Pyramid

I like to name my side stiches the way I name my blisters. I’d like to introduce you to Louie Left Stitch and Reba Right Stitch. Sally Shoulder Cramp was also in attendance this evening. Good times getting used to the heat. This being the first day of actual summer-like weather (miracle).

Overheard before class: Some chick called Shelly “that lady with the bushy hair”. Haha. As if. Umm….sweetie…that’s Shelly. SHELLY. I don’t know why, but that really tickled me.

Workout: Pyramid intervals. 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, 1 mile plus warm up and cool down of 1.4 miles each (total milage – 4.86, but see note about GPS watch below). For the Advance group, they had to do an extra 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile intervals. Eek. Sometimes it’s good to not be in the fast group.

Very good workout. According to my watch, we did the warmup at 8:15 pace. Nice one, Shelly. No idea about time for the 1/4 (of which the recovery felt exactly the same as the interval). 4:48 for the 1/2 mile. 10:37 for the mile (minus 1 minute off the time to account for the insane hill course).

Buckets of sweat. Swoob, swack, swass, swace, you name it.

I miss working so hard to keep breathing that I don’t close my mouth and drool on myself. Awesome.

Note about GPS watch. Coaches say the warmup we did tonight (school to 99th street) is 1.25 miles. However, my watch said 1.43 miles. Laurel says her dad’s watch freaks out in Central Park, too. Must run a measured area that I know well to compare the watch readings. Another question is the pace readings. Is it the pace Im running right at that moment or an average of my pace for all of the mileage I have run. Over about 1/8 mile length, I read my pace 3 times and it was all over the place (and before you ask – I was running steady). I also need to figure out how to program intervals into my watch. And also how to just start the timer to record time/mileage without setting up a workout first. Or rather…I need to get Eldar to figure out all of this stuff for me

P.S. Laurel – Saw Paula tonight. I would have given her the evil eye if I hadn’t been using all my physical resources to not have a heart attack after that damn hill. But good news – it’s officially summer in the city. And you know what that means!

And a $10 cab ride and 30 min train ride and 6 min car ride later I was home. Nite!