The temperature dropped suddenly ! Brrrrr … And windy too …
17min biking to the track
18min warm up with my sicilian friend
stretch, drill, stride (4 with trainers, 2 with spikes)
600m (4’rest), 400m (4’rest), 400m (4’rest). The target times were: under 2’, and under 1:12 for the 400s
>> 1:52, 1:12, 1:10. Ughh… Legs were tight all the time, despite the good warm up. I HATE cold … I don’t know what to do to relax in it.
1 lap cool down.
30min gym (strength, abs and stretching)
17min biking home.
Now I have a runny nose. This is another after-training-winter symptom … I need to boost up my immune system more.
Another off day (third of the week), but regarding the fact that I’ve had 5 good sessions, and 3 good illnesses (Monday fever, Thursday food poisoning and Saturday cold) :P, it’s best to rest and get some color on my cheeks !!
Winter winter … let’s make peace.
This is a good video of what myths have been said about Greece during this economical crisis, and what the truths and potentials are. It was presented during the BHCC Annual London Conference ~ 28 June 2011. It’s a nice one
5 x 80m w/walk back recoveries @ 9.80-10.15" (good stuff… I love running with my Sicilian friend, because I try to keep up with his frequency, like a magnet, and I go faster…) , 5min rest
5 x 60m w/walk back recoveries @ 7.80-8.18 (my acceleration needs work, obviously, if you’ve kept up with my training so far ) , 7min rest
1 x 300m @ 43.8 ( ) fastest since September (well, June, technically, which was a 42.something…). Yay.
oh goodness… I can’t believe no one in my class is attempting to graduate this Febr/March… I’m the only one submitting final material for the phd.
Fingers crossed.
Longggg mostly pointless meeting, a waste of half a day.
Oh well, let’s move on now
(- 17min biking to uni
17min biking back home )
Night quick-easy-recovery- training.
Yeah right…
I got knocked over by a freakin DOG !!!
I was jogging (15min), and this huge puffy dog came running at fulll speed towards me, barking (he probably wanted to play, but anyway, this kind of thing scares me just a bit…). I decided to just continue jogging, but the creature didn’t even stop, and collided right on my leg, at the outside of my knee, and knocked me over on the grass… One second I was standing, the other I was on the ground.
Thank goodness it didn’t attack me more :o
The owners arrived casually 30" later to a pissed-off me, because my knee was hurting, but I left them wondering if I was hurt or not.
12 x 100m tempo runs on grass
That felt fine, but now that I’m home, I do have some slight knee irritation. Hopefully it goes away by tomorrow.
ahhh… only 10 more days till the end of October. It’s funny how SMALL the months seem with BIG work tasks in one’s head !!
But how I am lovinggggg Milan’s weather this fall … !! This is very untypical.
17min to the track
Sicilian training
20min warm up
stretch, drill, stride
200, 150, 200, 150, 200, 150 (walk back recoveries) @ 29.4, 22.4, 30.1, 21.5, 30.3, 22.1 (lactic-ouch in the end)
17min biking back
And that’s it.
Oh. My knee has been bothering me from the dog-collision since this morning, with some trouble going down the stairs, but it’s slowly going away. =) (all fine during training).
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Last night in my dream, there was a group of sword killers that entered my Thessaloniki home, and they killed a bunch of people there - there were all lying dead. I didn’t get hurt, but I decided to fall down and play dead, by the front door. The killers were wandering around, bragging on their accomplishment. One woman who remained alive, got raped by the fire place of my living room.
I then realized, that laying down there by the front door, the door would eventually have to open, and I would be thrown aside - I didn’t want that. So while no-one was looking, I changed my position, and moved away from the door - stomach always facing down.
After a few minutes, one of the killers, (who looked like a pirate of the Carribean), screamed “oh nooo you didn’ttttt” and attacked me with his sword, and stabbed me on the back.
The sword remained there.
I didn’t feel anything, because the sword was blocking the would, and no blood came out.
I got up (sword inside my back and everything), and headed to my room. I sat on the bed, across the woman who was raped before, and I think I talked to her.
I still felt no pain, but I remember expecting a warm feeling to come, that would be the blood running out of my body.
So I laid on my side, on the bed, and waited.
Friday, Oct. 28th, 2011
(17min biking)
20min warm up run
many strides and many drills and that was ittttt (supervised by sicilian coach)
(17min biking home)
5 x 60m (walk back) @~8.2-8.3s (sicilian buddy has a minor injury, so he was just watching, and I didn’t have him next to me to ‘steal’ his momentum, so these were slightly slower than other times. I hope he feels better FAST)
1 x 300m @ 44.5 (slower than last time’s 43, but also done alone) oh well.
(17min biking back home)
p.s. this point I’ve reached severalll times (just not as early, and never so UNinjured). Time to start overcoming mind-barriers now… It should be interesting…
Sunday:
OFF
Monday, Oct. 31st, 2011
30min run
12 x 100m grass tempo runs
7min cool down
Time to add an extra ‘stimulus’… perhaps start doing 500+ abs per day could make some difference.
Oh, and some more arm work. !!
(Athens on Wednesday for 6 days, and Thessaloniki for another 6, and then back to Milan)
Italians are OBSESSED with dogs. EVERYONE at the park was only dealing with their dog. I don’t think one single person directly talked to another person about something, unless it was about the dog…
What a canine-day…
Personal sin: I did not do my “transformation” run, which should have been a 400, 500 or 600 at the end.
Only because I was alone. My training partner is recovering from a foot niggle. Darnnn…
( 15min biking back home)
Travel day tomorrow !!! (but also training with my Athens-group )
Saturday, Nov. 12th
OFF (oldest sister’s Baby Shower party =)). I’m going to be an aunt in about a month =)))) ) (girl)
Sunday, Nov. 13th
OFF (travel to Milan. HUGE headache towards the end. I had a cold all day, and I cold when I went to bed at night. Which converted into a 38.9 dC fever, which I couldn’t manage to drop, all night =S )
A bit better in the morning
Monday, Nov. 14th,
OFF (fever gone, but, ya know… this day had to be off)
Exciting training, wasn’t it?
Tuesday, Nov. 15th (cold)
15min warm up
stretch, drill, strides
6 x 200m at a relaxed pace (I had to do only warm up, drills, strides and go home, but I decided to jump in since I was feeling ok).
for the first 4 recoveries were very short - only 100m walk, times were 31, 31, 32, 33, then took two longer rests, and 31, 31. Ok, I suppose, under the circumstances.
Wednesday, Nov. 16th
40min run
(dinner at the coach’s house, and it was a very DELICIOUS and MUSICAL night. This guy can play the keyboard, the guitar, and has a GREAT voice).
Thursday, Nov. 17th
(15min biking)
15min warm up
stretch, drill, stride
(legs feeling a bit “off” due to the influence of fabulous white wine from the night before, so did a pretty ‘relaxed’ training (again) )
400m (@1:12), rest 4’
300m (@50), rest 3’
200m (@30), rest 4’
150m (@22)
cool down
40min gym (strength, ab work and stretching)
(15min biking)
Friday, Nov. 18th
(15min biking)
15min warm up
stretch, drill, stride
5 x 80m, walk back recoveries (we weren’t timing these, because it was VERY cold and we had to be careful), 4’ rest
5 x 60m, walk back recoveries, 5’ rest (almost pulled a hammie here, but all good).
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