Stefanie's

Tuesday, Oct. 18th, 2011

nice and rested =)
And not as cold =)

  • 17min biking to uni track

  • 20min warm up with group

  • stretch, drill, stride (trainers and spikes)

  • 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 :stuck_out_tongue: ) , 7min rest

  • 1 x 300m @ 43.8 ( :slight_smile: ) fastest since September (well, June, technically, which was a 42.something…). Yay.

  • 30min gym (strength, abs and good stretching)

  • 17min bike back.

Pleased pleased pleased.

Wednesday, Oct. 19th, 2011

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 :slight_smile:

(- 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.

  • 20min ab work

Goodness…

Maybe I should have some Sicilian limoncello…

Good thing you don’t have antelope in your neighborhood.

//youtu.be/vlPszRbUqVA

Thank goodness for that =))

Thursday, Oct. 20th, 2011

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).

Friday, Oct. 21st, 2011

  • 17min biking

  • 40min run (@4.40/km) I can’t believe I’m posting running pace like that… like my distance-runner friends :stuck_out_tongue:

  • 4 x 100m strides

  • 17min biking

tired today and cold. And stomach issues. This iron consumption is not working well for me. Unless it’s the multivitamin… God knows.

Saturday, Oct. 22nd

  • 17min biking

  • 20min warm up

  • 4 x 100m strides, stretching

  • 3 x 40m accels

  • 5 x 80m hills, w/ walk back recoveries
    5min rest

  • 5 x 80m hills, as above
    5min rest

  • 1 x 700m cross/country (aaiii…) distance not so accurate, time about 1:25

  • 10min cool down.

  • 17min biking

((((headacheeeeeeeeeeeee)))))

people who truly care are so RARE. I’m blessed to have found a couple, on this foreign land.

Which is almost 13.0 km.h-1 :slight_smile:

If 1:25 or there about is correct, the 700-m X-country is shorter for sure.

Yes Nick, I might as well enter the x-country national competition in February … :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: I can offer the team some points, so it seems… =S

Sunday, Oct. 23rd
off

Monday, Oct. 24th

8am training (all on grass)

  • 15min warm up
  • 16 staights of drills into strides
  • 2 x 100m strides
  • 5min cool down

7pm training

  • 40min run along the canal (this was alone, so I don’t have the ‘tempo’)
  • 4 x 100m strides
    stretching

Tuesday, Oct. 25th

raining alllll dayyyy longggg. But I asked for Sicilian training anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

(17min biking)

  • 20min run

  • fartlek: 4 x (run 500m - fast stride 200m) , all one continuous set.

  • 7min cool down

  • 40min gym (strength, abs, stretching)

( 17min biking home).

I love crab meat.
And drawing.
Now I also love Renzo Meschis, a Sicilian painter. http://www.renzomeschis.it/#

Wednesday, Oct. 26th, 2011

(all on grass)

  • 15min run

  • 20min drilling along with strides

  • 4 x 60m bounding on grass

  • 15min run

[i]
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.

Then I woke up.
[/i]

Thursday, Oct. 27th, 2011

(17min biking)

  • 20min warm up run

  • stretch, drill, stride

  • 7 x 150m w/walk back recoveries @20.6-21.8

  • 30min gym (strength, abs, stretch)

(17min biking)

woooops I’m behind with training updates

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)

Saturday, Oct. 29th
(17min biking)
15min warm up, stretch, drill, stride

  • 5 x 80m (walk back) @ 9.8-10.2
  • 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… :slight_smile:

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)

Tuesday, Nov. 1st (HAPPY MONTH), 2011

(17min biking + 10min biking)

  • 15min warm up jog
    stretch, stride
  • 5 x 80m hills
  • 5 x 80m hills

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 :slight_smile: )

Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, 2011

travel, blahh blah blah …

training with marathoners !

I am aware the following training is more for a 1500m runner =P but at least it proves fitness !

15min warm up (stretching)
4 km @ 4.26, 4.08, 4.08, 4.07 (!!) , 8min break
1km (@4.10) , 4min break
1,5km (@4.07/km) , 6min break
1,5 (@3.55/km)

stretching

Thursday, Nov. 3rd, 2011

  • 15min warm up, stretch, drill, stride
  • 5 x 200m (walk back recoveries and in much colder weather, brrr…) @ 29.75, 29.87, 30.15, 29.00, 29.20

cool down

Friday, Nov. 4th, 2011

  • 30min run

Saturday, Nov. 5th, 2011

off

Sunday, Nov. 6th, 2011

tried to run but I had a huge blister that was not ‘pampered’ enough for running… went home

Monday, Nov. 7th, 2011

  • 30min run
  • 10 x 70m strides ala tempo

Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 2011

  • 20min warm up run
    stretch, 4 x 60m strides
  • 5 x 80m hills
  • 5 x 80m hills

Ok, so this is a ‘recovery’ week …
(going to Milan on Sunday)

Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 2011
I forgot… it was something light.

Thursday, Nov. 10th, 2011

  • 20min warm up, stretch

  • 5 x 100 stairs (singles)

  • 5 x 100 stairs (doubles)

  • 1 x 300m fast relaxed

cool down

Friday, Nov. 11th, 2011

-20min warm up, stretch
fartlek:

  • 6 x 400 all one continuous set,>> fast stride 120m, and light run the rest.
    cool down

Hold your breath for this:

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? :stuck_out_tongue:

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).

  • 1 x 300m @46" (very relaxed at the first 150m)

(15min biking)

Saturday, Nov. 19th
soreeee todayyyy :slight_smile: (I like this kind of pain)

30min + 30min of biking

Sunday, Nov. 20th

(15min biking > fabulousssss, no cars in Milan today =))) )

  • 15min fast warm up (this sicilian is incapable of warming up slowly …)
    stretching, drills

  • 3 x strides

  • 4 x 110m hills + 6 x 100m hills (all with 1’10" recovery, > pretty much jogging back). 6 min recovery

  • 4 x 60m hills, (walk back recoveries). 6min recovery

  • 900m fast stride.

  • 10min cool down

(15min biking)

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee training. <3

Monday, Nov. 21st
morning:

  • 20min run
  • DRILLS
  • few strides

evening:

  • 40min run (progressive)

Tuesday, Nov. 22nd

(15min biking)

  • 20min warm up

  • stretch, drill, stride

  • 300, 200, 300, 200, 300, 200 (1min walk rests, shortly longer between reps 4 and 5), @ 51, 34, 53, 34, 52, 32

gym:
40min strength, abs and stretch

(15min biking)

Wednesday, Nov. 23rd

(15min biking)

  • 20min + 20min run (progressive) (the “+” was a short bathroom break)

(25min biking)

(30min bking)

Thursday, Nov. 24th, 2011

(15min biking)

  • 20min warm up run
    stretch, drill , stride

  • 6 x 150m walk back recoveries
    3min break

  • 1 x 150m
    3min break

  • 1 x 150m
    (times: 21-22")

(15min biking)

(15min biking)

(15min biking)

Tireddddd… (last day off was Monday the 14th, but I’m resting this Saturday). Other than that, all is perfect =)