Budget!

So in the spirit of fiscal conservatism, I'm paring some items from my exercise budget and hoping to replace them with free equivalents.

I will cancel my EN subscription. I think I've gotten a lot out of it, but I'm duplicating a lot of the functionality of my team energi membership.

I'm not renewing my training peaks premium account -- the only premium feature I'm using now is the ability to schedule workouts in advance. In its place, I'm using google calendar.

ATB Results

Summary: The best execution of the worst fitness possible.

The stats:

Time: 2:30:12.4

Chip: 2:28:48.9

Pace: 5:01

Category:  M35-39

Category Place: 113/412

Gender Place: 700/2963 

@10kmSplit : 51:03
@15kmSplit : 1:15:59
@20km : 1:40:39

I kept to the plan pretty closely, though I was faster in the opening 7km, by the time the race had started, I had revised the plan for the first 7k to be 5:15-ish, I think was around 5:08. I had to constantly force myself to slow down here ... going backwards through the field, hating every second of it.

Middle 16 were just under 5 (4:56, I think). Slowly moving up through the field, but no great advances. Holding back, but not as hard.

KM 20 signals the start of the rolling hills, I wasn't sure if I could hold my 4:45 plan, but I managed 4:46 for the last 7k. I made some serious advances here, especially on the downhills when I could let my legs go.

I negative on the overall split (even would have been 1:32:00), so mission accomplished there.

Next year, I'm going to get a silver medal (2 hrs to 2:15).

Slow recovery

Coming off the antibiotics ... had a long run Thursday morning, just to see what Sunday's going to be like. Managed 5.15s for an hour, then 45 minutes of interval work (4.05-4.15), but only got through six of the eight planned sets before I blew up.

I'm hoping to average 5:15 min/km for ATB on Sunday. Going to be very careful about the pacing (5:30 for the first 7km, 5:10-5:15 for the middle 16km, then 5 or better for the last 7). That's 2:37:30. 13 minutes off my PB. Stupid cold. Negative split is the only silver lining here.

On the plus side, it should be cold and icy.

Had enough

Ran the Chili half in 1:43:31 -- which is mediocre, unless you consider that I was in the midst of a two week chest cold, then it's stupid.

Boy's sick, I'm sick, I'm done my OS, and am taking two weeks to do sweet F A. Except that I'm sick (as mentioned), so I couldn't be training anyways. So now I'm restless (not doing anything), yet exhausted (boy doesn't sleep well when sick) and cold (down to 75.0Kg), except when I'm hot because of my cold.

And it's snowing again.

meh.