Oooggg!    W8D1

I was trying to cram this in last night to stay on schedule.  I had a client flying in to look at a property at 7:30, and was supposed to meet my daughter who is here from NYC for dinner at Bar Marmont on Sunset at 10:00 PM.   I knew I was going to be cutting it close, so I put my basic running gear on under my business clothes, showed the property and made a dash for the high school to make my run on the track.  Check the time, 8:45, if I hustle I will make it.  I am sitting in the parking lot rearranging my clothes and put the key in the door handle, all the while thinking that that is a dangerous thing to do.  I get changed, separate the key from the others and put them back in the door handle, lock it up, adjust my ear buds and start the warmup, about half way into the warmup, I realize I didn't bring any water and I debate back and forth about just pushing through.   I usually take a bottle and leave it standing in about lane 5 so that about 1/2 way through the workout I can sweep it up and take a couple of guzzles.

I know I will do better having it, so I veer off the track and head to the parking lot and reach in my pocket for the key and realize I have put the house key in my pocket and put the car key back in the door handle and locked it inside!    Doublecrap!!!!!    Sure enough, I'm locked out.   Luckily there is a basketball league playing so I am able to bum a cell phone and call AAA, and the guy shows up in 15 minutes, unlocks my car in 1 minute flat (wow! - a lever, a little airbagpump device and a long wand with a sticky knob on the end.)  I rush home change clothes and make a mad dash for Hollywood and am only 15 minutes late!   Had a great time, small pasta dish, one Manhattan and lots of Pellegrino and conversation; got to bed at 1 :30 AM.

7:00 comes very quickly and I drag out of bed and do w8D1 at our Central Park that has tons of baseball and soccer fields.  I feel tired and draggy and really struggle through the program.  I think my shadow was jogging faster than I was.....

W8D2 will be tomorrow night and I will be back on track and things should be fine..

W8D2...daughter still in town, love her....had to do today's routine at 4  PM, trails and soccer field jogging,  Wasn't pretty but I got it done.  It was hot!

Thanks for the encouragment Janet.  I will be jogging with the sweepers...those that are sweeping up the dead bodies.  I hope I can turn in a 36 minute 5K.

W9D1:  Nice cool night, got out to run and realized I had not downloaded the podcast for W9.  Used the W8 podcast and just added time and distance.  Warmed up and then jogged 3 1/4 miles in 35 minutes.  Went OK.  One more of these tomorrow night and then my date with Deena Kastor on Saturday morning.  I am really looking forward to it!

I picked up my bib for the Deena Kastor 5K yesterday, good old #5319...I am excited!    WOW, there are almost 6000 people participating in the various events they are running tomorrow.   This is an ambitious promoter, there is a 1 mile family run/walk, a 1 mile kids race, a 5 K, a 10 K , a 1/2 marathon trail run, and a 1/2 marathon street race!    There is going to be some good energy flowing tomorrow!

I drove the course, it is mostly flat, a couple of nice down hill stretches, and a couple of gentle hills, one right near the end where the athletes will blow by people like me!

My goal is to break 40 minutes, I have been doing it in around 36 on a nice flat track, but I think the transition to the asphalt and the hills might prolong my effort.  The weather forecast is suppossed to be cool and cloudy which is great!

Next time I login, I will be a C25K graduate and looking forward to the 5K I registered for in Seal Beach in April.  Go, dog, go!

Tonight was D3W1 of the Faster5K.com program, it was only 30 minutes of low impact cross training.  I chose to walk some hills in my neighborhood.  I live in north LA county, so hills around can be almost cliffs! 

The low impact recovery workout was welcome after the higher intensity workout yesterday which was six 1 minute runs at 85% effort with 1 minute of jogging intervals in between and one 5 minute run at 70% in the middle.  It was fun and definitely stressed my lungs and legs.  My hips and knees were a bit tender today, but not unbearable ...I think that was the idea!