I ran 5 times this week, 33.55 miles.
Sunday, 4/2/2017: 6.25 miles, 47:52, 7:39 pace, 34F, 86% RH, 5 mph SW wind, wind chill 29F, mostly sunny.
I slept in a bit but still got out there a bit after 8 AM. I thought I was going on a nice and easy run but ... I decided to put the hammer down (about 90%) for a fast out and back on the LOSP trail and a bit of Island Cottage. Boom ... I picked it them and laid them down! My splits were: 7:35, 7:49, 7:35, 7:39, 7:39, 7:49 and 7:02 on the last 0.25 mile.
Then it was a bit of a quick turnaround so I could head out to Palmyra to be a computer technician for my daughter, Karen. My services were: replace her battery (the old one had moderate health), replace her power supply (nicked cord), put on a hard drive cover and replace her 250 GB (with 220 GB of data) hard disk drive (HDD) with a roomy 1 TB HDD. The first three were trivial ... the last took 9 hours. I had looked at the instructions on www.howtogeek.com and printed them out, link here. They use Macrium Reflect Free (MRF), link here, to clone the drive from the smaller HDD (in the laptop) to the larger HDD (hooked up via USB 2.0). It went well until Karen moved the hard drive suddenly when she got up. It didn't hit the carpeted floor but the clone failed at 70% after 3 hours. No worries ... I got it going again and the clone succeeded after 4 hours. But ... there was two partitions on the 1 TB HDD; one of 250 GB and one unused one of 653 GB. The instructions said that I should be able to adjust it after I was done. Well ... I finally found the User's Guide for the version of MRF that I downloaded. It told me that I should have adjusted the destination drive size before I started ... not afterward. What to do? I knew I had a copy of Partition Magic that could do the job ... at home somewhere where it couldn't do me any good right now. But ... Google is my friend so I found a copy of EaseUs Partition Master, link here. I had a hiccup of thinking the program was resizing the 1 TB HDD partitions for about 20 minutes ... until I figured out that you had to click APPLY NOW to get it to do anything. Then it was just a matter of putting the 1 TB HDD in the laptop and I was done.
Karen and I watched 3 DVDs while I was working: "Hidalgo", "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", "The Lord of the Ring: The Two Towers". I also walked up to Mark's Pizza to get a medium pizza (half extra mozzarella and half pepperoni) for us to chow down on when I waited for the hard drive to clone on the second attempt. I was not crazy about how Mark's cooked the pizza ... too greasy and soggy.)
Monday, 4/3/2017: A rest and "get your butt back to work" day.
Looking back at last week: I got a lot of running done, 52.55 miles. Did I get a lot done around the townhouse? Well ... I got a bit done. I gotta get more done before the good weather comes ... trust me.
Tuesday, 4/4/4027: 7.05 miles, 55:04, 7:48 pace, 63F, 72% RH, 12 mph SW wind, partly cloudy with a light mist from time to time
I had an inkling that I needed to take my Tuesday run during lunch not after work. It was certainly nice out when I went out to get my gear. There was a real light mist by the time I started and it had gotten windier. I struck up a nice and easy pace into the wind and headed out. The clouds parted for a bit midway through and were clouding up again by the time I got done. I don't do nice and easy too well so my splits were: 8:13, 7:51, 7:49, 7:54, 7:41, 7:46 and 7:30. I was a little sweaty when I got done. It will be a change when the weather stays warmer.
By the way, I was right. I had to do stuff when I got home. I would have been extremely rushed if I had gone straight to Greece Arcadia High School to run my usual 7.5 miles. It seems that if I want stuff done I have to do it myself ... that way I know it will get done. I might complain, I might mutter under my breath, it might not be done "correctly" but it will get done.
Wednesday, 4/5/2017: 7.05 miles, 53:35, 7:36 pace, 43F, 75% RH, 8 mph NNW wind, wind chill 38F, overcast.
