Now, back to our regularly scheduled training plan...
Monday - 3 Miles. Higby Mt. out and back. With sore legs and a stressful work day, I stopped off to snag a few miles and some vert at Higby. Why not? I did a 1.5 out, 1.5 back, and fared better than I expected, and grabbed 800' of elevation gain in 80 degree weather. Good times!
Tuesday - Friday - 0 Miles. Work and my downstairs bathroom project took over, and to be perfectly honest, that race kicked my ass. I did the 3 on Monday and had to schlep heavy beadboard up two flights of stairs on Tuesday, and I was feeling it...so a few days off was OK.
Saturday - 16 Miles - Mystic Trail/Road mixer. I knew I wanted a long run, and I knew it was gonna be Mystic, where I could park, easily access trails, and get mileage with the ability to return to my truck for a second water bottle. I started on DPNC trails, hit roads through Mystic toward Noank, jumped onto the Moore Woodlands, to Pequot Woods, roads through Old Mystic to more DPNC trails, and back to the truck. Ran out of Tailwind at mile 12-ish, my mistake, Got to the truck at 14+ miles, switched bottles and ran a short bit to hit 16. Muggy, but fun and a needed long run.
Sunday - 6 Miles - Foot Pursuit 5k, warmup and cooldown. Legs felt heavy, but I've done this race the last 7 years and it's one of my favorites, so why not get my ass in gear and get down there? Drove down to 'Gansett and the first thing I noticed was a stiff breeze blowing. The Sun was out though, and it was really nice, a chilly April morning for a race. Geared up and ran into race photog and Turtle frenemy George Ross, as well as a bunch of my WTAC cohorts, and other friends there to race. Picked up my race packet, noting that another spiffy tech shirt was now mine!
Was looking for my people for a warmup, but ended up on a solo cruise through the trails across the street. At race time, I had low expectations, but as the race started, I found that I really wanted to get around all the people I was having to weave through. My mile splits: 7:28/7:07/6:58, not spectacular but not terrible, and it was a great time! I got out-kicked by a guy about my age at the finish named Cliff, who introduces himself and mentions that he reads my blog? Holy crap, I didn't think people actually read any of this nonsense! Ha! Good to meet you, Cliff!
Cooldown run with WTAC'ers Jeff and Aaron. We ended up being the three men's team winners for the club, and scored some "TriMom Bucks" and a sizeable gift card that we'll have to figure out how to split....all in all, a good race and I'm glad I went!
Low mileage week, but I needed some down time (even though the down time was filled with other things). Now to get back at it!
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