Work, Run, Work

Thursday, April 26th 7pm

Clear

Course: work/Boulder Creek Loop

Planned Run: 5 miles (3 miles Tempo @ 7:27)

Distance: 4.2 miles (3 miles Tempo)

Time: 36:41 (24:11)

Pace: 9:55 (8:04)

HR: ?

Started working off a new marathon training plan.  I don't have a marathon coming up, just felt the need for some added structure to my runs.

Today would have gone a lot better if I hadn't had a fajita 45 minutes before I went out (BIG mistake).

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Work, Run, Work

Wednesday, April 25th 3pm

Cool, slightly rainy

Course: work/Boulder Creek Loop

Distance 3 miles

Time: 26:08 (8:43 pace)

HR: 167

Ran with Juan and we probably knocked about 2 minutes off the same loop from last week.

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Ouch!

Sunday, April 21st 2pm

Cool, sunny

Course: Boulder Canyon

Distance 6 miles

Time: unknown

Stopped earlier than i wanted to because I felt some chafing.  good thing I did too since I turned out to have a noticeable amount of blood inside my shorts when i took them off to shower.  Very unpleasant.

As a result, no run on Monday, I don't want to aggravate the chafing any more, it's sore when i walk around and very sensitive.

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Run x2

Tuesday, April 10th 5pm
Cool, sunny
Course: Boulder Canyon
Distance 5.2k
Time/HR
2:02 / 137 (home to Boulder Creek/9th)
7:02 / 166 (9th to Park)
5:59 / 170 (Park to Turnaround at Curve)
5:44 / 155
6:05 / 173
1:50 / 182
t = 28:42


Thursday, April 12th 5:30pm
35, Flurries
Course: Boulder Canyon
Distance 5.2k
Time/HR
2:12 / 144
7:09 / 166
6:10 / 174
5:26 / 167
6:12 / 173
2:07 / 177
t = 29:16 / 169

I like the Boulder Canyon run, it's scenic and is all uphill on the way out, then downhill on the way back. The trail is well maintained (if a bit sandy at the end).

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Bicycle... Bicycle...!

What is a bicycle? A bicycle is freedom.

The average human doesn't like to travel more than half an hour, this is something anthropologists have found throughout many cultures and across many periods of history, we stick within a half hour radius.

As a pedestrain, that's roughly 2 miles in any direction or 12.5 square miles.

with a bicycle, which i ride at 18-20mph, that's 9-10 miles in each direction or 254 square miles.

In the summer of 2006, I semi-regularly commuted an hour each way to work by bicycle. By that standard I now can call over 1000 square miles as being within my range.

A car would increase my range even further, but a car requires insurance, gasoline, a ridiculous up-front purchase price, parking spaces, etc, etc...

A bicycle gives me 1000 square miles with no strings attached.

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