Woooohhhhaaaa...
California totally wimped me out...
I am back in Germany, being whipped by the weather. It's nice and sunny, but it's also COLD.
Highs of -2C (28F, go metric already!) are way too cold! It means I have to run on the treadmill,
and exclusively have to climb/boulder in the gym. This is really unfortunate, since I dug out a climbing guide to the area where I used to live and there's plenty of nice stuff to be climbed.
Too bad I wasn't into climbing as much, when I still lived here! Well, it's a reason to come back in spring/summer :-)
Despite the cold here I am looking forward to get back to the Sierras after the snowfall last week.
Hopefully it lasts longer than last year!
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Plans for 2008
Here's a compilation of things I'd like to do in 2008:
Running
Backpacking through the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne is on the list as well as the crazy idea Lesley came up with: R2R2R: Rim-to-Rim-to Rim in the Grand Canyon, preferably in under 24 hours...
Getting a road bike and practice for a triathlon would be fun too!
Well, I'd also like to eat in every restaurant on Castro in MV :-)
Running
run Kaiser Permanente 1/2 marathonrun a 10k (signed up! Sep. 12)run San Jose Rock 'n' Roll 1/2full marathon late in the year
- Braille Book
EB of Middle Cathedral- EB of El Cap
Sons/Awahnee Buttress/Serenity- South Face of Washington Coloumn
- RNW of Half Dome
- Royal Arches - Crest Jewel
Regular on Higher Spire
West Crack on Daff- Blown Away
- Seconds to Darkness
Regular on Fairview- Aqua Knobby
Shagadellic- West Ridge of Conness
- Phobos
- Deimos
- East Buttress of Whitney
- East Face of Whitney
- Mountaineers Route
- Crimson Chrysalis
- Epinephrine
- More J-Tree stuff
- Mt. Shasta
- Matterhorn Peak
- Mt. Lyell & Mt. Maclure
- Mt. Hood
Backpacking through the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne is on the list as well as the crazy idea Lesley came up with: R2R2R: Rim-to-Rim-to Rim in the Grand Canyon, preferably in under 24 hours...
Getting a road bike and practice for a triathlon would be fun too!
Well, I'd also like to eat in every restaurant on Castro in MV :-)
Pinnacles
The hiatus ending weekend continued on Sunday with a climbing trip to the Pinnacles with Ben.
We left the Bay Area around 7 and parked the car at the trailhead at 8:45am. In the car we had decided to climb at the Monolith, in the area around the reservoir and on Discovery wall.
Our first goal was the Monolith. Ben started up the Direct route on the East Face. It's an easy route, where the interesting part are the first moves towards the first bolt, since one has to step off a boulder on to the wall and face immediate exposure...What didn't help was that the rock was still really cold, so that our hands started to hurt after a short while.
After that we swung leads on the Regular route on the Monolith. The temps had increased, so it was a very nice climb. After rapelling off we packed up our gear and hiked over to the reservoir, where I led the Central route on the First Sister. A fun, easy route to awesome views...Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera on this one, otherwise I would have gotten an amazing shot of Ben eating an apple while following up the climb :-)
We continues exploring the area by heading to Gertie's Pinnacle (Yes! The new guide book by Brad Young pays off!). There we did three routes...First Ben led the 10a, before I led the 5.7 and the 5.8. Those climbs gave me some confidence, and I hope that my 'lead head' gets better!
To end the day we headed over to the Discovery Wall, where Ben led Wet Kiss.
It was an awesome day, where we climbed seven new (for us) routes.
We left the Bay Area around 7 and parked the car at the trailhead at 8:45am. In the car we had decided to climb at the Monolith, in the area around the reservoir and on Discovery wall.
Our first goal was the Monolith. Ben started up the Direct route on the East Face. It's an easy route, where the interesting part are the first moves towards the first bolt, since one has to step off a boulder on to the wall and face immediate exposure...What didn't help was that the rock was still really cold, so that our hands started to hurt after a short while.
