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Monday Jun 1, 2009 #
trail running 51:37 [3] 6.0 mi (8:36 / mi)
rhr:50 weight:133lbs
Mill River to Atkins Reservoir and back, a route I've run several times with Phil because it's close to UMass. It also is flat for the first mile or so, and I felt like I needed that, though it climbs some thereafter.
Really good run. Meaning a good time without a really hard effort, maybe the intensity was 3.5, but certainly not 4. Felt good, even up the hills.
Splits: 8:53 at junction for RF going north, 14:00 crossing main road, 16:30 crossing Market Hill Rd., 22:45 crossing flat Hills Road, 27:45 at turnaround. Back: 5:20 FH Rd., 10:11 MH Rd., 12:11 main road, 16:39 RF junction, 23:52 back. Cruising.
Quads still quite sore from last couple of days.
Really good run. Meaning a good time without a really hard effort, maybe the intensity was 3.5, but certainly not 4. Felt good, even up the hills.
Splits: 8:53 at junction for RF going north, 14:00 crossing main road, 16:30 crossing Market Hill Rd., 22:45 crossing flat Hills Road, 27:45 at turnaround. Back: 5:20 FH Rd., 10:11 MH Rd., 12:11 main road, 16:39 RF junction, 23:52 back. Cruising.
Quads still quite sore from last couple of days.
Note
A pleasant surprise.
Best leg was 6-7, good route, moving well the whole time, reading the map well on the go, and thinking correctly on the approach -- on the compass, reading how the control sat on the slope, plus aware that I was going for the right-hand boulder. No way I was going to miss. Felt that way on every control.
Got to keep that mental focus and keep working on the fitness. And at some point on the "fighting spirit." Need to be running the course 4 minutes faster, and some of that comes from just willpower. (Not just the willpower on the day, but the willpower to train in the weeks before.)
Best leg was 6-7, good route, moving well the whole time, reading the map well on the go, and thinking correctly on the approach -- on the compass, reading how the control sat on the slope, plus aware that I was going for the right-hand boulder. No way I was going to miss. Felt that way on every control.
Got to keep that mental focus and keep working on the fitness. And at some point on the "fighting spirit." Need to be running the course 4 minutes faster, and some of that comes from just willpower. (Not just the willpower on the day, but the willpower to train in the weeks before.)
Note
When I was having a hard time signing up for the Oringen at the end of last week, I had a feeling mine wasn't an isolated case. Seems it wasn't. (The gist -- they have lots of pissed-off people, so the entry deadline has been extended a few days.)