Week 5 In Review

8-23-10
Strength training at NHHR

8-24-10
7 miles (1hr 6mins)
Up East Rock; down Whitney after work. No further comments.

8-25-10
Strength training at NHHR

8-26-10
7 miles (59mins)
3x1600 at Wilbur Cross High School track (6:49; 6:55; 6:56)
Legs felt dead 0.5 miles into warmup. Intervals were tough. Strangely, legs felt best during last few minutes of cooldown. I was supposed to do 7:15 miles, but I went a bit faster (unintentionally). These times are much faster than the ones I did a few weeks ago.

8-27-10
7 miles (1hr 5mins)
Up East Rock; down Whitney before work. Legs felt tired but strong. Usually do this route a couple of minutes slower, but exerted same effort and produced slightly faster run. Left for Portland. Late night. Was kind of pissed about missing gym, but I survived.

8-28-10
Portland, ME. Three sets of pushups at hotel. Continued drive from Portland to Seal Cove.

8-29-10
20 miles (3hrs 7mins)
Mount Desert Island in Maine. Started at cottage in Seal Cove: ran south on 120, east on Seal Cove Road (Acadia National Park), north on 120, west on 120, south on 120, east back into Acadia National Park above Hodgdon Pond, and back to the cottage. The route was extremely hilly. Probably the hilliest route I've ever done. It was pretty hot, too. My legs didn't feel great, but I certainly had the endurance. Had at least another gear and some energy left to go farther at the finish. After the run, I wolfed down a big bowl of fruit salad and walked down to Somes Cove (across the dirt road) to swim in the ice cold water. That's the life up there.

Miles: 41
Time: 6hrs 19mins