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It's been a while.
Lots of running this week. It started off with a bang - 9 miles total on Monday, 8 on Tuesday (the workout was 6 by 3 minute pick-ups with 2 min recovery). Instead of taking either Wednesday or Friday off, I'm running light both days and taking next Monday off. By the end of the week, I should have over 50 miles in the books.
Saturday morning is a lactate threshold workout - 4 by 1600 with 1:00 walking recovery at 6:55. Exciting stuff! I love LT pace....
Yesterday I saw my teammate K in the hospital. She has had a really terrible string of luck lately. She tore her MCL at conferences in the long jump. Over spring break, she got really sick - really high fever that wouldn't go down. She went to the hospital and they diagnosed her with pneumonia and drained her lungs with a tube. She had a complicated from her IVs and got a blood clot in her arm. Now she's on blood thinners and can't have her knee surgery for two more months. And on top of it all, they think it might not be pneumonia. It might be tuberculosis, no shit. She's in quarantine, you have to wear a mask and gown to see her.
Her parents are overseas, and she's really lonely. I took a card to athletics association and got the athletes to sign it... I'm going to bring her magazines and the card tomorrow.
Next Friday I debut the 10k.
And when I finish this last physics question, I AM DONE WITH WORK FOR THIS WEEK AND A
Lots of running this week. It started off with a bang - 9 miles total on Monday, 8 on Tuesday (the workout was 6 by 3 minute pick-ups with 2 min recovery). Instead of taking either Wednesday or Friday off, I'm running light both days and taking next Monday off. By the end of the week, I should have over 50 miles in the books.
Saturday morning is a lactate threshold workout - 4 by 1600 with 1:00 walking recovery at 6:55. Exciting stuff! I love LT pace....
Yesterday I saw my teammate K in the hospital. She has had a really terrible string of luck lately. She tore her MCL at conferences in the long jump. Over spring break, she got really sick - really high fever that wouldn't go down. She went to the hospital and they diagnosed her with pneumonia and drained her lungs with a tube. She had a complicated from her IVs and got a blood clot in her arm. Now she's on blood thinners and can't have her knee surgery for two more months. And on top of it all, they think it might not be pneumonia. It might be tuberculosis, no shit. She's in quarantine, you have to wear a mask and gown to see her.
Her parents are overseas, and she's really lonely. I took a card to athletics association and got the athletes to sign it... I'm going to bring her magazines and the card tomorrow.
Next Friday I debut the 10k.
And when I finish this last physics question, I AM DONE WITH WORK FOR THIS WEEK AND A
Geez, I hope your teammate gets better, that really IS an awful string of luck :-/ I've visited relatives in quarantine. It always makes me feel like I'm on an episode of House or something. What a good captain you are!
I need to get to bed early too. Jeez, I am going to be officially freaking out in about 24 hours.
Isn't that awful for poor K? When I was sick, three of the distance girls brought me magazines to read... and I was just in the health center puking. It's the least I can do...
I think freaking out is a good thing. Most races don't freak me out anymore. When I get that extra burst of adrenaline... look out. Those are my good races. :) (Looks like I might be running *faster* than you at some point Saturday morning :P I didn't realize LT pace was so... quick. When did I get fast?!)
Physics + Mark = HEAD A'SPLOSION!
That really blows. How the hell did they confuse TB with pneumonia? ugh.
Local 5ks and even that 5 mile turkey trot didn't phase me. But there's something about a race that you spend months and months training for and it can all be for naught because of the slightest fluke thing that gets to me. I mean, don't get me wrong, all in all I'm feeling GREAT. My legs feel awesome really, and I'm pretty confident. So now it's just a matter of getting through the next 31 or so hours. I have a feeling I'll have no shortage of adrenaline come Saturday.
Since when did your Saturday run drop to 6:55? I thought it was like 7:02? SPEED DEMON! Enjoy your day of being faster than me, I don't plan on letting it happen much more :-P
I know you're all about the Spartans, but did you see the Michigan game before?! Wow. Ps...I wound up taking Mich St to the Elite 8, and I showed the Big Ten a little more love than I originally was going to. Which might end up being a good thing (although the Illini aren't exactly acquitting themselves too well right now).