After that we swung leads on the Regular route on the Monolith. The temps had increased, so it was a very nice climb. After rapelling off we packed up our gear and hiked over to the reservoir, where I led the Central route on the First Sister. A fun, easy route to awesome views...Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera on this one, otherwise I would have gotten an amazing shot of Ben eating an apple while following up the climb :-)
We continues exploring the area by heading to Gertie's Pinnacle (Yes! The new guide book by Brad Young pays off!). There we did three routes...First Ben led the 10a, before I led the 5.7 and the 5.8. Those climbs gave me some confidence, and I hope that my 'lead head' gets better!
To end the day we headed over to the Discovery Wall, where Ben led Wet Kiss.
It was an awesome day, where we climbed seven new (for us) routes.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
End of the hiatus
This weekend my hiatus of two weeks after the 1/2 marathon ended!
During the last couple of weeks I had to take care of a lot of different stuff, so that my physical activities were reduced to bouldering at the gym twice. Taking a "break" felt actually pretty good...Getting out on Friday felt even better :-)
Friday afternoon I took my mountain bike up to Monte Bello Open Space Preserve for an hour long ride. I have to check the stats of the ride... I can't even remember which trails I took.
Since this was the first time on my bike since mid-September, I felt a little rusty. That didn't keep me from hitting the climbing gym later that evening. Despite being tired from the ride I had a good couple of hours climbing with Dan. I am making progress on the 5.11c... only one hang this time.
Saturday afternoon I went for the first run after Las Vegas... And, Dang! Did it feel good. Only then did I realize how much I missed running. But also here the break was helpful. I ran approx. 5 miles on the SCT in just under 40 minutes. It would be great if I could keep that up for the 1/2 in San Francisco in February!
During the last couple of weeks I had to take care of a lot of different stuff, so that my physical activities were reduced to bouldering at the gym twice. Taking a "break" felt actually pretty good...Getting out on Friday felt even better :-)
Friday afternoon I took my mountain bike up to Monte Bello Open Space Preserve for an hour long ride. I have to check the stats of the ride... I can't even remember which trails I took.
Since this was the first time on my bike since mid-September, I felt a little rusty. That didn't keep me from hitting the climbing gym later that evening. Despite being tired from the ride I had a good couple of hours climbing with Dan. I am making progress on the 5.11c... only one hang this time.
Saturday afternoon I went for the first run after Las Vegas... And, Dang! Did it feel good. Only then did I realize how much I missed running. But also here the break was helpful. I ran approx. 5 miles on the SCT in just under 40 minutes. It would be great if I could keep that up for the 1/2 in San Francisco in February!
Thursday, December 6, 2007
PRs
Having finished my first race in over ten years, and having added a new distance to my repertoire, I think I need to keep track of my PRs.
So here we go:
100m: 11,22s (May '96)
200m: 22, 44s (Oct '96)
400m: 51, 86s
1500m: 4:55min (Jun '96)
10km: 45:22 (Nov '09)
1/2 marathon: 1:44,45h (Oct '08)
marathon: 3:48,40 (Dec '09)
So here we go:
100m: 11,22s (May '96)
200m: 22, 44s (Oct '96)
400m: 51, 86s
1500m: 4:55min (Jun '96)
10km: 45:22 (Nov '09)
1/2 marathon: 1:44,45h (Oct '08)
marathon: 3:48,40 (Dec '09)
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Las Vegas 1/2 Marathon
Wow! I did not expect that a race could touch me that much as my first half marathon did...
Crossing the finish line was quite exciting! But let's start at the beginning:
The start of the race was at 6:07am. Horrible!!! I usually run in the evenings and do not do well in the mornings...and 6am is not even a morning, it's the middle of the night, since it meant I would have to get up at 4:15. Now that is not that unusual, taking into account that I've done that on plenty of climbing trips. But still, this was something different!
Surprisingly enough, getting up was not that hard at all...The anticipation of my first race in over ten years definitely helped :-)
After having a banana and a coffee we headed to the lobby to find our way to the starting line, which we did not scout before...not that it would have been a problem, following about 2000 other runners...It was quite interesting to see the mixture of people in the hotels at 5am. On the one hand the runners anxious to get to the race, on the other hand the Vegas party/gambling folks heading back to their rooms. The vibes form the runners were incredible though...Everyone was psyched, looking forward to a fun event.
