tbl wisdom + dreams.

tbl wisdom:

it was a long day. I had to drive to another county to be a 'special prosecutor' [we share prosecutors and judges with our sister county when there is a conflict of interest with a defendant]. turned into a gas station and didn't realize there was a low curb - and I busted open the transmission pan [?] and the fluid leaked everywhere.

to make a long-and-not-particularly-interesting-story short, it's "only" about $300. to get it fixed, my boss took me back to work, and my husband picked me up.

the worst part: I missed running with my running group.

so: to the gym I went at 8:00p to watch The Biggest Loser and run 5 mi.

[ 5.10 miles in 46m 55s // 09m 12s/Mi ]

Comment from one of the contestants to another, whose bottom was getting sore on the bike: don't worry, it goes numb after a while.

what is my butt going to feel like after seven hours on a bike?


dreams:

I dream about tris and marathons a good 2-3x/week.

Although they aren't reoccuring dreams, they are very similar.

running related dreams: the run has 'obstacles' in it --- running up and down stairs in someone's house on the course, making an omlette in someone's kitchen, finding my way around an unmarked - or not well marked - course. sometimes I'm winning [that's how I should know it's a dream!].

last night I dreamt J and I were running a marathon together. --- but we were running it in an aerobics room - in place. I finished the last mile on a track.

tri related dreams: not having goggles at the start of a race, having to run through the woods/ trails to find my bike -- and my parents and sister and J were there and no one had a camera and they were all leaving to go on a boat ride around the island.

two nights ago I had a dream that I was on the Columbia tri course. I had finished the bike and was ready to go out on the run. we had to have a meeting before going out on a run -- and the run was to the turn around point of the bike course. and for my finish time they used my watch time.

[I do have to say that tri/ running dreams beat the pants off of Bar dreams]

what are your tri/ running dreams?

[try to keep up]

sked called for 12 miles, but I ran out too far, so I ended up with an extra mile [d'oh!]:

13.10 miles in 1h 56m 23s // 08m 53s/Mi

rain + a little sleet. so tired of winter. spring: come on!

felt really good during the second half. I can't seem to pick it up until the second half of a run. understand that negative splits are good, but I think I should probably get in a 20-30 minute easy run before the start of the marathon.

oh, and I am almost 100 per cent sure I will be running with the 3:50:00 pace group.

National in t minus 3 wks + 6 d.s!

splits:
mile 1: 9:14
mile 2: 9:21
mile 3: 9:24 [slowest]
mile 4: 9:05
mile 5: 9:12
mile 6: 8:52
mile 7: 8:42
mile 8: 8:47
mile 9: 8:48
mile 10: 8:41
mile 11: 8:23 [fastest]
mile 12: 8:36
mile 13: 8:36

totals 9 february through 15 sunday

swim: 3400.00 M in 1h 12m 02s
bike: 14.00 Mi in 47m
run: 37.32 Mi in 5h 34m 18s

total: 07h 33m 20s

sunday's 20, and: which is worse?

first, which is worse: 3hrs on your feet at just over a 9 min mile pace, or seven minutes in an ice bath? I'll let you all ponder that.

20.05 miles in 3h 01m 56s // 09m 04s/Mi.

I decided to keep it all in the city again. to those of you to which this will make sense: from butcher's hill up to waverly, around lake montebello, down charles, through federal hill, finish through harbor east/ fells, and back up the side of the park.

I felt pretty good until mile 16-17 -- that's when the pain [not surprisingly] set in.

I'm listening to The Ivy Chrononicles, which is a fun listen. ... no sexy vampire family of course, but it'll do !

[Karen Quinn's The Ivy Chronicles is the amusing story of what happens when a New Yorker loses her job, her husband, and her ritzy Park Avenue pad and is forced to carve out a new niche for herself and her two private school-educated daughters. After transferring the girls to public school and renting a shabby-chic (at best) flat upstairs from a knicherie, Ivy Ames takes her billionaire friend Faith's advice and starts a consulting business to help privileged pre-schoolers get into the city's premier kindergartens.]

splits:
mile 1: 8:44
mile 2: 9:09
mile 3: 9:16
mile 4: 9:25
mile 5: 9:25
mile 6: 9:07
mile 7: 8:54
mile 8: 9:10
mile 9: 9:15
mile 10: 8:53
mile 11: 8:37 [fastest]
mile 12: 9:17
mile 13: 9:08
mile 14: 8:43
mile 15: 8:45
mile 16: 8:55
mile 17: 8:53
mile 18: 9:32 [slowest]
mile 19: 9:12
mile 20: 9:10

vertigo + saturday 10.

Vertigo (from the Latin vertigin-, vertigo, "dizziness," originally "a whirling or spinning movement," from vertere "to turn"[1]) is a specific type of dizziness, a major symptom of a balance disorder. It is the sensation of spinning or swaying while the body is actually stationary with respect to the surroundings.

I woke up thursday morning and showered. I remember being a little unsteady during my shower, but attributed that to being tired. I don't remember the next part, but according to J., I couldn't get dressed. he said I stumbled around until he got up to help me, and then I knocked all of my jewelry off of my nighstand. after sleeping a good 8 hours, I went back to bed and slept from 7:30 am until 3:00 pm. ate, then back to bed until 9 pm. ate, then slept from 11 pm until 7 am friday morning.

after walking into some walls at work and spilling my diet coke at lunch, I decided to go to the doctor. he attributed it to vertigo, and after running some tests [I did the walk and turn, just like my defendants!] he sent me home. I felt great today, until a few hours after my run. the spinning/ uneasy/ 'off' / clumsy feeling returned. I got OTC medicine at the pharmacy, and that seems to help. what a pita.

[it doesn't seem to be harming my training though, which is good.]

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what's NOT a pita? my run today! woo!

um, my sked said 10, but I got it stuck in my head that it was 12. I remembered that at mile 10 ... and still 2 mi from my house. nicely played.

12.05 miles in 1h 42m 57s // 08m 32s/Mi

The Infinit nutrition didn't work out so well .... I got a little crampy towards the end. think I'll stick with the Accelerade. splits good -- I am *definitely* getting faster, which is a huge ego booster :).

splits:
mile 1: 8:49
mile 2: 8:52
mile 3: 9:31 [slowest]
mile 4: 8:16
mile 5: 8:23
mile 6: 8:33
mile 7: 8:26
mile 8: 8:30
mile 9: 8:03 [fastest!]
mile 10: 8:31
mile 11: 8:16
mile 12: 8:24