Sun. Oct. 28, 2007
9am - 11 miles
Today was another Sunday where we drove down 30 minutes to Orange County to go for a run out of our everyday monotony. Today we were running down at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. It was not as crazy as I thought it was going to be, it was pretty much a dirt road that went along a spillway. Nothing special, but it was nice to get off the roads again. Matt and I ran 11, and I think both of us really were happy that the other didn't want to go further. My legs were pretty tired today, and it was a happy thought for me to do 11 instead of 13-15.
Afterwards we all went to eat at the Shorehouse Cafe. Super Oatmeal and an Omelette with cheese, broccoli and carne asada.
Worked for 5 hours.
11 Miles today
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Through the Palisades
Sat. Oct. 27, 2007
9am - 11 miles
Headed up to 4th and Marguerita at 9 am to meet the team and do a steady 11 miles on the "north rollercoaster loop" which runs through northern Santa Monica into the Palisades. It was a descently hilly loop, but nothing too bad. We started out pretty slow, just jogging the first mile or two. We ran in a small group for the first 1 or so with Eric, Matt, Dennis and myself, and of course no Ozzie today. He is supposed to be my training partner and I have seen him twice in the past 6 weeks, yea, I am getting alot out of training with him. So after the first mile we hit hit a nice steady incline for about a half mile or so, and Matt decided to start picking up the pace, so this was where the group split. We strung out a bit, and at first I was having a hard time keeping up becuase he is such a good hill climber. After a little bit I decided to push a bit just to catch him, and from then on him and I cruised the run at a good clip. After like 3 miles or so, we slowed down just to let Libby catch us cause he was running by himself. We ran through some really nice houses up there. Russell Crowe, Britany Spears and a couple other big names celeb houses. After a while though, Matt and I decided to pick up the pace a bit and we ended up leaving Libby a little ways back, but he was only doing 8 miles, so he was going to turn off soon anyways. Matt and I probably cruised our last 3 miles between 5:30-5:00 min mile pace, and it felt pretty relaxed. So all and all it was a good run.
Then I went to work for 6 hrs, hooray.
11 miles today - 1.08:02
Thursday
Thurs. Oct. 25, 2007
6:30am - 3 miles
5pm - 8 miles
Ran by myself in the morning cause Libby decided to sleep in.
After I came back from USC Libby and I went running, however he didn't want to run as far as I was going. So I decided to have him meet me down by the woodchip trail. I ran the first 2 miles by myself at a descent pace, and met up with him and ran another 5 miles with him, then added another 1 mile at the end.
8 miles today
6:30am - 3 miles
5pm - 8 miles
Ran by myself in the morning cause Libby decided to sleep in.
After I came back from USC Libby and I went running, however he didn't want to run as far as I was going. So I decided to have him meet me down by the woodchip trail. I ran the first 2 miles by myself at a descent pace, and met up with him and ran another 5 miles with him, then added another 1 mile at the end.
8 miles today
Friday, October 26, 2007
Run around a park for a while
Fri. Oct. 26, 2007
7:30am - 3 miles
6pm - 8 miles
Had a little bit of a late start this morning. I set my alarm for 6 am, but kept hitting the snooze till 7:30. Who doesn't love that snooze button. Ran my 3 miles, then headed for a few hours of work.
Got back home and looked up some stuff on Oregon with Libby. New possibility: Come December, its gonna be either Oregon with Libby, or back to NY by myself. I'm almost 100% positive that I will not stay in CA after Dec. The weather is great and I love having Skip as a coach, but that is about it. The traffic here is too much, the running sucks, and by that I mean its all roads, and I prefer trails. So I have to decide whether I want to go home to NY and train with the Westchester Track Club, have the trails that I love to run on, a job working 30-40 hrs a week with my high school coach Nuge at a running store, and live at home with my parents which would be a nice comfort blanket becuase I do miss them and my family. The other option would be to go 1,000 miles north to Eugene, OR, and run with Team XO, not be positive until a few weeks from now about a job, housing (which I have considered buying a shitty RV to live in with Libby), but have tons of other great runners to train with in the Mecca of running. Besides the rain, can there be any place better than Eugene to train and run? I dunno, there is a lot to weigh on my plate for these next few weeks. I know I would like Eugene a lot more than here due to the fact that it is the Maine of the West Coast, minus the snow and freezing, and substitute cold and rain. I loved Maine except for the cold and snow that lasted FOREVER. I wouldn't mind hearing a few opinions if people want to comment, it is always good hearing other peoples thoughts.
Libby and I ran a bunch of loops around this sketchy park near the house here for a total of 6.5 miles for him and 8 miles for me. It was nice to get off the road for a day.
11 miles today
7:30am - 3 miles
6pm - 8 miles
Had a little bit of a late start this morning. I set my alarm for 6 am, but kept hitting the snooze till 7:30. Who doesn't love that snooze button. Ran my 3 miles, then headed for a few hours of work.