We made it to the starting line at about 5:45, just in time for the start of the women's elite group...We had to hover around for another 20 minutes before we were sent of as well...
Then the race itself: My plan was to start out easy, since my legs were not that happy with me on my last training run, when I started out pretty hard, and of course I had never run more than 10k...Well, starting easy was no problem at all, since it was so crowded, that it was pretty hard to go fast :-)
At mile two the field had spread out enough that I could find my own rhythm without having to think about other runners too much.
The best part of the race was definitely between miles 5 and 8, were I had a hard time getting the smile off my face. Everything was perfect...The tunes the shuffle function of my ipod threw at me, the sunrise, the run, the people cheering from the sidewalk...everything was flowing!
Then I ran past a mile marker, and a few minutes later I had forgotten if it was mile 9 or 10...
That was a little weird...of course it was mile 9...Anyway, I still felt well...until mile 12. Up to now I had the feeling that I was passing more people than people were passing me...but at mile 12 it hit me...I felt as if I was going backwards...My left calf and my right hamstring were tightening up, I was getting hot, and I just wanted it to be over...and soon enough it was over...
crossing the finish line I got the chills! An amazing feeling... To top it off, I had achieved my original goal of going below 2 hours, despite not having run too much in the last weeks...
Walking out of the finishing zone towards the hotel runners were handed all kinds of foods, which I happily munched on...really good!
Can't wait for the next race! Probably another 1/2 in SF in February...
Crossing the finish line was quite exciting! But let's start at the beginning:
The start of the race was at 6:07am. Horrible!!! I usually run in the evenings and do not do well in the mornings...and 6am is not even a morning, it's the middle of the night, since it meant I would have to get up at 4:15. Now that is not that unusual, taking into account that I've done that on plenty of climbing trips. But still, this was something different!
Surprisingly enough, getting up was not that hard at all...The anticipation of my first race in over ten years definitely helped :-)
After having a banana and a coffee we headed to the lobby to find our way to the starting line, which we did not scout before...not that it would have been a problem, following about 2000 other runners...It was quite interesting to see the mixture of people in the hotels at 5am. On the one hand the runners anxious to get to the race, on the other hand the Vegas party/gambling folks heading back to their rooms. The vibes form the runners were incredible though...Everyone was psyched, looking forward to a fun event.
We made it to the starting line at about 5:45, just in time for the start of the women's elite group...We had to hover around for another 20 minutes before we were sent of as well...
Then the race itself: My plan was to start out easy, since my legs were not that happy with me on my last training run, when I started out pretty hard, and of course I had never run more than 10k...Well, starting easy was no problem at all, since it was so crowded, that it was pretty hard to go fast :-)
At mile two the field had spread out enough that I could find my own rhythm without having to think about other runners too much.
The best part of the race was definitely between miles 5 and 8, were I had a hard time getting the smile off my face. Everything was perfect...The tunes the shuffle function of my ipod threw at me, the sunrise, the run, the people cheering from the sidewalk...everything was flowing!
Then I ran past a mile marker, and a few minutes later I had forgotten if it was mile 9 or 10...
That was a little weird...of course it was mile 9...Anyway, I still felt well...until mile 12. Up to now I had the feeling that I was passing more people than people were passing me...but at mile 12 it hit me...I felt as if I was going backwards...My left calf and my right hamstring were tightening up, I was getting hot, and I just wanted it to be over...and soon enough it was over...
crossing the finish line I got the chills! An amazing feeling... To top it off, I had achieved my original goal of going below 2 hours, despite not having run too much in the last weeks...
Walking out of the finishing zone towards the hotel runners were handed all kinds of foods, which I happily munched on...really good!
Can't wait for the next race! Probably another 1/2 in SF in February...
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Red Rock Canyon
What is the thing with me and Las Vegas?
