Charlestown Track 10x400

Ran over to the track with about a 30 minute window after work and banged this out. I had thought about something like 15x400 with a 200 jog, but as I was tight on time I figured I'd shorten the work and the rest. I did a 100m jog in between  which worked out to about a 40 second jog. Not a really tough workout but with minimal rest I was getting fatigued by the last two. Perfect weather, cool and dry with a slight breeze, if I had the time I would have liked to try and do 15.
1-1:29
2-1:29
3-1:31
4-1:31
5-1:27
6-1:30
7-1:29
8-1:29
9-1:25
10-1:23

Salem Green 5k Cross Country Race

Headed over to the Salem Green Golf Course on Sunday w/ the family. Nice race, lots of small steep hills and a ton of people. Really surprised to see so many people turn out for this. My kids hung out in the sand trap while I ran, a really great morning. Lately I have been thinking less and less about the marathon distance and more and more about the shorter stuff. I think I might bypass the spring marathon and aim for a decent 1/2 marathon time-mainly I just cannot get motivated to run more than 12 miles and run it slowly. We will see how the spring progresses, I might try and go a little longer this weekend. This race was a ton of fun and I am looking forward to hitting some more short races like this, plus it is fun w/ the family there.Results

Charlestown Track 6x800

Beautiful day, bit of a headwind but otherwise perfect running weather. Having not run this pace for some time, it was a bit of a shock to the system on the first two but the rest went by fairly solid. A good effort, not too tough, but no too easy either. Took a 1/2 lap jog in between.
1-3:07
2-3:12
3-3:13
4-3:11
5-3:10
6-3:03

A great weekend! With No Running!

Logged only 21 miles last week. A variety of ailments working through the house, I had a cough and fever Weds-Friday. My son has the same and my daughter had an earache, fever etc on Saturday morning. So with beautiful weather over the weekend I just decided to give my body a break from running and enjoy it. My poor wife and daughter spent Saturday morning in the doctor's so my son and I tried to make the best of it, so we ended up spending the morning at the beach!!!! It was absolutely a perfect day for flying kites, digging holes, and collecting "stuff" Was probably some of the best one on one time I've had with the little guy in a while. We went as a family to gammy and gampy's on sunday and had a great day burning leaves in the perfect weather. That afternoon Allison and I even got to spend about 3 hours alone recollecting on the joys of having been married for 7 years (Anniversary today).  I'll get back to the mileage this week and hopefully the fatigue and funk I've been trying to plod through for 2-3 weeks will be behind me.

C.R.A.S.H. B.'s 2010

I've gotten in pretty good shape over the last year so I figured I'd relive the Glory Years and head down to the Indoor Rowing World Championships on Feb 14th w/ my best bud Pat and hammer it out one more time. Last time I did this was 1998.  At about 900 meters down I remembered how brutal this sport is. It is unbelievable how in about 3 1/2 minutes you can feel utterly spent.  With no rowing under my belt but a significant amount of running I felt very confident aerobically going into it, but once I hit half way my legs just crapped out. My goal was 7 minutes and for the first 2/3 I was right on target, but the wheels came off the cart pretty quickly with about 800 to go. Final time was 7:03, Pat kicked my ass with a 6:54, there is always next year! Turned out to be a great day, grandparents had the kids so Allison and I went out for a nice  Valentine's dinner afterward.