Time: lunch
Where: DT Bellevue Park
Workout: the usual 5 miles interval routine
Notes and observations: Long work week. I was out of gas and could feel it. Gearing up for 12 miles on Mother’s Day. Woot!
Music: random running playlist
Run 5.11
run 5.9
Time: before work
Where: gym, treadmill
Workout: 4 miles, with half of it (or more) at a higher tempo, around a 9:10 pace … 39:30
Notes and observations: Sometimes you just gotta do your time on the treadmill. Pretty uneventful. So it goes.
Music: Beat the bridge playlist. Thought I’d take the time to tell you what is on this playlist:
- Immigrant Song – Zeppelin
- Say Hey (I Love You) – Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Radio Nowhere – Bruce
- Hands Open – Snow Patrol
- When I Come Around – Green Day
- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend
- Ring The Bells – James
- Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
- Daughter – PJ
- Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
- Tainted Love – Bizarre Love Triangle
- Love Song For No One – John Mayer
- Black Dog (my run today ended on this one)
- A Little Respect – Erasure
- You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift
- Let My Love Open The Door – Pete Townshend
- Walls (No. 3) – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Bet you never thought you’d see a mix with Led Zeppelin AND Taylor Swift! Am i right or am i right?!?
Cake Break
Finally downloaded this to the PC, and finally finally uploaded it to Flickr. This is our “go-to” cake from Metropolitan Market, with the added flair of a personalized message.
Oh. And someone at work mentioned that he thought I was like 30 or something.
What the wha?!?
run 5.6
Time: 7:45 am
Where: Burke Gilman Trail heading towards Fremont
Workout: 10 miles LSD
Notes and observations: The most important thing I learned is that Fremont’s section of the B-G does not have mile markers, that I could see at least. So miles 5 & 6 were slightly more than expected. Couple of interesting notes. 1) At some point in the run, I get cold. On this day it was around mile 8 that I had to put my long sleeve shirt back on. 2) Almost immediately following putting the shirt back on, I felt a second wind. I can’t entirely explain it except that I found myself running much faster than the previous couple of miles, and it felt really really good. My splits may not show this, because there was an extensively long traffic light I had to wait for during this time. But, it felt surprisingly good and I really took note of it. 3) I really need to learn to take and drink water during these longer runs. Gels, too. I could feel myself emptying, which is just a terrible feeling.
Music: Foo Fighters on shuffle, of course! “The Pretender” is a good song that picks me up whenever it plays. Same goes for “Times Like These” and “These Days”. Yeah!
run 5.4
Time: lunch
Where: DT Bellevue Park
Workout: 5 miles, with intervals (1′ on, 1’30 off x 10)
Notes and observations: My Thursday run got pushed to Friday. So my Saturday run got pushed to Sunday. Likely scenario this week as well. Nothing special here, though I am getting burned out at this park. It’s easy, though, and I don’t have to think. I do dread the stairs and incline, even if they aren’t a big deal. Because I am so competitive against myself, I can’t even fathom running in the opposite direction, so that I go down the stairs instead of up; or taking the path more travelled, thus skipping the slight incline. Really, it’s because I’m an idiot.
Music:
lift 5.2
Time: before work
Where: gym
Workout: It was too long ago, so I can’t remember. I’m adding this post in to check off that I did do this.
Notes and observations: as my days and weeks get busier the workout that suffers is the strength training. I managed to get one in last week, and probably will not get one in this week.
Music:
run 5.1
Time: lunch
Where: around bellevue
Workout: 3.5 miles
Notes and observations: So. Mapmyrun reports that the run I’ve been doing the past couple of weeks that I thought was around 4 miles, is actually only 3.5! So what I thought was an excellent time of around 35 minutes is actually quite slow! But I’ll give myself an out and remind everyone that there are several traffic lights that I wait for during this run. Okay, about 2 traffic lights. My mid-week runs are not at the level they are supposed to be, but time has been short lately. Work has been C-R-A-Z-Y, so I’m just happy to be doing something.
Music: Green Day, American Idiot. I think. Who knows? Now I remember … it was my “run” playlist that i started. Lots of Killers and Foo.
Hey! Today was my anniversary! I spent it at work. Woo.
run 4.29
Time: 8:30
Where: Green Lake
Workout: 5 K
Notes and observations: First weekend since I started training seriously that I did not do the prescribed workout. I skipped Saturday and ran a 5K race on Sunday (the top pot 5k doughnut dash). My time: 27:24. My pace: 8:50. I’m sure I could have been faster but I started off near the back of the pack and spent the first mile bobbing and weaving my way towards a comfortable spot. There were people running this race, dressed as doughnuts. I literally chased a maple bar the entire 5K. And the maple bar beat me!
Oh yeah, and we all got a real doughnut at the end. Well, some runners had theirs before the race started, but that’s no way to run a race! Glazed. mmmm ….
Music: Beat the Bridge playlist. It’s a good one!
Cardio 4.27
Time: before work
Where: gym, elliptical trainer
Workout: 40 minutes steady state
Notes and observations: Friday is usually my rest day but since I skipped Wednesday I felt obliged to do something. I was reading a fun book so did what I call my lazy workout, a lengthy steady state cardio job where I can read. Usually I do the stairmill as it makes me sweat like nobody’s business and reading makes the time go by so quickly. But my knee problem led me to the elliptical. Good book!
Music: Taylor swift, Fearless
Run 4.26
Time: lunch
Where: Bellevue downtown park
Workout: 5 miles with intervals 1′ on 1’30″ off x 9
Notes and observations: My big fear, I lose track of how many loops I ran. The goal was 7 but it might have been 6. I still did 9 intervals, though.
Times was under 40 min, which is why I suspect I missed a loop (so 4.5 instead of 5 miles). Oh well. It happens.
Music: can’t remember!
