Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Caught the cold that was going around
So after having a scratchy throat for most of the weekend it hit me on Monday. I was in bed most of Monday and Tuesday - missing my Tuesday swim. Being sick is never fun.
By Wednesday, I was feeling mostly better. I decided to go for the run on my own before the track workout because I had plans that evening. Given that we were supposed to do a 1.5 mile warm-up, a .5 mile drill, a 2-mile fast-as-you-can run and then a 2 mile cool-down, I decided to map out a relatively flat, mile loop near my house. As you know, living in San Francisco doesn't play too well with flat running, and even this loop had some somewhat steep portions. I used Gmap-Pedometer to map this out. I had a fairly good run given that I wasn't feeling 100% and it was hilly, crossed lots of traffic, and by the third or fourth lap I was getting quite a lot of stares. My favorite was running past Mitchell's ice cream shop, where I ran roughly two miles during the time it took most people to eat an ice cream cone. I'll have to go back there for a treat sometime!
My running speed has definitely increased, and I finished my 2-mile as-fast-as-you-can run in 16:32 minutes. I think I would have gone slightly faster on the track without the hills and traffic, but that's just pure speculation. I'm pretty pleased that my running speed has been picking up. Even during my half-marathon I was pretty much stuck at 9-minute miles.
By Wednesday, I was feeling mostly better. I decided to go for the run on my own before the track workout because I had plans that evening. Given that we were supposed to do a 1.5 mile warm-up, a .5 mile drill, a 2-mile fast-as-you-can run and then a 2 mile cool-down, I decided to map out a relatively flat, mile loop near my house. As you know, living in San Francisco doesn't play too well with flat running, and even this loop had some somewhat steep portions. I used Gmap-Pedometer to map this out. I had a fairly good run given that I wasn't feeling 100% and it was hilly, crossed lots of traffic, and by the third or fourth lap I was getting quite a lot of stares. My favorite was running past Mitchell's ice cream shop, where I ran roughly two miles during the time it took most people to eat an ice cream cone. I'll have to go back there for a treat sometime!
My running speed has definitely increased, and I finished my 2-mile as-fast-as-you-can run in 16:32 minutes. I think I would have gone slightly faster on the track without the hills and traffic, but that's just pure speculation. I'm pretty pleased that my running speed has been picking up. Even during my half-marathon I was pretty much stuck at 9-minute miles.
// posted by Zack @ 6:00 PM 
