My normal 6 mile run around the green and fairgrounds was interesting. I was trying to keep my cadence higher, which ultimately meant that I would expect my heartrate to be higher. I was shooting for my "Zone 4" which would be between 160-168 bpm.
The interesting part is that even though my perceived exertion and HR exertion was higher, my time for this loop was only about 30 seconds faster. Maybe that's OK. I will have to talk to Coach Ruser about that, but I would have hoped for something more in the 2 minute range.
That said, with the lack of sleep and time change playing chaos with my body, I am not surprised that the HR was a bit inflated even without the intentional extra effort. Undoubtedly that dampened any performance gains made.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Intercontinental Running
I went out for a run at 9:00PM on Tuesday. Why so late? Because my body thought it was 4:00, I had had dinner already and the internet connection wasn't strong enough at the hotel to do work.
England is a great place to run. They have all of these "footpaths" that take you through fields, graveyards, seawalls and farms. While I had to ask for directions back to the hotel after half an hour, I had a great time and it really was nice to have a change in scenery.
The most interesting part of the whole run? I saw spots for about 5 minutes. Nice glowing objects in the middle of my eyes. I am not going to get too wrapped up in this. It was dusk out, and I was dealing with time zone issues. But still, weird. I wasn't working that hard, and felt very good.
I got back to the hotel just before 10:00PM and it was still somewhat light out! Wow.
England is a great place to run. They have all of these "footpaths" that take you through fields, graveyards, seawalls and farms. While I had to ask for directions back to the hotel after half an hour, I had a great time and it really was nice to have a change in scenery.
The most interesting part of the whole run? I saw spots for about 5 minutes. Nice glowing objects in the middle of my eyes. I am not going to get too wrapped up in this. It was dusk out, and I was dealing with time zone issues. But still, weird. I wasn't working that hard, and felt very good.
I got back to the hotel just before 10:00PM and it was still somewhat light out! Wow.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
2 for 2 - or - DQ'ed (again)
Fairfield Du-It
DQ'ed. Not my fault at all. Even the race director gives a "mea culpa" as one catholic described it to me. That means that I have DQ'ed from 2 out of 3 official races and 2 out of 4 total races. Yes, I have a complex about that.
The 2 for 2? I have now dropped a water bottle in 2 straight races. I am going to get arrested for littering at some point.
It wasn't a bad race though for me. My bike needs a lot of work, but the run cadence was great and the 1st run time wasn't far off of where I was hoping. Don't get me wrong, I was much more pleased with the Greenwich cup performance, but the stats on this race were fine with me (with the exception of T2 and R2 when I knew I was DQ'ed and was just for exercise at that point).
Results posted here. Note 13th place.
Many thanks to Peter Fitton for heading south with me for this race. He sounded pretty upbeat about the whole thing.
DQ'ed. Not my fault at all. Even the race director gives a "mea culpa" as one catholic described it to me. That means that I have DQ'ed from 2 out of 3 official races and 2 out of 4 total races. Yes, I have a complex about that.
The 2 for 2? I have now dropped a water bottle in 2 straight races. I am going to get arrested for littering at some point.
It wasn't a bad race though for me. My bike needs a lot of work, but the run cadence was great and the 1st run time wasn't far off of where I was hoping. Don't get me wrong, I was much more pleased with the Greenwich cup performance, but the stats on this race were fine with me (with the exception of T2 and R2 when I knew I was DQ'ed and was just for exercise at that point).
Results posted here. Note 13th place.
Many thanks to Peter Fitton for heading south with me for this race. He sounded pretty upbeat about the whole thing.
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