The last time I was here, in February, it snowed in Red Rock Canyon, so that my climbing trip was cut short. This time around I wake up Friday morning after arriving the previous night, look out the window and see a downpour! On top of that it was freezing cold...not the best perspectives for the race on Sunday.
After spending most, actually all of Friday, in the hotel (earning $10 for a survey of NBC trailers, and $125 in dining coupons for listening to a timeshare sales guy for an hour) Lesley and I headed out for a hike to Red Rock Canyon on Saturday.
The weather was gorgeous, pretty windy, but sunny. We did the Calico Tank trail. A moderate out-and-back trail of approximately 2.5 miles. It was just the right distance to get our legs moving, but not tiring us out before the half marathon the next day.
The path led from the parking lot through a wash to a narrow canyon. We followed the canyon to a pool of pretty fridgid looking water. Continuing past the pool we reached a nice vista point overlooking the plains all the way back to the Strip. It's quite amazing how remote the canyon feels although Las Vegas is a mere 30 minutes away.
The goodie package for suffering through the timeshare sales pitch also included tickets to the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay hotel. Seeing all those fish, turtles, corrals, etc. made me want to go diving again... I haven't been since the Advanced Open Water certification class last winter...Need to go! Anyone up for it?
The last time I was here, in February, it snowed in Red Rock Canyon, so that my climbing trip was cut short. This time around I wake up Friday morning after arriving the previous night, look out the window and see a downpour! On top of that it was freezing cold...not the best perspectives for the race on Sunday.
After spending most, actually all of Friday, in the hotel (earning $10 for a survey of NBC trailers, and $125 in dining coupons for listening to a timeshare sales guy for an hour) Lesley and I headed out for a hike to Red Rock Canyon on Saturday.
The weather was gorgeous, pretty windy, but sunny. We did the Calico Tank trail. A moderate out-and-back trail of approximately 2.5 miles. It was just the right distance to get our legs moving, but not tiring us out before the half marathon the next day.
The path led from the parking lot through a wash to a narrow canyon. We followed the canyon to a pool of pretty fridgid looking water. Continuing past the pool we reached a nice vista point overlooking the plains all the way back to the Strip. It's quite amazing how remote the canyon feels although Las Vegas is a mere 30 minutes away.The goodie package for suffering through the timeshare sales pitch also included tickets to the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay hotel. Seeing all those fish, turtles, corrals, etc. made me want to go diving again... I haven't been since the Advanced Open Water certification class last winter...Need to go! Anyone up for it?
Saturday, November 24, 2007
J-Tree '07
I had been looking forward to this trip for quite a while...
Good weather, good company, good rocks, breath taking night skies, and tons of sleep...
Just what I needed after the last couple of stressful months...
I left the Bay Area last Sunday around 3pm after picking up Emily and Paul. The original plan was to leave at 2:30, but it took a little longer to stuff all the camping and climbing gear plus the food for three people into my Celica :-) We managed it though!
We arrived at the group campsite at Sheep Pass just after 11:30pm. Although I brought a tent this time around I didn't bother putting it up, given the temperatures in the 60's. Setting up camp was pretty quick, I was tucked in my sleeping bag by midnight.
The next morning we met up with Sam and headed over to the Lost Horse area. Sam led Dung Fu, Overseer and Feltoneon Physics which I followed. I led White Lighting being followed by Sam. Contend with climbing four pitches we returned to the campsite around sunset. After dinner and some chatting with the rest of the gang it was back to the sleeping back.
Tuesday I climbed with Ian in the Hidden Valley campground area. We started at Toe Jam, which I led, Ian followed and Emily TR'd. Next was Buissionier(?)...Ian led, I followed. The descent was quite interesting... The rappel sling mentioned in the guidebook seemed pretty nasty to get to, as did the 'walk-off'. We decided to look around for some other rappel anchors, which we found on the top of the formation. It ended up being a quite interesting rappel, since I couldn't see the ends of the rope from the top due to the overhang over which I would have to go. Well I had tied knots in the ends, so I knew it would be safe. Clearing the overhang I found myself free hanging pretty far away from the wall, where I spotted another anchor...Wondering if that was the actual anchor, which would provide to reach the ground I tried to reach for it...
