Exercise:
8km (45 min, inc 6 times 4min fast)
5km (35 min), 400m swim (10 min Sea)
19km (1hr 50min)
Drinks:
cross training: Kronenberg,Killian Irish red ale, Isle of Jura single malt whiskey.
Specific training: L'Allée du Roy, Médoc, Grand Vin de Bordeaux, 2008. This was exceptional. I was not expecting such finesse from an inexpensive 2008 Bordeaux. If I see any more of this stuff I am going to grab up some more bottles and drink them right away.
Other wine: St. Daumary, Voila la Printemps, Pic St. Loup. This is an old faithfull of mine. It's too bad that I took it out to a social occasion and barely got a glass of it before it was drained by others.
My long run this week was done under 32 degree heat. I hugged the shade wherever I could and drank 1/2 a liter of water as I went. Nineteen km is the longest distance I have ever run and I discovered a problem doubtless known to many long distance runners. Where to run? I am lucky to have a 5 km path near my place but it is not so interesting as to merit going up and back more than once. I was obliged to do a bit of exploring. I found a park which is used for outdoor theatre and music festivals. Currently this park is doing something called "les nuits Tsiganes" which means there were quite a few caravans and circus tents but apart from the scattered security guard and several faux Greek sculptures in the woods there was no one around. When they closed their gates I had to find somewhere else to accumulate the rest of my kilometres. The next place I discovered was an abandoned, half overgrown, high school track. Certainly this was private property but it was a good find for me in spite of its lack of shade. In France it is illegal to have your shirt off, (with the exception of beaches). So, in defiance of at least two local laws I finished the remainder of my kms.
I don't know if it was the heat, my faster runs in the week or a slight lack of sleep but I was far more tired after just 5km than I was, at that stage, last week when I did a 14km long run.
I drank some organic, fair trade chocolate milk after my run and it tasted great without all that after taste of exploitation.
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Way to go Bud! Flout the law - especially arcane morality laws - in the name of comfort! So let me know how the chocolate milk experiment went (only in Europe would you find fair trade, organic chocolate milk - I think I can find the powdered form here actually, suppose I could just make my own). Mind you after that heat, probably no amount of chocolate milk could revive you.
ReplyDeleteYes I'm with you on the path thing - I have to drive to the park to find any kind of decent running path. Kind of defeats the purpose. And I really hate running in circles or doubling back during my run - I like to feel like I'm getting somewhere or seeing something new.