Re: Physics + Mark = HEAD A'SPLOSION!
I have no idea. I think the odds of her having TB are very low, but they have to take every precaution. :/
I get excited for the important races. Early season, nothing phases me. I love BIG races, like Paul Short - I get really fired up for those. And I get fired up for championships. And I get fired up when it looks like I'm in a good heat for a track race and might really run fast :) I have to talk myself into being nervous, give myself butterflies.
You seem pumped, you've put in the work, I can't WAIT to see what you do in, what, 30 hours? :P
I was estimating what my lactate threshold pace would be, but the pace dropped when I got the instructions for the workout emailed to me! Apparently I'm FAST! And I'm going to take my momentum from being momentarily faster than you, and it's going to take my training to levels we never thought were possible! You'll be eating my dust for months! /smack talk
I didn't catch it... didn't get back to my room until it was all over. But I had a feeling MI would win one! I didn't think it'd be enough for the Wolverines to just make it into the tournament. To show that they've really, really turned the program around, to show that their selection wasn't a fluke, they had to win one. The last few years, they've really turned everything around. I'm from Ann Arbor... Go Blue!
I took Illinois this round but picked them to lose to Gonzaga... I didn't have a lot of faith in them, but I like to pick Big Ten when I think it's possible... except that I can never in good faith pick Ohio State. Illinois and Minnesota's losses don't affect my bracket much- I didn't pick them to win in the next round. I'm delusional but rooted in reality :)
15/16 today SUCKA!
I only vaguely remember middle/high school track. I remember kicking ass in the 1500 in middle school and then getting my ass handed to me because I was a freshman who slacked off and only cared about going to the weight room after practice. I didn't get nervous for meets because I knew I didn't have a prayer of doing anything that mattered. I wish I could go back and shake teenage mark into training seriously. Wow, detour...anyway, yeah as it gets closer I'll be more excited than nervous. And quite possibly a big, blubbering baby at points. Oh running, what you do to me!
You ARE fast! I can forsee us going for an "easy" run together on one of your routes and it turning into an escalating tempo run that leaves us both bent over and sucking wind after...well, I'll have recovered by the time you finish ;) No mercy now!
Your arguments yesterday, or whenever that was, made me give the Big Ten a little more love. I had Michigan...but that was one of the harder picks I made. But outside of the Spartans I don't like the Big Ten's chances much after this round, though I could see Purdue getting past Washington. Tell me you sucked it up and picked Ohio State at least a few rounds the year they went to the championship game.
You're from Ann Arbor? My friend goes to school in Ypsilanti! /random
13/16
I was slow in early middle school, but by the end of seventh grade track, I had put in enough time and had my competitive spirit coaxed out of me (I was in this stupid two mile with these stupid girls from Woodhaven, and they boxed me in! I was like, "To hell with you guys!" And then I was like, "Shit, what have I done?! What if they pass me back?! I better keep running fast!" And fear has been my biggest motivator ever since). Which goes to say that by the end of eighth grade, after coming in second in my league in the 800 and being on a school record 4x800, nothing scared me anymore. Just the big ones.
Oh, snap!
See, the Michigan pick was one of the easiest ones I made. I had it easy... read the newspaper when I was home, and I really got a sense that if those kids made it, they'd have to prove to the whole country that they really deserved their spot. And I thought, this IS a team that deserves this spot, they've beaten ranked teams, they've survived the pound-each-other-into-the-ground Big Ten play, and against Clemson, I thought they could win. I was really comfortable with that.
I genuinely thought Illinois was going to win, but my pick of Minnesota was me tossing Minnesota a bone. Before I saw UConn's massacre of Chattanooga, I thought Purdue had a chance.
I rooted against Ohio State the entire time, but I didn't keep brackets in 2007.
I'm from a little farm town right outside of Ann Arbor (like literally ten minutes away).
Your friend goes to Eastern Michigan, I take it? I have tons of friends there.