Well...there is something as conservation of momentum, I started spinning and had nowhere to reach to stop. I still couldn't spot the ends of the rope, but there was a big ledge about 40 feet below, so I continued to rap... Once on the ledge I could see the ropes touch the ground...That was it...Quite the exciting rappel, stretching my 70m rope...
After this adrenaline pumping intermezzo we went over to Overhang Bypass, where I led the first pitch and Ian finished the second pitch.
After another four pitch day it was back to camp...
The next day Sam and I climbed 'Walk on the wild side', which also had an exciting descent. This time around we decided to walk off, which involved some interesting route finding and some nice down climbing sections. It was a fun adventure though.
We ended up at DQ Wall, after checking out Echo Rock, which was super crowded. On DQ we did Mr. Misty Kiss and Frozen Cone... both were more like face climbs than cracks...but it was nice to have the crack for protection. :-)
Thursday morning we headed back to the Bay Area, since I had come down with a pain in my right ear during the night...I guess I should have used that tent after all...Well, it was an awesome trip no matter what.
Good weather, good company, good rocks, breath taking night skies, and tons of sleep...
Just what I needed after the last couple of stressful months...
I left the Bay Area last Sunday around 3pm after picking up Emily and Paul. The original plan was to leave at 2:30, but it took a little longer to stuff all the camping and climbing gear plus the food for three people into my Celica :-) We managed it though!
We arrived at the group campsite at Sheep Pass just after 11:30pm. Although I brought a tent this time around I didn't bother putting it up, given the temperatures in the 60's. Setting up camp was pretty quick, I was tucked in my sleeping bag by midnight.
The next morning we met up with Sam and headed over to the Lost Horse area. Sam led Dung Fu, Overseer and Feltoneon Physics which I followed. I led White Lighting being followed by Sam. Contend with climbing four pitches we returned to the campsite around sunset. After dinner and some chatting with the rest of the gang it was back to the sleeping back.
Tuesday I climbed with Ian in the Hidden Valley campground area. We started at Toe Jam, which I led, Ian followed and Emily TR'd. Next was Buissionier(?)...Ian led, I followed. The descent was quite interesting... The rappel sling mentioned in the guidebook seemed pretty nasty to get to, as did the 'walk-off'. We decided to look around for some other rappel anchors, which we found on the top of the formation. It ended up being a quite interesting rappel, since I couldn't see the ends of the rope from the top due to the overhang over which I would have to go. Well I had tied knots in the ends, so I knew it would be safe. Clearing the overhang I found myself free hanging pretty far away from the wall, where I spotted another anchor...Wondering if that was the actual anchor, which would provide to reach the ground I tried to reach for it...
Well...there is something as conservation of momentum, I started spinning and had nowhere to reach to stop. I still couldn't spot the ends of the rope, but there was a big ledge about 40 feet below, so I continued to rap... Once on the ledge I could see the ropes touch the ground...That was it...Quite the exciting rappel, stretching my 70m rope...
After this adrenaline pumping intermezzo we went over to Overhang Bypass, where I led the first pitch and Ian finished the second pitch.
After another four pitch day it was back to camp...
The next day Sam and I climbed 'Walk on the wild side', which also had an exciting descent. This time around we decided to walk off, which involved some interesting route finding and some nice down climbing sections. It was a fun adventure though.
We ended up at DQ Wall, after checking out Echo Rock, which was super crowded. On DQ we did Mr. Misty Kiss and Frozen Cone... both were more like face climbs than cracks...but it was nice to have the crack for protection. :-)
Thursday morning we headed back to the Bay Area, since I had come down with a pain in my right ear during the night...I guess I should have used that tent after all...Well, it was an awesome trip no matter what.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
J-Tree inventory
Just coming back from Joshua Tree I sense a need to write down all the climbs I did down there.