Got back home and looked up some stuff on Oregon with Libby. New possibility: Come December, its gonna be either Oregon with Libby, or back to NY by myself. I'm almost 100% positive that I will not stay in CA after Dec. The weather is great and I love having Skip as a coach, but that is about it. The traffic here is too much, the running sucks, and by that I mean its all roads, and I prefer trails. So I have to decide whether I want to go home to NY and train with the Westchester Track Club, have the trails that I love to run on, a job working 30-40 hrs a week with my high school coach Nuge at a running store, and live at home with my parents which would be a nice comfort blanket becuase I do miss them and my family. The other option would be to go 1,000 miles north to Eugene, OR, and run with Team XO, not be positive until a few weeks from now about a job, housing (which I have considered buying a shitty RV to live in with Libby), but have tons of other great runners to train with in the Mecca of running. Besides the rain, can there be any place better than Eugene to train and run? I dunno, there is a lot to weigh on my plate for these next few weeks. I know I would like Eugene a lot more than here due to the fact that it is the Maine of the West Coast, minus the snow and freezing, and substitute cold and rain. I loved Maine except for the cold and snow that lasted FOREVER. I wouldn't mind hearing a few opinions if people want to comment, it is always good hearing other peoples thoughts.
Libby and I ran a bunch of loops around this sketchy park near the house here for a total of 6.5 miles for him and 8 miles for me. It was nice to get off the road for a day.
11 miles today
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Grass Reps
Wed. Oct. 24, 2007
7:30am - 3 miles
2:30pm - 3 mile warm-up, 7x1000 rep. w/ 2 min rest, 2 mile cool down
This morning was like every other morning, did my run, stretched, ate and took a few hours of getting a lab report done. However, I was quite pissed to find out that the lab report wasn't due until next week, but its finished with now. Then ate my peanut butter, honey and banana on toast for lunch and headed to practice.
I warmed up at 2:30, did my drills and strides and then put on my light weight trainers. I have been recently running in my new Brooks Glycerine shoes, and I do like them alot, but having those and a heavy pair of orthotics in them really makes the shoes heavy. So i switched the shoes and headed to workout. Today's workout was 7 x 1000 rep w/ 2 min recovery running from 7th ave up to 11th and coming back down. This is all done on a grass island on San Vicente blvd. Skip read me the last workout I did here, and it was 5 x 1000 w/ 3 min recovery with an avg. of 3:01.
So today he wanted 2 more with 1 min less recovery per one, avg. about the same or so. So I went out and just wanted to be conservative for the first one, and I came in at a very comfortable 3:04. I felt pretty good today and knew it was gonna be a good workout, because I actually felt recovered from the past couple days and wanted to have a good workout. I would sip some water in between each rep., cause it was very hot today. My thousands for the day were (3:04, 3:01, 3:01, 3:02, 2:58, 2:57, 2:54) Avg. 2:59. I felt really relaxed and smooth today which was awesome. I also workout by myself, so throw someone else in there and I probably would have cruised a little bit faster. Very good workout day. Cooled down 2 miles and stretched a little, but not too much becuase I have to head to USC.
I think from where I am in Santa Monica for the workout to USC is about 15 miles or so, give or take a couple of miles. Every Wednesday I have to workout early so I can make it to USC for my lab. I usually leave right around 4pm hoping to get to USC in an hour, mind you its about 15 miles. Today took me 1 hr. 40 min. It is so frustrating to have to drive that long every Wed. and still be late to lab. Traffic out here is so bad, and there really is no way around it.
After lab, met up with Libby at Whole Foods and grabbed some grub and watched some of the Sox game there. I talked to my boy Jon for a little bit, good to hear from him and find out he is liking his new situation down in the city. For everyone who doesn't know, Jon and I grew up together about 20 ft. apart and did everything together as kids. Then I also talked to Jeff Caron, who I would like to congratulate on a nice $300 win at Foxwoods. Him and I just chatted about normal crap in our lives, running and girl situations, or lack there of. I will say though he has had more going on in that ballpark then me, keep swinging Jeff. Oh yeah and I almost forgot, I talked to the big Mark Lech today, my college coach. It was good to chat with him about things, and hear how things are going with the Black Bears.
13 miles today
7:30am - 3 miles
2:30pm - 3 mile warm-up, 7x1000 rep. w/ 2 min rest, 2 mile cool down
This morning was like every other morning, did my run, stretched, ate and took a few hours of getting a lab report done. However, I was quite pissed to find out that the lab report wasn't due until next week, but its finished with now. Then ate my peanut butter, honey and banana on toast for lunch and headed to practice.
I warmed up at 2:30, did my drills and strides and then put on my light weight trainers. I have been recently running in my new Brooks Glycerine shoes, and I do like them alot, but having those and a heavy pair of orthotics in them really makes the shoes heavy. So i switched the shoes and headed to workout. Today's workout was 7 x 1000 rep w/ 2 min recovery running from 7th ave up to 11th and coming back down. This is all done on a grass island on San Vicente blvd. Skip read me the last workout I did here, and it was 5 x 1000 w/ 3 min recovery with an avg. of 3:01.
