November 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Happy Thanksgiving!

It is after midnight on November 23rd, Thanksgiving Day.  I was very surprised to get a notice from Facebook today that I had not posted in 5 days. I am amazed that so much time has passed and I have not posted. I have been pretty busy. So I checked back on my  desk calendar, where I write a quick note each day as to what my workout has been, or in some cases has not been. This is what I discovered.

On Saturday, November 18th I spent most of the day at Holmdel Park watching the Meet of Champions. It was beautiful day for running and the North girls won the first state championship since 1986. It was very exciting and I was thrilled for that Walsh boys and the North Hunterdon girls. As far as work is concerned I did about 4 hours of walking with intermittent jogging.  I was pretty exhausted when I got home and had another nice afternoon nap on the couch.

On Sunday, November 19th I spent most of the afternoon watching the Giants game, which they amazingly one. During the game I did continuous rehabilitation workout with stabilisation,  core, upper body and leg drills. It was a lot of work and I had a good feeling at the end of the workout.

On Monday, November 20th I went to our clubhouse for a 1-hour continuous work session. In the weight room I rode the bike for 14 minutes, ran on the treadmill for 15 minutes, and did a series of upper body. arm  leg work on the machines. Then I ran for 20 minutes in the deep end of the pool with five surge series of 70 -50- 25  leg pumps.  Another draining but satisfying workout. 

On Wednesday, November 21st ,which was earlier this evening, I went to the cinder track as the light was fading on this cloudy afternoon and ran three pretty steady miles including seven pickups of from 50 to 75 strides. That is 2 each lap after warm up. It was a chilly evening but good for running. I was happy with the outcome of this work out which took about 37 minutes.

Tuesday evening also included a very nice Awards dinner for the cross country team this season. All the members of this year’s team attended and a very good number of parents attended also. The future of cross country at Jackson Liberty is looking brighter. We have about  16 runners returning from this year’s team losing only four seniors.

Stats –

I-Mad and I-Mid have been very good over this period. I am determined proceed slowly and avoid injury.

Sleep = sporadic sleep sequence, some nights as much as 10 hours other nights only six, not very consistent

a.m.HR = 54 very consistent

Weight =  #154/156. Steady, but too high. I don’t believe I will get back to the lower 150s until I make a dramatic increase in mileage. That I expect to take some time and not hurry. So I expect to be in that middle to upper 150s for a while.

Good meeting!