I biked 1 time this week, 16.1 miles
Sunday, 4/20/2014: 16.1 miles bike, 12.2 average, 46F, 42% RH, 9 mph ESE wind, wind chill 42F, sunny.
Garmin Connect Activity for 16.1 mile bike on both sides of the Genesee River
My honey, Christine, was snoring so I was awake at 6:30AM. The sun rose and I lazed around. I knew I didn't want to run but soon I had the bright idea of going for a bike ride. I geared up, pumped up the air in the tires of my Trek FX7.2 and off I went. It felt weird on the bike at first but I took it nice and easy on my usual around the bridges bike route. I stopped at Wegmans for some coffee creamer and 4 donuts. I stuffed it into my backpack and rode home.
I woke up my honey and we lazed around all afternoon. We did make it out for a nice Easter dinner at the East Ridge Diner. Did we go to bed early ... not!
Monday, 4/21/2014: Boston Marathon for some, rest day for me.
I had half a mind on work while I kept tabs on Rochester runners that I knew that were running in the Boston. 37,000 runners ran the 2014 Boston Marathon ... one of these days I hope to.
I loaded the BAA app onto my iPhone. I also had the BAA website feed and Universalsports.com finish line feed open. I saw Rita Reptoo from Kenya win for the elite women in a course record of 2:18:57. Then I saw Meb Keflezighi of the US win for the elite men in 2:08:37 (1st American male winner since 1983). Lots of news, links here, here, here, here and here, 42 signs here, stats here.
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| Meb!!! |
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| JMac around mile 18 |
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| Wilt around the half way point |
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| Wendy Abbott |
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| Heather Danielson and Chris Patterson |
I tracked ten Rochester runners: Jason McElwain (J-Mac) in 2:57:05, Chris Patterson in 3:02:36, Tim Dwyer in 3:03:21, Dan Giblin in 3:12:46, Heather Danielson in 3:28:16, Wendy Abbott in 3:34:48, David Coyne in 3:52:32, Kristen Nagel in 4:07:16, Wilton Alston in 4:15:07 and Bill Beyerbach in 4:20:39.
My body didn't feel like running after work so I didn't. I have lots of races coming up. I don't need to run every day.
Tuesday, 4/22/2014: 8 miles, 1:09:53, 8:44 pace, 54F, 77% RH, 9 mph W wind, overcast.
Garmin Connect Activity for Cobbs Hill run on Tuesday night
I need to run and I need to run hill so I headed down to my old haunt, Cobbs Hill, to run. I parked up on Cobbs Hill rather than on Highland Ave, geared up and headed out. I "ran" into the Fleet Feet Sehgahunda Training crew and said "Hi" to Boots and Sean as I passed as some of their hill route. I did 4 switchbacks, 4 full Vs and then ran a "cooldown" run. My elevation change was 1220 feet and my splits were: 8:30, 9:19, 9;31, 9:21, 9:00, 7:58, 8:12 and 8:01. Not bad! Hoping I am becoming Sehgahunda Strong!
Wednesday, 4/23/2014: Rest day.
My Garmin Forerunner 310XT hasn't been uploading automatically for months. Tonight I finally figured out how to fix it. I found in the Garmin forums lots of other people with the same problem ... mostly bitching and moaning but one link had my solution, a "non-prompted non-vol clear", link here. Basically, it wiped my 310XT back to right when I unboxed it with no prompts to save my data. I had to set it up again. Then it started to upload as soon as I got it near my laptop ... nice!
Thursday, 4/24/2014: 6.2 miles, 46:34, 7:26 pace, 54F, 24% RH, 10 mph NNW wind, overcast.
Garmin Connect for Fast 10K around the streets of Irondquoit
My darling wife, Christine, was watching "Magnum, P.I." off the DVR. I watched 3 episodes (well, two did have a young Sharon Stone in them) before I broke free. It was almost 7:30PM before I headed out. I was a bit pissed so I struck up a hard pace and kept it up on my entire 10K route. My splits were: 7:33, 7:34, 7:30, 7:30, 7:20, 7:19 and 7:02 over the last 0.25 mile. I felt better when I got done.
Friday, 4/25/2014: Another rest day.
I felt a twinge in my groin area during the day from last night's run so I stayed in. Plus there was a traffic fatality on Route 104W by Buckman Rd right on my usual route home so traffic was all tied up on the west side of Rochester all afternoon and during the evening rush hour so I was late coming home.
Saturday, 4/26/2014: Moving a kid day.
What a day. My daughter, Karen, was going to move from one apartment in Newark to another. Sounds easy ... not so much.
Well ... Uhaul in Newark double booked my truck so my 17' truck was gone when my youngest son, David, and I got there at 10AM. So ... we had to drive all the way back to Victor (23 miles) to get a 20' truck. Both sites apologied but I will complain to Uhaul Corporate for breaking my reservation. So ... we didn't get back to Newark to start the move until noon. There we met up with my oldest son, Michael, and my ex. We got loaded by 1:30PM at Karen's old apartment. Then we had to make 3 stops for more stuff: Walmart for a futon, the ex's apartment for an entertainment center and the ex's storage unit for a coffee table before we drove to Karen's new apartment. There I had to park my Uhaul still slightly on a busy side street because the driveway was short and narrow. Her apartment had a steep and narrow stair plus a low ceiling at the top of the stair and entrance way. Everything got moved in .... except the couch. My sons tried to get it in ... but couldn't. There was just no way to angle it in. So we had to take it back to my ex's storage unit. The move was done by 3:50PM, then it was off to drop the truck off in Victor. David dropped me off back in Rochester just after 5PM.
But ... I wanted to go to a RFP dinner party at Bazil's at 5PM ... Christine didn't really want to go but went along anyway. We were late ... words were said ... I should have gone by myself. We ate at MacGregor's Grill instead. We stopped at Wegmans to get a cake before we headed out to Steve and Kim Levitsky's for dessert. We had a bit of social time before we headed home. We were in bed by shortly after 9PM ... exhausted.
Meanwhile ... out in Facebook, I saw that Tina and Joe conquered the Blue Ridge Marathon in Roanoke VA which is billed as the "America's Toughest Road Marathon" with 7430 feet of total elevation change, results here.
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| Tina Pellegrin and Joe Ciecierega with finisher's medals in front of the Roanoke Star |
Yet ... again out in Facebook, the Flower City Du and Tri was held. Just one picture ...
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| Kayaks out on the Genesee River during the Flower City Tri |
