I biked once this week, 6.2 miles.
Sunday, 4/19/2015: 6.2 miles on the bike, around 45F with a 10 mph or so wind.
I got up at 7 AM. I can't seem to sleep in ... OK, Christine's snoring woke me up. I'm a light sleeper ... what can I say. I puttered around until I got the idea to go for a bicycle ride. So I dressed warmly: CW-X tights, Zoots padded shorts, long sleeve tech, 1/4 zip Brooks pullover, Brooks beanie and bicycle gloves. I gathered up all the stuff that I needed to put on my Trek FX7.2 bicycle and went to it. I put on a Metro 360 USB headlight and taillight, fastened a SKS energy bag to the top stem up by the handlebar and affixed a CycleAware Reflex mirror to my helmet. I was not impressed with the mirror ... maybe I just didn't adjust it right.
I kissed my sleeping wife, Christine, told her where I was going and headed out. I had thought about going out on a 15 mile Bridges ride (up to the O'Rorke bridge, down to the 104 bridge and home) but ... wimped out and just rode my usual 10K running route. Riding into the wind was just too cold. I needed another layer on top plus my heavy running gloves. Lesson learned. Dressed WAY warmer on your upper body and hands in order to ride your bicycle in April.
I soon found Facebook posts about other adventures: runners in Boston running the Boston Marathon on Monday, runners running the Sehgahunda Preview Run #3 and runners running the Seneca 7 77.7 mile relay run. A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article about runner prepping for the Boston Marathon is here. The Seneca 7 website is here, a ROC Splatter Runners participant's story in the Penfield Post is here, Seneca 7 news/pics/video links here, here, here and the results are here.
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| (l-r) Bambi Jasmin, Katherine Switzer (ran Boston Marathon '67 as K Switzer 5 years before women were allowed to run) and Christine Antonini - from Facebook |
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| Jeanne Herrick - from Facebook |
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| The GVH Fustercluck tesm: 1st overall in 2015 besting their 2014 time by 7 minutes - from Facebook |
My youngest son, David, dealt with another kidney stone overnight. My wife, Christine, went out to sit with him at the Newark-Wayne Community Hospital for a while. He left in the morning after he felt better without waiting for a urologist to look at him.
A bunch of runners that I knew ran the Boston Marathon. I followed a lot of them via text alerts during the day. Here they are: Tim Dwyer - 3:00:08 (BQ), Jason McElwain - 3:03:38 (BQ), Dan Giblin 3:19:36, Christopher Patterson and Heather Danielson (BQ) - 3:24:43, John Brind'Amour - 3:41:04, Wendy Abbott - 3:44:10 (BQ), Bill Beyerbach - 3:48:28 (BQ), Bambi Jasmin - 3:54:52, David Coyne - 3:52:52 (BQ), Bill Crowe - 3:57:45 (BQ), Jeanne Herrick - 4:25:22 (BQ?), Mary Crowe - 4:31:07. Kudos and congratulations to all of them. I hope to have my own Boston Marathon story to tell one day.
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| Heather and Chris posing at Cobbs Hill last week - from a Rochester D&C article |
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| Heasther and Chris post Boston Marathon - from Facebook |
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| Jeanne Herrick post Boston Marathon - from Facebook |
Garmin Connect Activity for A steady 15K
After 4 trail races in a row it's time to switch gears to run road. So I switched to my New Balance 860 road shoes and ran road. I thought about going out for 10 mile but settled for a nice and steady 15K. My splits were: 7:58, 7:51, 7:51, 8:03, 7:53, 7:56, 8:07, 7:56, 8:02 and 7:38 over the last 0.3 mile. Nothing special.
Sad news, Norm Frank, died at age 83, obituary here, news links here, here and here. He was a Rochester runner who ran 965 marathons. I never met him but I did know of him ... much respect.
Wednesday, 4/22/2015: Rest day.
I had a dentist appointment at 4:15 PM. I had two cavities. One of them was underneath a filling so that had to drilled out first and the other was just a new one. Dr Randy Raetz DDS numbed me up, drilled away and filled the holes back up. He is good ... and he's a running dentist! Yes, he sponsors the Fleet Feet Dirt Cheap Series.
Thursday, 4/23/2015: 11 miles, 1:28:25, 8:02 pace, 37F, 52% RH, 11 mph WNW wind, wind chill 30F, mostly cloudy
Garmin Connect Activity for An OK 11 miles
I dilly-dallied a bit after work but I needed another long run so I got up off the couch, got dressed and got off. I tried to ignore that fact that I had to dress for a winter run. It is APRIL! But ... whatever. I struck up a nice and easy pace around 8:00/mile on my usual 10K route and held it. My thighs were tight but I just ignored them and just kept running. I stretched the run to 15K by adding a loop and adding Chapel Hill Drive. I was happy that I only stopped for traffic. My splits were: 7:40, 8:00, 7:51, 7:57, 8:22, 7:59, 8:11, 8:08, 8:03, 8:09 and 8:06. I hope to run this pace for the Flower City Half Marathon on Sunday. I had a 10 ounce water bottle and downed that when I got done. I rolled out my thighs when I got done. Man, did that hurt!!
Friday, 4/24/2015: Rest day.
I had thought about running ... but after last night I quickly thought better of it. I got enough of a workout at work. The Pacer app on my iPhone had 13560 steps during my workday.
Saturday, 4/25/2015: The rest day before a race the next morning
I saw pictures on Facebook of the Flower City Challenge Du and Tri. I thought about doing the Du this year but chickened out ... maybe next year!
My darling wife, Christine, had a massage at MassageEnvy at 4PM. Then we met up at Famous Dave's for a pre race dinner. I had steak and she had catfish. The steak was sub par ... next time I will stick to ribs or beef brisket.
I also saw pictures on Facebook of Christopher and Heather Patterson's wedding. Congratulation and best wishes to the happy couple!
I laid out my running clothes in a laundry basket, filled my gym bag with extra clothes (just in case) and filled a small drawstring bag with dry clothes for Christine to carry.
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| Flower City Half Marathon pre-race swag |
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