Choir Concerts and Running

Hello, All!

My hope is to be more active on this blog for the next while since my progress won't be as apparent to all involved.

Tonight was the famed choir concert that my student, Guliya, had been talking about non-stop for the last three weeks. At 6:10, my mother and I showed up at her house in my parents' boxy blue Volvo and drove her and her very bored seventh grade brother to Meridian Middle School. (You'd have to be pretty bored to volunteer to sit in an auditorium for an hour and then watch your sister's concert, wouldn't you?) I sat through the first section of the concert where Guliya sang, and then promptly went outside to do speedwork on the middle school track. This was at about 7:40.

The track wasn't actually that rubbery track stuff but, instead, was just a bunch of red sand. (I don't know what it's called.) This was good and bad. On the one hand, it was a bit easier on the latest niggle in my right calf. On the other, it was irritating because I couldn't go nearly as far in the same amount of time it would take me on the greenbelt where I could get a little push-off.

Stage setting aside, here's the nitty gritty:

WORKOUT

40 minutes approx

TIME/DISTANCE/COURSE/PACE

Speed work on the track. I did a four-lap warm up, one minute easy, two minutes hard, one minute easy, two minutes hard, and so on. Essentially I did 5 2-minute pick-ups.

WEATHER

Chilly but manageable. It was getting dark and the headlamp was uncomfortable. God bless daylight savings time!

FEELINGS & EFFORT LEVEL (1-10, 10=all out):

I felt fine. Even my niggle wasn't acting up. Effort level ranged from 7-8.5 or so. Like I said before, it was frustrating not being able to cover as much ground because of the sand. Also, my stomach hurt because I had timed this run badly in relation to dinner. Ah well.

DAYS EVENTS

Just working, working, working all day.

SLEEP

Not much. Maybe 6 hours? My bad for staying up late.

DIET

Calories were good. No sweets today. Large breakfast, small lunch, medium-sized dinner and strawberries tonight for dessert.

RESTING HR

I need to figure out how to do this well enough that I trust the outcome.

WEIGHT

Really don't know. Probably heavy cuz of the time of the month. (Lovely, I know.)

NIGGLES

The classic left calf niggle has morphed into a right calf niggle. Like I said, though, it didn't bother me tonight.

OTHER CONDITIONING

None today. Aside from a bunch of running around saving seniors from last minute problems with their senior projects which were due today.

So, that was the work out! I wish I could give you a reasonable estimation of how far I was able to get how fast, but this was the best I could do under the circumstances.

Later!