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Whew! Tonight we ran relays on the track. We ran 400 meters 12 times-that's 3 miles! My partner was Robert, a new participant this season. He's training for the Kaiser Half in San Francisco.
Of course after our track work out Coach Kirs leads us in our post run stretches and core workout. I don't think she works us out long enough, but that's just me. I will tell her that we should do more reps of everything but I don't think that will go over well with other people. (Yep, I was that kid that always reminded the teacher to give the class our homework assignment.)
Surprisingly it wasn't that cold tonight. Lot's of people were in shorts but not me. I had my beanie, my long sleeved running shirt
, jacket, and running pants-well running capri pants. I did get warm after the warm up run and a couple of laps that I took off my jacket and beanie. The only sucky thing about a relay in the cold is getting a chill waiting for your partner. I was constantly taking my jacket on and taking it off. I get cold very easily.
All in all it was a great workout and I can't wait till next week. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
It was a chilly 43 degrees this morning when I arrived at the LLS and TNT office parking lot.The sun was peeking up from behind the tall trees. The TNTers huddled around in groups for warmth and some evern wrapped themselves in towels.
So, today I ran 8 miles along the beautiful Guadalupe Park Trail in down town San Jose. We ran through the Guadalupe rose garden just north of down town, down along the trickling river into downtown right by the Shark tank pass Paolo's and the Center for the Performing Arts (the cake building home to the San Jose Ballet), and by Deer Meadow at the Children's Discovery Museum up the freeway 280! Then we turned back to the start only we passed the start to get in a total of 8 miles.
As I was running I ran into two new participants, Felicia and Claudia. They were interested in doing a run-walk and I being an alumni have my watch and intervals going already and asked them to join me. Running info-I do interval runs which means I run for five minutes and walk one minute. I am not as tired at the end and can go a longer distance by doing interval runs. Felicia and Claudia were a little suspicious about it but wanted to try it-they've heard so many good things about from the clinic Coach Tim gave the previous Saturday. The ladies really appreciated the minute walks during the last two miles. It's really going to help them when they run their marathon and mine.
At the end of the run we had a great potluck, check out the spread in the slideshow. Everyone enjoyed the recovery drink someone brought for us all, chocolate milk for those of you who don't know.
Overall it was a great run. A little bit chilly, ok a lot chilly in the morning because I was freezing my butt off, but as the sun came up it warmed really nicely. Let's hope all my long distance runs are like this throughout the winter season. Ah, let's wish really hard that it will be because I'm not looking forward to running in the rain.
See you Tuesday night after track!
Wow! A total of 15 people showed up for our 6 am buddy run at Campbell Park! That's the largest group I've seen since joining TNT! From left to right they are: Debra (my winter season mentor), Victoria (my summer season mentor), Luisa, Brian, Rakhee, Steve, Julie, me, Coach Tim right behind me, Janine, Andria, Bruce, Arianna, and John. Tanja is always camera shy in the morning and took the photo. Yup, it was cold this morning and dark. The funny things you see on a couple of runners heads are headlamps to light our path.Most of the group ran 4 miles today. Yup, 4 miles really early in the morning. It gets up heart pumping, our minds going, and prepares us for the day. It also wakes up all the kinks in our bodies and we hear some groans and moans and som teasing complaints along the way like these from Coach Tim, "My knee hurts, why does it hurt Steve? Why doesn't it hurt other times Steve?" I'll take a picture of Coach Tim next time so you'll understand what I mean.Kinks. My kink is plantar fasciitis. It's not really a kink but a pain I'm feeling on my right foot stretching from the heel to the ball inside the arch. I've been massaging it, icing it, and rolling it over a frozen water/rubbing alcohol mixture and it has improved dramatically. My foot no longer screams at me when I wake up in the morning but has a dull pain when I first step on to it; it's improved. During this morning run it felt bad enough to slow me down. As soon as I reached the end, or near the end, I started walking until Coach Tim encouraged me to slap his hand at the end. As soon as I slapped it I sat down and pulled off my shoe rubbing my arch.Coach Tim sat next to me and explained what plantar fasciitis is and things I can do to heal it like being brutal to my foot and rolling it over a golf ball. Yeah, sounds like fun. The main cause of my plantar fasciitis was wearing the wrong shoes. I've learned my lesson and bought proper shoes. I'll be using them on Saturday.So, as we stood up Coach Tim, and the other runners, noticed that we left wet butt prints on the concrete. Needless to say his was huge and mine was small and cute. Sorry folks, I really didn't want to take a picture of that. I hope you don't mind. See you on the trails.
This was my first track of the winter season at Los Gatos High School and the first workout was circuit training. This is a workout that combines running with strength exercises. It's hardcore. Just look at how tired my mentor Debra and I are, not to mention our lovely glow at 55 degrees.
So the team ran 200 meters and reached the first strength training station and do three different kinds of toe walks-one set of 20 each; ran another 200 meter, basically to the other end of the track to the second strength training station to drop and do 10 push ups; run and do heel walks; run and do planks; run and do 15 lunges on each leg. You get the drift. So we did side planks for 30 seconds on each side, 15 leg raises, 15 stepping side squats on both sides, 15 clams for each leg, 15 stationary squats, 30 crunches, 20 grapevines for each side, 40 second bridge, 15 stationary runner for each leg, and finally the rope climber for a set of 15! Whew! That was great! What? Do it again?!!! Ok. But remember, we ran 200 meters at a comfortably hard pace between each station. Comfortably hard? That sounds like an oxymoron but it means running at a somewhat hard but manageable conversation pace. Debra will surely disagree with me and refused to do round two with me.
Well, Debra and I didn't do the entire series because of time constraints but we made it up to leg raises! With the warm up run and the running in between the strength training I ran a total of 3 3/4 miles.
After the track workout Coach Kris led us all in static stretches to lengthen our muscles after pounding them. It was much needed relief. Once we were done with our stretches the team gathered in to listen, and to keep warm, to Honoree Patti speak about her battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma. She is now in remission and strong She ran track with us! Track ended with a loud Go Team!
But wait, there's more. A large group of us then went to CB Hannegan's in downtown Los Gatos for Hang with the Gang. We talked, ate and knocked back a few making it the perfect ending to a great workout.
Hi everyone!
Well, in case you haven't heard yet I am training for my second marathon with Team in Training. So this blog is where I'll post all my experiences, photos, and running log.
I loved my first experience with TNT that I became hooked! The coaches, the mentors, the captains, all the running we do and the best part of it is saving lives! Raising money that will go to cancer research, specifically blood related cancer. 75% of all donations go directly to research and patient financial aid! And your donation is 100% tax-deductible!
Like the title states, my training has begun. I've ran a total of 20 miles so far-it's only been two weeks! Tomorrow, that's Tuesday, I have my first track workout at Los Gatos High School. We'll be doing circuits! A circuit workout consists of running a lap followed by a strength or core strength exercise. We'll do that for 2 to 4 miles. I can't wait!
, jacket, and running pants-well running capri pants. I did get warm after the warm up run and a couple of laps that I took off my jacket and beanie. The only sucky thing about a relay in the cold is getting a chill waiting for your partner. I was constantly taking my jacket on and taking it off. I get cold very easily.