This was my thrid trip and I already forgot which climbs I did two years ago...
So here's my J-Tree inventory:
2005
This was my thrid trip and I already forgot which climbs I did two years ago...
So here's my J-Tree inventory:
2005
- Mike's Books
- Bat Crack
- Lazy Day
- Nurn's Romp
- The Exorcist
- Gem
- Colorado Crack
- Beck's Bear
- Eff Eight
- Bambi meets Godzilla
- Mental Physics
- Dazed & Confused
- Life's a bitch and then you marry one
- Marital Sin
- Touch and Go
- Planet X
- Planet Y
- Sail Away
- Overseer
- Dung Fu
- White Lighting
- Feltoneon Physics
- Toe Jam
- Buissionier
- Overhang Bypass
- Walk on the wilde side
- Mr. Misty Kiss
- Frozen Cone
Sunday, November 18, 2007
a little more optimistic....
After this mornings run I am a little more optimistic about the LV 1/2 again.
The 10 km in 58 minutes felt nice and easy, happily chatting pretty much all along the way.
It was a very different feeling from my last two runs. Still I am contemplating to sign up for an other 1/2 marathon in SF in the beginning of February. But that might interfere with the skiing season :-)
Now I will get packed up to head to Joshua Tree for the next week...
Can't wait to get to the desert!
The 10 km in 58 minutes felt nice and easy, happily chatting pretty much all along the way.
It was a very different feeling from my last two runs. Still I am contemplating to sign up for an other 1/2 marathon in SF in the beginning of February. But that might interfere with the skiing season :-)
Now I will get packed up to head to Joshua Tree for the next week...
Can't wait to get to the desert!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Countries visited
Despite the blogs name there has not been much adventure here. And it was locally pretty confined to the trail close to my house and the climbing gym. But, hey, I have been out there...
Courtesy of world66.com: A map of all the countries I have visited so far...
I hope to color way more of this map in red in the not too far future!
South America (Peru, Chile, Argentina) and Asia (Japan, Thailand, Nepal) are high on the list.
To stay a little more local, here are the US states I visited:
High on the To-Go-List here: Hawaii, Alaska, Wyoming. Also I definitely need to go back to
Utah...skiing, climbing, mountain biking...seems to be a good playground!
Courtesy of world66.com: A map of all the countries I have visited so far...
I hope to color way more of this map in red in the not too far future!
South America (Peru, Chile, Argentina) and Asia (Japan, Thailand, Nepal) are high on the list.
To stay a little more local, here are the US states I visited:
High on the To-Go-List here: Hawaii, Alaska, Wyoming. Also I definitely need to go back to
Utah...skiing, climbing, mountain biking...seems to be a good playground!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Thirteen
That's the number of climbs I did at PG last night.
I climbed with Dan, and we spent two hours in the gym.
It was quite nice, especially since I hadn't climbed inside much lately and the first climb felt really awkward. After a few other routes I got back in the groove and climbed an 11b clean.
I finished of the evening by doing laps on the two 5.9 cracks, which felt really good!
Let's go to Joshua Tree next week!
I climbed with Dan, and we spent two hours in the gym.
It was quite nice, especially since I hadn't climbed inside much lately and the first climb felt really awkward. After a few other routes I got back in the groove and climbed an 11b clean.
I finished of the evening by doing laps on the two 5.9 cracks, which felt really good!
Let's go to Joshua Tree next week!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Torture
Todays 5 mile run was torture...
Although I ran about 3.5 hours after having lunch I had the constant feeling of having to vomit.
Also my feet have to get used to my new running shoes.
I hope it will be better Thursday!
Tomorrow it will be gym climbing and yoga...
Although I ran about 3.5 hours after having lunch I had the constant feeling of having to vomit.
Also my feet have to get used to my new running shoes.
I hope it will be better Thursday!
Tomorrow it will be gym climbing and yoga...
