Monday: 0
Tuesday: 11 Miles
Watch Hill loop with Keith.
Wednesday: 10 Miles
Easy laps around Ninigret bike track, criterion and grass fields with Dad and Brady.
Thursday: 11 Miles
Coach sent out some workouts to do over break, and Thursday ended being the day I wanted to do it. I couldn't get over to a track, so I changed mile repeats to 1Ks with the goal of doing 6x1K in 3:08-3:10. Used the Avondale road loop which is great for workouts since its pancake flat and is a nice loop (no major turns) closed to traffic. The loop is just under 1K, so each rep was just over a loop then I did half loop rest, which was either slightly over or under 500m since the two halves aren't equal. Went 3:02/3:02/3:08, absolutely hammering at the start of each one. First two felt fairly controlled, then third one suddenly I was dying and unable to hit the pace. Stopped to catch my breath, changed to 3x500m on .2 mile jog (1:27/1:24/1:30), dying again on the third one then some road 200s in 31, 34, 32, 33 on .1 mile jog. Decent road workout, horrible job on the pacing but whatever. Difficulty: 3/5 (hard to evaluate since I quit big time)
Friday: 11 Miles
Tillinghast trails, some light snow and wet but fun.
Saturday: 10 Miles
Black Point and Niantic Boardwalk road loop with Aiden and Matt Adams, who was in the area (why we ran there). Nice run, Aiden and Matt were both low-key dying, kinda weird. Pouring rain but nice.
Sunday: 14 Miles Run, 17 Bike
Had little motivation to run so decided last minute after waking up to go for an FKT. Figured either Cockaponset Trail or Richard Goodwin and since the trails were pretty wet from the rain, the less technical, Richard Goodwin was the easy decision.
Dropped my bike off at the end of the trail, Chapal Preserve in East Haddam, then headed over to East Lyme for the start (Mostowy rd). 1 mile OAB warm-up, stretched and used bathroom before starting. Got off pretty well with the pace actually sub-5 for the first quarter mile since it was a steep downhill on very wide trail. This was followed by a 200 foot climb which really slowed the pace down. Really smooth on mile 8, some rollers but almost all either very smooth non-technical singletrack and 3 miles of dirt roads, some washed out and in terrible condition while others were very smooth. All miles sub-6:40 up to this point, felt very comfortable on the singletrack but was hurting a little on the dirt roads. 9 and 10 were much harder with a lot of twists, more rocks and larger hills. Some tiring stuff in there with miles over 8 minutes but nice downhills at the end where I got the pace down. Realized it would be very close to be sub-1:30 or not and I picked it up a little. Accidentally missed a very short section of the trail with .3 to go, but it has minimal effect on the time and distance. Finished in 1:29:22, previous FKT 1:46 (the guy set the full OAB FKT during the run so twice the distance is of course a very different effort). Pretty happy with it and happy with the intensity I maintained. I probably felt a little too comfortable on some of my FKTs but got fairly close to race effort on this one. Definitely a few sections where I was hurting.
The bike ride back was awful. Drank my water in the first few miles then was thirsty for the rest. Thought a turn 3 miles in was right when I was supposed to go straight and didn't check again until 8 miles in. Ride was supposed to 10 miles, but added so much extra distance with the wrong turn and had to finish up with a long stretch on route 1 where I bonked big time. Felt miserable/wanted to call for a ride but toughed it out and finished it. Really hilly, 1300 feet of gain.
Weekly Total: 67 Miles
YTD Total: 3,167 Miles
Weekly Highlight: Getting my 8th (?) FKT, definitely want to pick up a few more before heading back to school. I have my eye on Cockaponset (Ben Nephew just took it from me and I wasn't happy with my effort anyway) and Quinnipiac as well as some in the Hudson Highlands region. I don't feel totally ready for the high elevation gain and technical profile so I probably won't do that many. Also doing the border patrol challenge, which has a lot of routes near me including 2 that are FKTs Mt. Tom and Walkabout trail.
Weekly Lowlight: Biking
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