Tuesday, January 19, 2010

MARTHA OR SCOTT???

This will NOT be a political blog post but I'm pretty sure I know the country has one eye on the hellish carnage in Haiti and the other eye ball fixed on who will take the Massachusetts senate seat today. Am I right? You non Massachusetts residents will have to tell me if we've made the headlines in your town.


In other not so exciting news, I attempted a 4.5 mile road race this past weekend and if I could capture the experience in a screen print from my training peaks, I would, but I can't so here's a LINK if you really want to see where a heart rate should probably never go during an very early season TRAINING run.

Here are a few thoughts and lessons learned from this:

If my pace wasn't steady, my heart rate sure was. RED LINED even on the steep
down hill section. Hey, and I didn't even let it crash mid run. Kudos for me. (barf)

I am an idiot for signing up for a "training run" that had absolutely no flat sections except for the floor of the middle school girl's bathroom and the parking lot/finish line area where you actually STOP running.

I was trashed on Saturday after the race but was still in shock to really notice the amount.

I was trashed on Sunday (see above)

I was trashed on Monday (see above)

It's Tuesday and there is hope.

3 comments:

Jennifer Harrison said...

what senate seat race? HAHAHHAHA, the country is OBSESSED WITH IT!

You crack me about your training run/race. That'll teach ya, eh? Na, glad you enjoyed it!

goSonja said...

No TV in my house so I am pretty outa the loop on both. I do keep up a little via twitter. That HR graph is hilarious. I do these crazy snowshoe races here in Colorado that last 70 minutes and last time my avg HR was 181. I totally know what you mean. It's both funny and bad at the same time. Happy recuperating!

jessithompson said...

Way to lay it all out there... red line is surely barfy.