Slushy track ‘workout’
My friend Cliff (who I sometimes join for a lunchtime run at work) is training for the Cleveland Marathon, and his speed workouts are on Tuesday. Today he had planned to do 6×400 and do it on the track up the street from Philips. I thought ‘what the heck, I’ll join you!’ Boy were we in for a surprise. First of all - not ONLY was it sprinkling AND colder than I thought, but it was super windy. No worries, right? WRONG. After our mile jog to the high school we get to the track. It’s barely visible. It’s covered with a combination of snow, slush, ice, and an added bonus - Canadian Geese - and their poop. Nice.
If it doesn’t kill me it will make me stronger, right? So we start out for our first 400. I can barely run! It was so funny because there were bare spots where the track was visible, so I was zig-zagging back and forth to try to stay on the track parts. Sheesh. The first one took me almost 2 minutes! The second one was the same, and by the third one I was getting irritated. I ended up only doing 4 and calling it a day - all of them just shy of 2 minutes. Joe and Cliff did 5 because they are men and much tougher than me. (That was sarcasm.)
On a completely different note - I came across this when I was waiting for my eye exam on Friday - http://www.matteroftrust.org/
How cool is this!!??!! You can use human hair scraps to soak up oil spills! (I need to tell my friend Dawn who owns a salon to start donating her hair scraps to this place!!)
29* year old Akron native. Recently completed my MBA with a concentration in Sustainability. Passionate about innovative renewable energy technology and endurance sports.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Sounds like your track was way worse than the one we went to! We had a mostly clear track except for one side, so I had to run 300 one way 300 back. Those straight aways into the wind sucked!!! (Not to mention I have no cornering skills so doing a 180 every 300 was not ideal!) At least there wasn’t any goose crap!
Hey I still have my chopped pony tail because I’m a freak and never sent it to locks of love, maybe I can send it to soak up oil!
March 19th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Terrible day for speed work. Good on ya’ for trying to slog through it. I remember trying to do my track work in a torrential downpour last year, and that was no fun, but what you were dealing with was worse.
March 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am
My track workout was fine. Maybe you’ll have to come south to twinsburg on tues. mornings.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Good for you for getting out there anyway! That’s really neat about the hair. I am going to tell my salon too!
March 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Hey Amie,
It’s your old friend Christina Kuruhongsa (Baker, now). I looked you up on myspace and it linked me to solarsquirrel.
Glad to see you are still running. I struggle just to get my out of shape rump on the boring treadmill a couple times/week.
Drop me a line sometime…I would love to catch up with you.
cbaker90@woh.rr.com