Summer has ended; MAF test

COMMUTE 5 miles to track

RUN 3.7 miles in about 38 mins, after subtracting walk.

I miss the line spacing feature of this blogger.

Up early on September 1st (!!) to run on the track. I was going to have a "swim" type plan in mind but didn't mentally finish that thought. We came up with it on the fly -- run a lap or so, walk a bit, and drill a straight section. BE came up with this, I didn't understand it, and I think only now I really get the pattern of 400 run, 100 walk, 100 drill, repeat. Now I see how we ended up starting our intervals in half-track gaps.

After a 2 or so lap walk, we started running and the first mile is what I'm calling my MAF result: 1 mile on a track at 10:47 m/m, ave HR 132 and ave cad 164 or so. LOW cadence. Kinda high HR given that my calculations were 125-130. (125-135 if I'm being overly generous). 

I need to review previous MAF tags....hmm Dec 18, 2017 I did a 1 mile run, under a new moon, but it wasn't a true mile it was 1 min on/off intervals. That's my only MAF tag? Ugh. 

My New Russian a Day email said Summer is Over. There's no way to put it in Russian here. Leto Zakonchilas.  I can't seem to remember it for more than 5 mins, my mind is rock skipping again. Summer isn't over quite yet, for me it's not until the 3rd weekend in Sept when all the major races are finished. That's not gonna happen this year! 

But I spend the last 30-60 mins working out the details for my Labor Day weekend Virtual St Louis Triathlon. It has become important to me, it will be 2 years since I was hospitalized and although I did race last year this will be the first triathlon since then. The A2 Fuller pool reservation process is a mess, gotta be online at 6am and gotta have two reservations - one for each of us. Would it be easier to swim in the river? It's only 300 yards, or 0.170455 miles (thanks, Google). 3 minutes one way, 3 minutes back, roughly, ignoring the current!

The A2 YMCA pool is closed, as are all other area pools. If LA doesn't seem up to the triathlon this weekend I'll get some of the open time at my YMCA pool and get the whole thing done Friday morning. 

I feel like there's more I'm supposed to say....oh yeah! FULL MOON tonight, at 12:22am. Nice numbers!

I didn't mention yet, that I talked to LA over the weekend about doing the H100. To my surprise, he didn't discourage it. In fact, he was happy that I mentioned it to him. He still surprises me. I'm thinking to register this weekend after the triathlon?