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Training Log: Week Ending 4/26/14

Weekly Total: 33 miles. Tapering for Miwok. The hay is in the barn!

Sunday AM: 7+ miles, easy, Pancake Loop.

Monday AM: 5 miles, the 100th running of the Lexington Lion’s Club Patriot’s Day 5 Miler (and my 4th running). Fast! (for me!) Finish time of 35:56, which is a 7:12 min/mile pace and almost a minute faster than last year. A great way to celebrate Patriot’s Day, Marathon Monday, running in general, and the bliss that is a perfect New England spring day. I finished 3rd in my age group (out of 47) and 9th girl (out of 205).


Monday AM: 6+ miles easy. Immediately after the race, I saw on the results that were posted that I finished third in my age group. This left me out of the running for a trophy (which is for the top two in each age group), BUT the first girl in my division also finished as the first Lexingtonian. So, I thought maybe the second place trophy would bump down to me, since most races don’t double-dip on the awards. I stayed for the awards while Mr. P left with Little Boy and it turned out that they don’t double-dip. I jogged home with no trophy but still mighty proud of myself for earning a 5-mile PR.

Tuesday AM: 60 minutes swimming. Certainly sore from the speedy race.

Wednesday AM: 60 minutes swimming. Not sore anymore but I am tapering. And besides, I’ve started doing flip turns in the pool and I love it.

Thursday AM: 8 miles running. First weekday morning trails of the year! It’s finally light enough at 6 am that I can make it up to the local Audubon property and do loops on the .8 mile gentle trail that I adore. Surprisingly my hamstring was still a bit tweaked from running fast on Monday.

Friday AM: 60 minutes swimming.

Friday PM: 4 mile walk, 1.5 with Little Boy. Since it’s Spring Break, Little Boy has been going to vacation camp at another elementary school in our town. Friday was such a nice day that I walked to pick him up, taking a mommy-only diversion en route. Last year, walking 1.5 miles with Little Boy would have been very daunting — he could do it physically, but mentally would be very distraught. This year dare I say he even enjoyed the walk, looking at the flowers and tree blooms, talking about the cars passing up, and stopping at playgrounds to play with friends who we serendipitously spy from the sidewalk.

Saturday AM: Volunteer, TARC Spring Classic. Mr. P signed up to run the half-marathon at the TARC Spring Classic. I decided to volunteer for the good karma that comes from being around the TARC folks. They were short on help setting up so I arrived at 6am to get the main aid station situated; Mr. P showed up with Little Boy at 7:30 for the 8am race start. So Little Boy became an aid station volunteer.

I was tasked with setting up the grills, boiling water for hot drinks, cooking potatoes (which trail runners love), and sorting/clearing the donated food items. TARC events always ask participants to bring food donations for the aid station (probably 80% of it winds up getting donated to a local shelter). So the first job I gave Little Boy (after taste-testing the brownies) was putting the non-perishable food in plastic bags. Since there were about 300 runners, there was a lot of food we had to clear off the table to make room for the actually aid!

We had the aid station in pretty good shape one hour into the race. W saw Mr. P finish is first loop and start on his second. We started making soup for the runners, which was much needed because it was raining pretty hard and the runners were chilled. Pretty soon more volunteers came to help out, which was a good thing because it was time to start grilling foods and I didn’t want to be responsible for charred grilled cheese!

Mr. P finished in one hour and 47 minutes (or something like that). By then the aid station had more than enough awesome volunteers to take over so I said good-bye (“You can’t leave, you’re in charge!” “I’m not in charge, I was just the first person here!”), allowed Little Boy to taste test one last brownie, and we departed.

Saturday AM: 4 miles running, treadmill.

Saturday PM: 3 miles running, road, hills.

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