April 22 & 23, Friday & Saturday

Feeding the monster….?

I had two very good days and work on Friday and Saturday.

Friday at the club I did 85 minutes of some serious work. That included 15 on the weights,  15 on the bike,  20 on the elliptical machine, 15 on the treadmill ( including a 10 minute mile) and 20 running in the pool with 8 x 100 to 200 stride bursts.  Love the complete body drain.

Saturday on the cinders I ran 3 miles which included  9 times 200 meter pickups all around 55 seconds. Remarkably my foot caused me very little discomfort today.  I think it has been responding to my aggressive efforts, icing, rolling and stretching, plus wearing the foot brace while sleeping.  And best of all running does not seem to be aggravating the foot. On another positive note my body seems to be recovering well from days of hard work. I hope that is an indication that my fitness is sound.

Having fun with Monsta concept.  It stems from an event that occurred with a runner a few years ago. His name was Karl Petrini. Karl was a fine young man who worked harder than just about anybody else. He was very loyal to me and believed everything I told him. Well, Karl made some remarkable progress in his senior year eventually braking 4:30 for the mile which, based on a 4:59 PR coming into the season, was a remarkable accomplishment. I became so exciting watching call run down some runners to win the distance medley for our guys at the Somerset County relays that I started yelling to our team on field, “Karl is a Monster!”   Well, with my Jersey City accent that comes out as “MONSTA”.  So the name stuck. Carl wrote to me a lovely letter shortly after he graduated thanking me for believing in him and for giving him a nickname that he still loves. I still have that letter, and it always brings a smile to my face.

Stats-

I-Mad =0

I-Mid = 2

a.m.HR =54BPM

SLEEP =10 HOURS

WEIGHT = #154

WORKOUT = ABOVE