After the Kaiser half, discovered that somehow I had strained my right calf. So, took a few days off with the good ol' RICE therapy and decided to test it out on the following Saturday. We met at Los Gatos and did an 18 miler without too much trouble (at 10 min pace). There - the last long run out of the way.
The following 2 weeks had rain playing havoc with our running plans (though God knows we do need the rain in the Bay Area to alleviate the drought like conditions). Had to make do with a 9 mile run on the treadmill (instead of 13) - running on treadmill is really boring after running outside!
Followed that up with a 6x800 track session in pouring rain (at 3:40-3:45 per 800); wanted to do the Yasso (10x800 with jog) but again rain had the last laugh. Coach Raman proposed an interesting workout for the 6 miler on Feb 21 - 1 mile at 8:55 pace, 1 mile at 8:45, 1 mile at 8:35, 1 mile of sprints (run at 5K pace for 1 min folllowed by 1 min jog) followed by a 1 mile cool down.
Something about engaging the fast twitch fibers!!
Had a track session on Tuesday (4x400 at goal pace - 2:10 per 400) and a short easy run on Friday.
Plan to head out to Napa with the gang - Satish, Mona, and Senthil on Saturday afternoon to get to the expo/bib pick up. The weather forecast calls for rain on Sunday; I guess the rain has decided to follow me since Portland. Well, I hope that at least we don't have the hail and 40 mile headwinds that they had in 2001!
No major time goals as such; a new PR would be nice but it really depends on the weather. Supposed to be a fairly easy course - let's see what Sunday brings!
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