideal day for running: sunny, breezy, mid 40s. Kicked it up a little for the two of the measured miles down W River Dr--those two miles 6:50 and 6:40--and otherwise ran at a very comfortable pace.

Strawberry Mansion

Last run with Blitzer of '07. Strawberry mansion loop, "conversational" pace, around 10 miles, about 1h20m.

It's cold yo.

More specifically, my room is cold. I hate using the extra electricity to power my space heater, so I throw on fleecy pants, a heavy sweatshirt, and big rag socks. But then I get changed to run and I'm already chilled. Mainlining tea is the only solution.

Ran Sweetbriar loop to Pottruck (via Mantua), then 2mi on the 'mill. So 7 miles total?

Weekend

My last sprint to the finish was camera-ready for PLAN-X. It knocked me out pretty bad. I snuck to Pottruck and ran 3mi on the treadmill on Friday in an effort to get some energy for one last read-through, but wasn't feeling it.

In Baltimore this weekend I slept something like 32hrs: 10 on Friday night, 3hr nap on Saturday, another 11hrs on Saturday, another 4hr nap on Sunday evening, and 5hrs last night. I guess I was tired. Ran 4mi (Dru Hill loop) on Sunday night and 4mi at Pottruck in Philly this morning and another 4mi this evening.

Pottruck

The numbers: 2mi warmup (very easy, with strides at the end of every .5mi) in 14:3x; 5x800m at 9.4-10mph with 1min walk, 1.5min jog to recover; 5min cooldown = 49 minutes total, 6.3mi. 15min easy bike cooldown.

Depicted

First, the running: 6.8mi on the Sweetbriar / Girard / Lemon Hill Loop from Pottruck, back via 22nd St to Walnut. 20min on the bike to cool down. Second, the photos (clockwise from top left): new running gadget ($28 at REI outlet; couldn't pass it up at that price!), Philly finish photo, map of tonight's run, salty/goose poo-y tights from last week.

Bookends

Morning: 4mi easy run to Lloyd Hall and back. 4mi

Evening: 3mi on treadmill, first half easy, second half progression up to 6:30 pace. Total 21:1x. Full leg lifting circuit.

Wet one

Ran a cold, wet Sweetbriar loop from Pottruck; back via Mantua. 5mi total. Then did 2mi fast (13:2x) on the 'mill.

Weekend

Saturday: something close to 11mi, "hilly" (for Philly) run through W Fairmount Park. Home to Kimmel (where I got the *last* ticket for Hélène Grimaud!)

Sunday: 5mi on Pottruck 'mill.

Happy Hour

I used to joke to Cara2 about "My Happy Hour" on Fridays: i.e., while everyone else boozes up, I'm be out running or biking. I put on the ColdGear and had a nice Happy 53 minutes out to the Columbia Bridge and back = 7 1/4 miles.

Slow beast

Somehow, I have been a publishing like a beast. POPL, PADL, PLAN-X, IEEE DEBull in the last few months, and PODS submitted late last night. The running has suffered this week due to the sprint to the latest deadline, but I suppose that's OK. No racing until spring anyways, so the New Plan can wait a few days.

Today: 4mi on the 'mill in 28 sumpin-sumpin. 5min bike cooldown.

I really really want to run outside tomorrow AM.

Chug chug

PODS almost done. Snuck in another 3mi at Pottruck. Looking forward to a longer run on Thursday.

Monday

Still cranking on PODS.

Snuck to Pottruck for 4.5 on the 'mill.