August 19/14 - Last round of hill training – 9x300m hills
During the warm up km run to
the hill (steepest one yet – we apparently saved the best (or worst) for last)
Twin 2’s shins were bothering her again.
As Twin 1 made her way up the first hill run Twin 2 tied her shoes a
little tighter and walked the hill to see if she could walk out the splints. It worked.
Like normal, as Twin 2 was making her way down her first one Twin 1 was
on her way back up. We both decided to
walk down the hill as it’s so steep that while walking down you felt like you
were going to go head over heels so running just wasn’t an option.
Towards the last few hill
repeats Twin 2 figured that Twin 1 had 2 hills on her (because Twin 2 didn’t
count the one she walked). When Twin 2
mentioned it to Twin 1 the convo went like this:
Twin 1: “Oh we’re not counting
the walks?”
Twin 2: “Well I’m not because
you ran up the first one and I walked”
Twin 1: “Oh, well I walked up
2”
Twin 2: “What? When?” (and
here Twin 2 was feeling bad about the first walk up)
Twin 1: “I walked when I
couldn’t see you but when you started coming down over the crest of the hill I
started running”
HA! Twin 2 didn’t expect that at all. Anyway we did our 9 hill climbs and went
home.
August 21/14 – 6k
A short run around Glengarry
on the road. Nothing fun to report.
August 24/14 – 19k
We wish we could say that we
could remember this run but we mentally blocked it out – both of us. Completely forget running it.
We do remember trying to get
out at 6 a.m. (it’s still dark out) but not making it out until about 6:20/6:30
a.m. Weather was overcast. We started from Lakeside (Twin 1’s house) to Hubley
and back on the road all the way (no trail).
Road running is certainly different than the flat gravel trail under
foot and on the body. There are way more
hills/turns/angles to run on. During
most of our runs, until now, we have been doing a mix of trail/road runs but we
thought as the race is only 3 weeks away that we should do all runs now on the
road to become more accustomed to the inclines, etc. We again ran 10 and walked 1 the whole
time. That 1 minute certainly gives you
a little break to catch your breath and get revved up for the next 10 min. We kept pumping the Honey Stingers into us
about every 5k and water every 3k (there are water stations every 3k on the
race route so thought we would try this out to see how it works).
Twin 2 may have mentally
blocked this run out because for some reason after 18.88 km her Garmin stopped
tracking her running. She didn’t realize
it until during the last .15 metres her Garmin kept telling her she was at
18.88 km and for some reason just couldn’t get that 19 km in on the
Garmin. Now she knows that she did run
19 km because Twin 1’s Garmin tracked it and so did mapmyrun.com but the Garmin
doesn’t lie….but in her head she never reached that 19 km mark.
Aug 26/14 – 8k
This was our first “interval”
training. We looked at the schedule and
it said 6 x 3 min int for 8km. HUH? The
math doesn’t add up cause if we only run 6 times for 3 min that would only be
running for 54 min and we can’t get 8k in 54 minutes like I’m sure some people
can. So we forgot about warm up and cool
down which would have been equal to 8k with a few minutes between the intervals
but we are not so good at math and didn’t figure this out until after we were
half way through. We set our watches to
Run 3, Walk 1. We did this for 4k and we
were getting tired as we were running faster than the norm for 3 min. At the ½ way mark and during the 4k home we
switched it up and Ran 1 minute and walked 3.
Those 1 minutes were all out sprints.
It was actually a very fun run and more enjoyable than running a steady
pace for a full 8k. (Which we are scheduled to do on Thursday).
Tonight calls for strength
training and HAIRCUT!! WE LOVE HAIRCUT DAY!!
