Shoes take a bit of time to dry, apparently.
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Happy 2011!!! Resolution Run/Polar Bear Dive done!
It was super fun and there were tons of people. The trail at Magnuson Park was ICY, and the massive crowd of runners also slowed us down quite a bit for the first half of the race. Including the dive, our time was 31:03 (10:01 pace).
I also ran THE ENTIRE TIME. A first!
Aaron ran with me, which was nice since he can kill a 5K in 23 minutes. It was fun to do the plunge and run shuffle across the icy finish line together.
Yeah, the 100 yards from the lake to the finish line consisted of a solid sheet of ice. We shuffled.
I was surprised by how not-cold I was after the dive. The sun was out, and it actually felt nice to cool down after the sweaty run! We also enjoyed free hot chili after the race… yum!
Such a fun race to kick off 2011!
Super excited about my new running tights. They feel like wetsuit material, which will be of use tomorrow.
Gonna be so cold.
There’s also a preview of our custom-made team t-shirts. And by custom-made, I mean Aaron drew/designed them and I just supervised.
Happy New Year! See you in 2011!
OH, and…
…ran by a guy wearing an Ironman 70.3 shirt. He went halfsies at it. Halvesies?
Anyway. Bomb.
First run in the new hood complete!
The still-uncalibrated watch says:
- 3.64 miles
- 31:19 time
- 8:36 pace (ha! I wish!)
I’m gonna go ahead and say it was at least a 3-miler, and that’s what I was going for.
I am THRILLED with the proximity of the Burke-Gilman trail to my new place. Big time. I’d say it took about 3 minutes to run there.
Ran to Fremont and back on the Burke. Saw a guy doing yoga along the Fremont canal (love Seattle). My knees and right hip hurt a bit, but I’m gonna chalk that up to the fact that it is cold as a MOTHER outside.
Pro tip: On a beautiful, sunny, winter day, don’t wait until the sun is about to set to go for a run.
Shower. Goodwill. Boom.
Day off
Done:
- Delicious breakfast cooked and eaten (egg in a hole, plus sauteed zucchini, peppers and wilted spinach)
- Utility accounts set up (water/sewer/garbage, electricity, gas)
- Christmas chocolate sampled (oops)
- Load of dishes and laundry washed (yay, clean things!)
To do:
- Unpack and organize the rest of my bedroom (5 boxes to go)
- Clean anything still dusty/dirty from storage, plus the sliding glass door to my balcony (!!!)
- Take junk to Goodwill; buy needed.items (plates, bowls, can opener, cutting board)
- RUN around new neighborhood (3 miles)
- Shower and become presentable to other human beings (word)
Thank you, Tumblr, for helping me get organized!
Here’s a sad little run run/walk/die/walk/run/die situation for ya.
I did this on the treadmill while wearing my Sportband so I could compare the numbers on the watch to the numbers on the treadmill and calibrate the watch correctly (assuming the treadmill is correct… which I’m not sure it is).
I didn’t count on DYING a mile and a half into the run and then struggling for the entire rest of it.
I ran the first mile at a 10:00 pace (so said the treadmill). That felt great, so I decided I was cool enough to try to run the second mile at a 9:30 pace (so said the treadmill). Half a mile in, I got a sharp pain in the middle of my body above my stomach. Not sure which organ/muscle/whatever that is, but it was exploding.
So I walked, tried to run again, pain exploded, walked again and then ran some more at a slower pace. I tried to bump it up at the end to finish strong, but then the pain exploded again and I finished the workout walking. Bummer.
Here are head-to-head numbers from the treadmill and the Sportband for the same workout (the timing is a little off; my simultaneous-button-pressing isn’t all that great):
Treadmill
Distance: 3.18 miles
Time: 35:00
Sportband
Distance: 3.36 miles
Time: 34:21
The Sportband is obviously a bit over on the mileage, so I’ll be able to use these numbers to make it more accurate. After this, I wonder how the Sportband will do when I run a known distance outside? I’ll need to hit a track to do a mile and see if it’s really accurate then.
Lesson from tonight: Slow and steady is better than too fast and hard. I’d rather have a longer, pain-free run than try to push too hard and have it ruin my whole run.
Sunday’s post-run lunch.
Tomato-basil soup courtesy of Safeway. Gruyere grilled cheese courtesy of heaven.
(Please excuse my looking like an alien.)
Sunday run to Green Lake, around and back (same route as last Thursday).
The watch said 5.07 miles; Map My Run says the route was 4.38 miles. I’m inclined to believe Map My Run, since I was NOT running at a 9:03 pace!
4.38 miles in 45:53 means a 10:28 average pace. Much more plausible.
Must. Calibrate. Watch.
A sunny run to and around Green Lake. Four miles down, one more to go as I head back.
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