The forecast for Thursday is rain all day so I got out today. I had expected it to warm up to the mid 50s so I took out my CW-X tights, yellow Brooks 1/4 zip pullover (which still needs to be washed) and mittens from my gear bag. Well ... it didn't warm up. It was 20F colder than yesterday! So ... I put on shorts, 2 long sleeve tech shirts, a hat and my heavy running gloves and got out there anyway. I did push it to keep warm. So ... my splits were a bit quick: 7:53, 7:37, 7:39, 7:35, 7:35, 7:36 and 7:19.
Thursday, 4/6/2017: Rest day ... rain day.
My oldest son, Michael, moved in a new 1 bedroom apartment in Macedon run by Lakeview Health Services, a news link here. He didn't need my help and even moved his digital piano. He did say it was quite heavy. I personally can vouch for that since I have moved it once or twice myself.
Friday, 4/7/2017: Rest day ... nothing unusual.
Saturday, 4/8/2017: 2 runs of 1.2 and 12 miles, 30F, 80% RH, 7 mph WNW wind, wind chill 23F, sunny.
Today was the Flower City Half preview run #2 put on by Yellow Jacket Racing. I set my alarm for 5:20 AM and was out the door by 6:25 AM. My cell seemed to know where I was going since it asked whether I wanted the travel time to the Blue Cross Arena when I woke it up to check the temperature so I knew what to wear. It told me a travel time of 22 minutes. I must have made all the lights because I only took 16 minutes. I had enough time to get out a really nice and easy warmup run of 1.2 miles at 8:30 pace, link here. Then I headed into the Blue Cross Arena and posed for Ellen's pre-run picture. We were out the doors by 7:05 AM.
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| I'm the tall guy in yellow about 3 rows up towards the right middle. |
Kevin Clinefelter was our 8:00 pace leader again. He didn't dawdle starting up. I had to start up my eCrump and my Garmin Forerunner 220 first! So I had to pass the 9:00 and 8:30 pace group to catch up to the group of 10 runners clustered behind him. It was a beautiful morning: sunny with the sun just rising in the east and pretty calm. This preview run was scheduled for 12 miles. The first 3 was just around towards the Mt Hope Cemetery, the next 5 was the back half of the Flower City Half course. We went right by the Blue Cross Arena after 8. We stopped for a second to see if anyone wanted to drop out. No one did so Kevin led us out on the Flower City 5K course (which I had never ran before). For some reason I couldn't really keep up today so I lagged behind a good portion of the run. I almost lost the group in the cemetery (I was about 100 yards behind at that point) so I had to put on a bit of speed to catch up. I picked up a glove that a guy dropped in the cemetery. He figured that he had dropped something about a 1/4 mile later. There was a water stop just before we got out of the cemetery where I had a Hammer Gel packet. I picked up a pair of what seemed a pair of ladies gloves just outside the cemetery. I gave this pair of gloves back to a woman when we stopped. I was surprised to see that my lagging pace was really 7:53! It certainly didn't feel it. My splits were: 7:30, 7:54, 8:04, 7:46, 743, 7:39, 50, 46, 8:31, 8:00, 8:08 and 7:45.
I stopped by Herrema's on the way back to get a couple of Giant Cinnamon Buns (just like I did last week) and an Easter lily. Christine and I split one of the buns ... mmm!
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| These Giant Cinnamon Buns from Herrema's are decadently delicious! I can only eat half of one after a run ... well, maybe a whole one. |
I started the laundry once back home. My tech stuff desperately needed washing. We watched "Rogue One" off of Spectrum On Demand. I just couldn't wait for it to get to Redbox or Netflix. It was $5.99.but still cheaper than going to the movies. I took a couple of laundry breaks while we watched the movie. The movie was quite good. It provided the back story of how the rebels got the Death Star plans that started off the whole Star Wars saga with the first Star Wars movie: "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" back in 1977. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and General Tarkin (Peter Cushing) were digitally inserted into Rogue One, link here.
