Daily Archives: May 4, 2016

Workout on a Cold, Rainy, Windy, Raw Day

Toughness and stupidity: are they mutually exclusive?

Set out to the Cinders today dressed for February weather.  I had four layers on top, 3 on my legs, a hat and a hood. And believe it or not I was cold through the entire episode. When I started driving it was cold and cloudy. When I arrived at the cinder track it was cold, cloudy, windy and raining.   My hands were freezing.  Who brings gloves in May?

My thought pattern was the following.   I didn’t do any running yesterday.  I am racing on Saturday.  Wednesday is the only day this week that I want to do serious training.  So despite all these negatives I pushed on.  I could not accept letting this day go by without any running.  It was wet and cold and took a long time to achieve any fluidity.  I did finally get to the point where I could do some 30-second pickups,  2 per lap on the half-mile track.  I did five 30 second pickups. When doing these I count 75 strides , that equals about 100 yards. The total after all was 3 miles in 36:40.   As I plodded on,  I congratulated myself for being tough and chastised myself for being stupid at the same time.

I guess maybe these realities can be mutually exclusive!

 

PS :  An article published yesterday by Runner’s  World on Twitter added validity to Dr. Mirkin’s article in which he quoted studies that touted  the benefits of the 30-20–10 Workout.   (See my post from April 20th.)   I will definitely be coming back to that workout.

 

Stats

I-MAD –  2

AmHR – 54BPM

Weight –  151 .4 pounds

Sleep –  8 hours

Workout – 3 miles and 36:40 with five 30 second  pickups.