Park to Park 10K, Shea Stadium, Birthday
by Robert James Reese » Sunday, July 13th, 2008 » 0 Comments
This will be a quick entry as I am still completely overwhelmed with work. In fact, I really shouldn't even be writing here now. I'm totally using this as a method of procrastination. It's 2:00 Sunday afternoon and I still haven't begun the work that I had planned to start on Friday evening. Yikes! So, you ask, what I have been doing instead? Let me tell you...
I ran the Park to Park 10K this morning, but as a training run and not as a race – I was coming off a 10 mile run yesterday (which was part of an almost 40 mile week of running) and so my legs were understandably fatigued. I decided earlier in the week that getting a long run in this weekend was more important than doing well on the 10K since my half-marathon is coming up in just two weeks. So I decided to do 12 yesterday and then just an easy 6 today. Unfortunately, my long run yesterday didn't end up as long as planned – Instead of 12 miles, I only did 10. I was suffering from some really bad cramps in my right quad and left calf – I think I may have been dehydrated a bit. Considering that, I had really low expectations for today. But, today's run went better than expected. I was able to start slow and steady like I wanted to and maintained a super-consistent pace throughout the 6 miles. I ended up at 43:44, which normally would have disappointed me, but today I was very happy with it. I started the race with Antonio (who did the 10 with me yesterday and was also going to take it slow today) but he quickly ran ahead of me and finished in 40:05. I saw Sarah and met her family at the start of the race too. As always, it was nice to see familiar faces out at the race. The course was awesome – We started up at 102nd Street on the east side so I was able to just walk down from my house instead of having to deal with the subway and then we went counter-clockwise and got the big nasty hill out of the way quick. That's always a plus.
Well, as I mentioned, I have almost 40 miles in for the week. I'm actually worried that it might be a little much. I feel like my body is slowing down and fighting me a lot. The thing is, I'm not sure whether it's because of the increase in mileage or because of the heat. Probably, it's a combination of both. But, either way, I'm worried about my upcoming half-marathon. I have run into serious troubles on all my long runs lately and haven't been able to get much past 10 miles. I'm hitting this wall of fatigue right there. That certainly doesn't bring the level of confidence that I'd like to have going into such an important race.
Yesterday was the start of my twenty-sixth year of life. Although I wasn't at all happy about turning 25, the day itself was at least good. I went out to Queens and saw the Rockies play the Mets with Sareeka (photos). I'd never been out to Shea Stadium before and figured that I should do that before they tear it down. Plus, I figured the Rockies could use all the support they could get out here in hostile territory. Unfortunately, my support wasn't enough – they still lost 3-0. Regardless, we had a fun time at the game and then went and wandered around Queens a bit. I've never been there before (except driving through on my way to and from LaGuardia) so it was kinda cool to see some new territory. We ended up eating at a diner and I got this huge waffle with ice cream and whipped cream and sprinkles. I very rarely eat sweets, so that was a huge shock to my system and I actually felt rather ill for the rest of the night, but it was totally worth it because it tasted so good. We found a sidewalk book seller too and I came home with a huge armful of books. My bookshelves are both filled to the brim now. I'm going to have to figure out where to start putting new ones. Maybe I'll have to buy another shelf.
Well, off to work for real now. I need to put a couple finishing touches on the Mirabella at La Reserve website and then I'm going to be doing still more work on the Flopalongs. I'm so anxious to get those projects wrapped up so I can get back to working on my own sites. I feel like I've been neglecting them.
Look at me procrastinating again... For real, this is the end. Good bye.
I ran the Park to Park 10K this morning, but as a training run and not as a race – I was coming off a 10 mile run yesterday (which was part of an almost 40 mile week of running) and so my legs were understandably fatigued. I decided earlier in the week that getting a long run in this weekend was more important than doing well on the 10K since my half-marathon is coming up in just two weeks. So I decided to do 12 yesterday and then just an easy 6 today. Unfortunately, my long run yesterday didn't end up as long as planned – Instead of 12 miles, I only did 10. I was suffering from some really bad cramps in my right quad and left calf – I think I may have been dehydrated a bit. Considering that, I had really low expectations for today. But, today's run went better than expected. I was able to start slow and steady like I wanted to and maintained a super-consistent pace throughout the 6 miles. I ended up at 43:44, which normally would have disappointed me, but today I was very happy with it. I started the race with Antonio (who did the 10 with me yesterday and was also going to take it slow today) but he quickly ran ahead of me and finished in 40:05. I saw Sarah and met her family at the start of the race too. As always, it was nice to see familiar faces out at the race. The course was awesome – We started up at 102nd Street on the east side so I was able to just walk down from my house instead of having to deal with the subway and then we went counter-clockwise and got the big nasty hill out of the way quick. That's always a plus.
Well, as I mentioned, I have almost 40 miles in for the week. I'm actually worried that it might be a little much. I feel like my body is slowing down and fighting me a lot. The thing is, I'm not sure whether it's because of the increase in mileage or because of the heat. Probably, it's a combination of both. But, either way, I'm worried about my upcoming half-marathon. I have run into serious troubles on all my long runs lately and haven't been able to get much past 10 miles. I'm hitting this wall of fatigue right there. That certainly doesn't bring the level of confidence that I'd like to have going into such an important race.
Yesterday was the start of my twenty-sixth year of life. Although I wasn't at all happy about turning 25, the day itself was at least good. I went out to Queens and saw the Rockies play the Mets with Sareeka (photos). I'd never been out to Shea Stadium before and figured that I should do that before they tear it down. Plus, I figured the Rockies could use all the support they could get out here in hostile territory. Unfortunately, my support wasn't enough – they still lost 3-0. Regardless, we had a fun time at the game and then went and wandered around Queens a bit. I've never been there before (except driving through on my way to and from LaGuardia) so it was kinda cool to see some new territory. We ended up eating at a diner and I got this huge waffle with ice cream and whipped cream and sprinkles. I very rarely eat sweets, so that was a huge shock to my system and I actually felt rather ill for the rest of the night, but it was totally worth it because it tasted so good. We found a sidewalk book seller too and I came home with a huge armful of books. My bookshelves are both filled to the brim now. I'm going to have to figure out where to start putting new ones. Maybe I'll have to buy another shelf.
Well, off to work for real now. I need to put a couple finishing touches on the Mirabella at La Reserve website and then I'm going to be doing still more work on the Flopalongs. I'm so anxious to get those projects wrapped up so I can get back to working on my own sites. I feel like I've been neglecting them.
Look at me procrastinating again... For real, this is the end. Good bye.
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