So today he wanted 2 more with 1 min less recovery per one, avg. about the same or so. So I went out and just wanted to be conservative for the first one, and I came in at a very comfortable 3:04. I felt pretty good today and knew it was gonna be a good workout, because I actually felt recovered from the past couple days and wanted to have a good workout. I would sip some water in between each rep., cause it was very hot today. My thousands for the day were (3:04, 3:01, 3:01, 3:02, 2:58, 2:57, 2:54) Avg. 2:59. I felt really relaxed and smooth today which was awesome. I also workout by myself, so throw someone else in there and I probably would have cruised a little bit faster. Very good workout day. Cooled down 2 miles and stretched a little, but not too much becuase I have to head to USC.
I think from where I am in Santa Monica for the workout to USC is about 15 miles or so, give or take a couple of miles. Every Wednesday I have to workout early so I can make it to USC for my lab. I usually leave right around 4pm hoping to get to USC in an hour, mind you its about 15 miles. Today took me 1 hr. 40 min. It is so frustrating to have to drive that long every Wed. and still be late to lab. Traffic out here is so bad, and there really is no way around it.
After lab, met up with Libby at Whole Foods and grabbed some grub and watched some of the Sox game there. I talked to my boy Jon for a little bit, good to hear from him and find out he is liking his new situation down in the city. For everyone who doesn't know, Jon and I grew up together about 20 ft. apart and did everything together as kids. Then I also talked to Jeff Caron, who I would like to congratulate on a nice $300 win at Foxwoods. Him and I just chatted about normal crap in our lives, running and girl situations, or lack there of. I will say though he has had more going on in that ballpark then me, keep swinging Jeff. Oh yeah and I almost forgot, I talked to the big Mark Lech today, my college coach. It was good to chat with him about things, and hear how things are going with the Black Bears.
13 miles today
Google Earth run
Tues. Oct. 23, 2007
6:30am - 3 miles
5pm - 8 miles
Waking up at 6am I already noticed that today was going to be a hot day, 92 degrees today in Santa Monica. I got my morning run taken care of so I could come back, eat breakfast and then cram a little more for that nice 2nd Mid-term. I crammed for a few more hours, then headed to USC to take the test. I'm not really sure how it went, but its over, so all I can do is wait to see some results.
Later in the day, Libby and I planned out a run on the roads out here, becuase there is nowhere else to run besides roads. Truthfully, we are not in a very runner friendly area, and there are really no good places to run, it gets very annoying. We planned out a 6 mile run that lead us to a park, around the park and then back. It was a good run, and when I came back with Libby, I just tacked on a couple more miles.
Libby and I made some awesome steak fajitas
11 miles today
Oh yeah I also forgot, Libby and I have been making our own bread and granola.....it friggin kicks ass over all this store bought stuff. Now all we have to do is get some cows and chickens and we will be set.
6:30am - 3 miles
5pm - 8 miles
Waking up at 6am I already noticed that today was going to be a hot day, 92 degrees today in Santa Monica. I got my morning run taken care of so I could come back, eat breakfast and then cram a little more for that nice 2nd Mid-term. I crammed for a few more hours, then headed to USC to take the test. I'm not really sure how it went, but its over, so all I can do is wait to see some results.
Later in the day, Libby and I planned out a run on the roads out here, becuase there is nowhere else to run besides roads. Truthfully, we are not in a very runner friendly area, and there are really no good places to run, it gets very annoying. We planned out a 6 mile run that lead us to a park, around the park and then back. It was a good run, and when I came back with Libby, I just tacked on a couple more miles.
Libby and I made some awesome steak fajitas
11 miles today
Oh yeah I also forgot, Libby and I have been making our own bread and granola.....it friggin kicks ass over all this store bought stuff. Now all we have to do is get some cows and chickens and we will be set.
Monday
Mon. Oct. 22, 2007
6:30am - 3 miles
5pm - 6.75
My legs are definitly feeling a little bit sore after the race on Saturday and the run on Sunday morning, but its nothing to worry about, just a little soreness. I decided to call in to work today and tell them that I had alot of school work to get done today, and that I couldn't make it in. There is nothing like cramming for a test the day before.
We went up to Santa Monica for our Monday workout, which today was just an easy 6.75 plus drills and strides. This was a very happy day for me, cause I did not want to workout today. Matt could not make it today due to the fires near his house in Orange County, he apparantly had no power and other things happening. So it was just Libby and I doing the run together. There were a couple of other people there, but they can't run with us, so we do our own thing. We pretty much just cruised around 7 minute pace or so, nothing hard. We definitly noticed the smoke in the air from the Mailbu fire, it was pretty much all around the area wherever you went. This caused Jon on the team to have a small asthma attack, and the caused the rest of us to have really, REALLY dry and sore throats. After the run, we finished up with our drill, strides and stretching.
Monday nights and Wednesday nights Libby and I eat at Whole Foods, cause we get home so late and don't really feel like cooking and eating at 9:30 or 10 pm. Makes it a whole lot nicer on those days.
10 miles today
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