Friday Funny 2419: A "Gym" Membership
Some Warm Workouts This Week!
>> Thursday, February 27, 2025
Let's start with last Friday... it was going to be the last really cold morning for a while. I went out for 6+ miles while it was 5 degrees because I was annoyed that my PREVIOUS SIX runs were all on the treadmill. (That includes the previous 2 that were at different hotels as we were on the road.) So I finished up my run on Friday looking like this:
Frosty frosty!
There was a LITTLE slippage as the west side of the river was a little slick - there was so much melting over the weekend that the trails were wet and starting to re-freeze a little even though it was well above freezing. But my run still went well. Overall, I did 11.66 miles in 1:19:14 (6:48 overall pace) with the middle 6 miles harder in 36:38 (6:06.33/mile pace). That was the first outdoor long run with 5 or 6 "hard miles" averaging below 6:10 for the first time since early October's TC 10 Mile!!
Hard miles west of the river (out and back from split 5 to split 17).
[Splits are half-miles.]
Then the next day, I had a normal swim and upper body workout. But it was nearly 50 degrees, so I grabbed my bike (that I just figured out WASN'T broken) and hit parts of the same trails for a nice 13 mile ride on my mountain bike (still too much grit for my tri bike).
Hitting a hill on Pelham, going down the Greenway a bit,
and adding a little extra on Summit Ave.
NO GLOVES AT ALL! That means it's REAL nice while biking!
Semi-Wordless Wednesday: Busted Bike... AGAIN!
>> Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Last fall, I busted my chain on the way home from work on my mountain bike. Last week, I had a busted cable and could only shift between my FRONT chain rings as my back was in the easist gear:
Parked in the snow at the library.
Close up. Notice all the sag? D'oh.
Two Treadmill Workouts: a GOOD One and a BAD One!
>> Monday, February 24, 2025
About 10 days ago, the boys and I left for a 2500 mile road trip because Henry qualified for the JUNIOR OLYMPICS IN CHARLOTTE in fencing! It was over President's Day weekend, and it worked out so they didn't have to miss any school! I'll have more on that shortly once I download a few photos (but you can find about 5 posts on Instagram recently about the trip), and I also need to be downloading photos from our Mexico trip last month as well. And I'm doing a lot of photography at my sons' school for an upcoming musical, so I've been editing about 900 photos over the last few days as well. Sheesh.
I'll have more about the trip soon. But here are the 2 treadmill workouts I did while away from home.
Friday was out biggest day on the road: from 4:15 a.m. until about 9:00 p.m. we were in the car for 13+ hours. That morning we left a hotel in northern Indiana, and they didn't have a working treadmill (one was "out of order," and one was literally stuck on 1 mph). So I didn't get my normal morning workout done. We pulled into Charlotte after a day on the road, and we ALL NEEDED TO MOVE OUR BODIES even though it was late:
Pulling into downtown!
Selfie after a quick warm-up on the treadmill.
I didn't have time to look back to older workouts, so I just prepped to run 3x1 mile intervals on the treadmill. I warmed up for a mile, walked for 0.2 miles (and snapped that photo above), and then sped up. Here's what I ran, with about 2:20-2:50 walking between (for about 0.2 miles):
10.8 and 10.9 mph for 0.4 each, then 11.0 for the final 0.2 miles:
2:46 + 2:44 = 5:31.0
11.0 and 11.1 mph for 0.4 each, then 11.2 for the final 0.2 miles:
2:43 + 2:41 = 5:24.9
11.3 mph for 0.4, 11.4 for 0.3, 11.5 for 0.15, 11.6 for final 0.15:
2:38 + 2:36 = 5:15.6
Those felt good! I was slower on the treadmill back in November, and a bit slower on the track in December.
In the pool post-run around 9:45 p.m.
Sweaty post-run.
Soaked.
Nothing surprising here.
Garmin splits.
We slept in on Saturday (our "lazy day" in Charlotte), then Henry fenced on Sunday before we drove a good chunk back home towards MN. We made it to central Illinois for that night. I got up early on Monday morning (President's Day) for a long treadmill run. There was 1 treadmill, and the TV attached to it only played TNT or ESPN 2. No joke.
Post-run with sweaty drip marks.
3:11, 3:09, 3:06, 3:05, 3:03, 3:01, 2:59, 2:57, 2:56, 2:55
= 30:25 (6:05.00 / mile pace)
Overall, the run was only 10.1 miles in 1:09:03 (6:50/mile). I just could NOT keep going - I was fried.
Sweaty butt marks post-run.
Passed out boys in the room.
A big hotel breakfast an hour later.
More on Henry's Junior Olympics in the next couple of posts or so...
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