Monday, November 12, 2007
Anchors
30% Chance of rain for Saturday and 80% for Sunday, the weather forecast for Yosemite Valley did not look to good by the end of last week. Despite those dull perspectives we decided to pull of the scheduled Anchors class in the Valley. After arriving at Church Bowl around 10:30 Saturday morning I headed out to the Five Open Books area, where I climbed 'The Caverns' with Brian and Grit. It was the first time climbing on granite for both of them, and especially Grit had a hard time getting used to the cracks and the sustained liebacking. I definitely could feel with her, since it reminded me of my first times climbing in Yosemite. But never the less we made good time on the climb and got back to the car way before dark.
During the night the rain set in, so that there was no way we could do any climbing on Sunday.
We spent the morning placing gear at Swan Slabs instead.
On an other note: I did not feel my hamstring during the whole weekend. A good sign!
I did a 4.5 mile run on Friday, where I had to walk a few stretches because my left thigh was tightening up, but no problems since...
Going for another run tomorrow...
During the night the rain set in, so that there was no way we could do any climbing on Sunday.
We spent the morning placing gear at Swan Slabs instead.
On an other note: I did not feel my hamstring during the whole weekend. A good sign!
I did a 4.5 mile run on Friday, where I had to walk a few stretches because my left thigh was tightening up, but no problems since...
Going for another run tomorrow...
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Not too bad...
1.5 km...that's the distance I ran today.
Without any pain in my hamstring...I think I can get back on track...I'll bring in a 4 mile run tomorrow, namely a Campus Loop, and then we'll go from there next week.
Talking of distances I really like this tool provided by USA Track & Field:
http://www.usatf.org/routes/map/. It allows you to track your route on Google Maps and gives you the distance and the elevation profile.
I won't be running this coming weekend, since I am headed to Yosemite with a group of SAC people...It has been a while since I climbed outside, so it will be fun!
Without any pain in my hamstring...I think I can get back on track...I'll bring in a 4 mile run tomorrow, namely a Campus Loop, and then we'll go from there next week.
Talking of distances I really like this tool provided by USA Track & Field:
http://www.usatf.org/routes/map/. It allows you to track your route on Google Maps and gives you the distance and the elevation profile.
I won't be running this coming weekend, since I am headed to Yosemite with a group of SAC people...It has been a while since I climbed outside, so it will be fun!
Sunday, November 4, 2007
DAAAANG!
Ok...There goes the plan of the two hour half marathon...
I pulled my left hamstring yesterday. It happened playing touch football...going for a deep pass.
Bummer! I hope I'll be able to actually do the race though, but my training will be way off anyway. In my experience I should be able to jog very lightly within a few days. I also stashed up on Mg-pills and some protein supplements to accelerate the recovery...
I pulled my left hamstring yesterday. It happened playing touch football...going for a deep pass.
Bummer! I hope I'll be able to actually do the race though, but my training will be way off anyway. In my experience I should be able to jog very lightly within a few days. I also stashed up on Mg-pills and some protein supplements to accelerate the recovery...
Thursday, November 1, 2007
I did it!
Well, I actually did it a while ago...
I signed up for a race, which was on my to do list for a long time.
I am a little concious about racing after having been in track & field for 14 years until a few years ago (OK, almost a decade ago). But I signed up for the Las Vegas Half Marathon. Quite untypical,
since I used to say: "Everyone who runs more than 400m is crazy!" I guess perspectives change :-)
Las Vegas it is...I am left with one month to prepare. Up to now I have been trying to run two to three times per week, one 10k, one 5k and one two hour run. Needless to say that this plan did not quite work out. I am still confident though that I can hit my goal of a two hour half marathon.
I signed up for a race, which was on my to do list for a long time.
I am a little concious about racing after having been in track & field for 14 years until a few years ago (OK, almost a decade ago). But I signed up for the Las Vegas Half Marathon. Quite untypical,
since I used to say: "Everyone who runs more than 400m is crazy!" I guess perspectives change :-)
Las Vegas it is...I am left with one month to prepare. Up to now I have been trying to run two to three times per week, one 10k, one 5k and one two hour run. Needless to say that this plan did not quite work out. I am still confident though that I can hit my goal of a two hour half marathon.
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