final tune up

We are heading up to Wildflower tomorrow. Well, almost. Actually we are driving up to Oxnard and staying in a hotel, then driving the rest of the way early Thursday morning. Our plan is to arrive by 10am or so, hoping that it’s early enough to get a decent camping spot. Two years ago, the last time we did this, we arrived in the late afternoon on Thursday and it seemed that we were on the tail end of the big traffic jam into the campground. We’ll see. 

There’s a bunch of packing to do tomorrow…our goal is to be on the road by 2 or 3. I’m sure we’ll sit in LA traffic, but there is really no way around that since we want the girls to get at least a 1/2 day of pre-school because they are missing Thursday as it is. I figure we pay way too much for pre-school as it is (a grand a month), I hate it when they miss a day, it feels like we’re throwing money out the door. Anyways, I digress.

Tonight I did a pre-race tune up workout, my regular Tuesday night track group at Carlsbad HS. There was a nice crowd tonight…much better than in December and January when we were lucky to have 6 people. On to the workout…

1 mile easy jog (8 min pace)

11 x 400 on 60s rest (should have been 12 but my calf was tight after 11 and I didn’t want to push it so close to a race) 

77 (164) 
74 (173) 
75 (173) 
74 (175) 
74 (178) 
73 (177) 
73 (179) 
74 (179) 
72 (185) 
73 (182) 
75 (178) 

1/2 mile cooldown, easy roughly 8 or 8:30 pace.

I mistakenly had auto lap on my Garmin turned off and wasn’t hitting the lap button, so I don’t have avg HR per internal. But I was able to capture max HR from the graph and it’s in parentheses. Not sure how valuable that data is other than to tell that the 72 on #9 was pretty much all out. 

I doubt I’ll get to posting tomorrow night and I won’t have Internet access over the weekend, so the next post will be a race report. Hopefully, it will be a good one!

Thanks for reading.

~ by JP on April 29, 2008.