| Hours Sleeping | 6 | Time of Day | 6:00 AM |
| Body Weight | 7:30 AM - 180 | Body Fat | 9 |
| Distance | 14 flights | Power | |
| Time | Total – 58 min | Speed | |
| Total Ascent | Max |
| Breakfast | 4:30 AM – PowerBar, water 7:15 AM – cereal |
| Lunch | |
| Dinner | |
| Workout Food | water |
| Injuries | |
| Therapy | |
| Workout Type | |
| Weather | low 40s, dry, calm |
| Course | Howe Street stairs |
| Results | |
| Equipment | Brooks Defyance |
| Clothing | shorts, short sleeve active T, long sleeve active T |
Fatigue accumulates and then that accumulation reveals itself in strange ways.
I was totally blown after Sunday's workout so did nothing Monday. That felt great. Tuesday/yesterday I did a short spinning class and it felt pretty good so I figured I was back on track and was super psyched to hit the stairs and hit 'em hard today.
Ha!
Jim K and I both showed up promptly at 6 and headed down for our first walker – which felt fine. The next time up was a runner and I think it was honestly the slowest 'runner' I have ever done. I slowed down pronto, slowed again crossing Broadway and barely made it to the top. Holy crap were my legs moving slowly.
The next runner was only marginally better meaning not a whole hell of a lot.
I was determined to 'break through' this barrier and tried to go all out on the third runner. It resulted in another small improvement but I could finally feel my legs coming around. Sure enough, the fourth runner was what I would call normal which I guess is relatively fast.
After eight flights of this we switched to the up-two-down-one format for the runners and did two more. Since each of these runners is 1.5 flights we got in our 14 total exactly. These last two felt fine but I was still not screaming up by any means.
Obviously I am not well rested. And my leg speed sucks. Jim and I were commiserating that as you get older you pretty much need equal parts rest with your work. Prior to today I got in six hard days and two rest days. Even five and three would have been okay most likely.
One more week of this and I will be done with ALL types of running thankyouverymuch.
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