900 Yards Swim

Swam 900 yards -- 1/2 mile tonight. The good part is I made the effort to get there. The last two nights other obligations have kept me busy until 8:15. You have to be out of the water at 8:45. Yesterday, I said, I don't have time, but feeling so badly afterward that I hadn't worked out, tonight, I made a dask for the pool and banged out a 1/2 mile and still had time for a few minutes in the jacuzzi. Oh yeah, again there was only me and one other person in the 11 land pool. Sweet.

I'm also signing up to a swim instruction deal. See attached:

Heat Swim

Track Run/Walk

I went to the track last last night while waiting for a girls basketball practice to be over. While the track was lit, the light barelyreached the ground. It was also pretty cold. I walked a half mile, ran a mile, walked a quarter, ran a mile and then walked a half before stretcheing and leaving. I don't like running in the dark and the cold.

Resovouir

Finally got time to get in a run. I went around the resovouir the opposite direction. I walked for the first five minutes, and then experimented with a 4-1 run/ walk in anticipation of using that as a way of training for a as yet unspecified half-marathon. I came in around 37-38 minutes with my last two mile splits being 11:30 and 11:44.

1000 Yard Swim

Swam 1000 Yards

5 K Run

Ran the resovouir in about 36 minutes. It was cold and I went slow, but it didn't feel too bad. First run since the 2nd of the month.

7 Mile Bike/1500 Yard Swim

Rode 7 miles in 34 minutes, and then tonight swam 1500 yards.

6.5 Mile Ride

Rode again today at work. tried first in the morning, but it was too cold, rode then in the afternoon, but was going real slow due to the wind. I was tired. Total 6.5 miles.

5 Mile Ride

Rode 5 miles is 25 minutes. Cool and windy.

8 Mile Bike

Rode 8 Miles at work in 34 minutes

15 Mile Bike/1000Yard Swim

Went for a 15 mile ride with a friend from work. We rode out in the countryside. What a difference from riding in a circle at work. It was a beautiful fall day. I definately need to do more of this kind of riding. All told we went for 52 minutes.

Later I swam 1000 yards.

8 Mile Bike

Rode 8 miles in 34 minutes at work. Back in the saddle. My goal is to ride at least 6-8 miles every day I work. As the weather gets colder I plan to switch back to the hybrid bike, and then return to the road bike in the Spring.

1250 Yard Swim

Nice and easy swim. It felt very good to be in the pool.

Got a bad cold that I am recovering from, but it has caused me to shut down for a spell, so no race 5K or 1/2 Marathon for me.

My short-term goal now is rest and to come up with a good training plan for the off-season, along with a reasonable list of goals.

Dream Races

SOS - Survival of the Shawangunks




St. Croix Reef Swim

Pratt and Whitney 3.27 Mile

My plan was to go fo my PR so I could do the Half-Marathon in 9 days as a walk run. I thought I could do it as it would be cool with a flat course.

We ran around Rentsler Field Stadium where the UCONN football team plays and then ran out along two abandoned runways and back. At mile one, which seemed to take awhile to get to, my time was 10:36, which seemed inconcievable to me. Talk about being bummed out. I felt tired, but thought I was moving along at a decent pace. Then I ran past a Mile 2 sign on the ground about 8 minutes later, and then a little beyond then I passed another mile 2 marker where a guy called out my time as 19:40, which meant my second mile was in 9:01. I was real tired on the homestretch, which again seemed long and I had almost no kick. I was really depressed to see the finishinging clock. 30:12. So much for improving. A second over 30:00 performance. I felt a little better to hear everyone grumbling at the finish about the course being long. I got a couple drinks, a banana, some peanuts, and then headed home.

I was pleased when I just went to the results page to see the race is now listed as a 3.27 miles instead of a 5K. That's almost 300 extra yards. My corrected mile pace is 9:14, which would give me a 5K of 28.37 which is a new PR. In the Huck Finn 5K last year I finished in 28:54 or a 9:19 pace.

Still I feel a bit cheated for not knowing my accurate times as I was running and not having an official 5K finish.

Results

Overall I finished 143 out of 193 and 24 out of 28th in my age group. I do notice the older you get the more serious the runner. Had I been 40 I would have been 29 out of 40, had I been 30 I would have been 29 out of 36. Most people running at 50 are serious and not just some guys who think they can run a 5K.

Undecided about my course of action for the marathon day, the 1/2 as a hike or go for speed in the 5K.

I posted on this race at the HEAT forum:

HEAT