Busy weekend

Friday was an off day, and I spent it hanging out in the Brewers' Art with Ryan, Bill, and Tony.  Hadn't been there in awhile and it was a lot of fun.  Very chill, shootin' the shit and drinking beer down in the basement.  Great place, lots of memories, and wish I went there more often.

Actually, Friday morning I looked at the watch data - and it wasn't as bad as I initially thought.  I was running much faster than I thought, but that first awful run I did start too fast.  I was below an 8 minute mile!  So that was probably why I needed to stop.  But even when I slowed up - I was still running something like a 12 minute mile (5 mph).

The Thursday night run was a lot more even.  I thought I was pathetically slow, but I was basically right around 10 minute miles for the first minute or so. I slowed up after that, but I was still at 12 minute miles for most of the next two runs, but by the second half of the 3 minute run I was getting gassed and dropped to 13, and the last 5 minute run I dropped to 15 minute miles. But I did have a decent kick in the last minute of that fiver, and pulled it back up to around 10.5 minute mile.

So, yeah - Beth's watch is pretty cool, huh? I wonder how it would do in water....

But of course, with Beth being gone this weekend, I didn't get to sleep until 4 am Friday night and had an awful night of sleep.  Dreams of apocalyptic evacuations and not being able to find Beth.  Woke up for good at 11 - much later than I wanted - and spent most of the afternoon puttering around the house.  Nothing major - some laundry, worked on the script a little, jailbroke my old iPhone (more on that one day), and then did my run at about 4:00.

I did it at the gym on the treadmill, but it went pretty well.  Again, Week 4 on the C25K program, I took it slow - kept it at a steady 5.5 mph (11 minute miles) rather than pressing at 6+.  I know I need to work on that, but for right now, until I get that base down, I think discretion may be the better part of valor.

Skipped the strength; I was beat and still had a ghost tour to do that night.

Once again, didn't sleep well Saturday night, either. Woke up later than I wanted to at 8 am. Made it to the Farmer's Market, and after a cup of coffee and an Ethel and Ramone's sandwich was feeling pretty good. Brought my haul back, scurried around, pumped up the bike tires and grabbed my swim suit and goggles and made it down to the gym.

I used the MyTracks Android app. Google designed, I think, and it worked pretty okay. When I got home I uploaded both legs. You can see that it isn't quite as good as the Garmin - but it more or less was free. Not bad. I think I'll keep using it when I don't have access to Beth's watch.

The swim was tough. Lots of people already at 11:30 am, so I need to do this earlier. Got lucky and went to jump in a lane and the guy did one more lap and left, so I got the lane to myself. But I think I started too fast. No fancy gizmos to confirm that, and the first two lengths I felt great. But I more or less stopped and had to tread water for a couple seconds on the third length. I didn't give myself nearly as much recovery time as I had a couple of days ago, and dug back in - slower this time - after only a couple of minutes. Again - real struggle, but I gutted through it. The second intermission was a little longer, but still not the five minutes I was taking earlier in the week. Same struggle with the third set.

Changed, jumped on the bike, and rode hard to get back home. This was more challenging because it was uphill and a little longer, but I was just over 1mph slower than going downhill in the morning.

I came home, checked the distance between jetties at Broadkill Beach - 128 yards - and then sorta crashed before getting moving again and cleaning the house before Beth got home. No nap, mind you, but folded laundry, watched the O's for a little while, and finished up the cuts I had laid out for the script. The nap came after Beth got home, and I passed out for a half hour before making an Amy's frozen pizza for dinner. Nowhere near enough energy to work on the back slab - maybe I can get to that this week before we head to BKB for the 4th.

Whew. Not your typical busy - but it's been two pretty full days. I'm ready to watch a little ESPN Sunday night baseball, read a little, and pass out, so I can hit the strength tomorrow.