August 20th, 2008
The BNSC group gathered at Torrey Woods Road once again to do some quality level 4 intervals. Patrick and I also had to do the 200m sprint and 1k time trial, since we both missed the day when the rest of the group tested these things.
I didn’t feel all that relaxed or in control of my poling in the sprint, but my time of :31 seconds was a small improvement over the :32 at the beginning of the season.
Times from the BNSC blog entry earlier in the summer:
——–1000M——- 200M
Ian——5:40———-32
My real improvement came in the 1k, where I absolutely crushed my previous 5:40. I posted a 4:56, 12 seconds back of Patrick’s 4:43. I think that’s a decent improvement. It was actually inside the pre-2008 course record time. The current course record is shown here. Evan D. was the one who had the blazing 4:38 a couple of weeks ago, a long way inside the previous record of 5+ minutes. My brother Andrew was also inside that. He had a 4:58. Of course, I do have lightning fast rollerskis and two weeks ago my brother and Evan were racing on a wet road, so that’s two strikes against me. Regardless of the immediate conditions, I did improve my uphill 1k by :44 seconds, which is ultimately what this training group intended everyone to do.
Tomorrow, what’s left of the group is planning to do an easy bike ride (something new) and then possibly go watch the cycling criterium near Pittsfield. And for Friday, there’s been talk of holding a water polo match(!?) somewhere. If that happens, it certainly be an exciting new activity for us. I imagine the sport is pretty sweet, but it’s probably quite hard. I’ll be pushing for it to happen though, because I always like trying new sports. Especially when they are covered on NBC at the Olympics.
Later this week I leave for vacation, and with doubtful wireless coverage I don’t think I’ll be able to post too many updates, if at all. I will be training though, so I might make up a single post full of what I do. I can say that it will be mostly running on the beach, swimming, and cycling. Three days after vacation ends, I go back to school…and five days after that, I start running practice for real. It seems like a ways away now, but I’m sure that that time will pass much quicker than I expect.
Ian
