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Skinner repeats w/Lewis

February 28, 2014 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Kind of a long day: worked 'til 1115, then went to get my allergy shot, then to the library to get a book I need for my July UR column. Then went to the coffee shop to work on the columns for my early March deadlines.

Met Lewis at the clinic at 315 to metabolic test him. I've been curious about where he's at, so we tested him. The results were...inconclusive. I think I biased it by telling him to stay relaxed and have breath control. The critical marker in our testing is ventilatory threshold - the point where the body automatically breathes much faster, but I think he voluntarily overrode it: there was no inflection point...thus, instead of finding a typical VT around +/- 160, there were two weak peaks: one at 145 and one at like 173 -- outrageously high.

Calculated at the latter, he's fat-burning "max aerobic" (~35%) at 140, but at 145? He's as bad/worse than me. I think it's somewhere in the middle. I was annoyed we didn't get a concrete value. But I think we agreed that he *would* be best off training under 140 for the time being.

After that, we headed to my apt to run Skinner repeats: we ran around the butte for a bit, before doing repeats of pow-hiking the steep west side, then "hard" running down the switches. The goal was (for me) to keep my HR under 135.

Wore the Suunto Ambit2 for the first time. The HR was like 11x for the warm-up, which might've been in the 8:xx pace, which was great. I split the uphill climbs, but otherwise mixed the downhill and the gradual uphill sections. We did 5, I think, then ran back to my place.

My L hamstrings was not very happy: I do think the SIJ stickiness created the pain, but clearly the hamstring is still dysfunctional and in need of work.

After the run, I rapidly cleaned up and met Chels and her friend Sara and husband Greg at Hop Valley. Sara is from Wayzata, MN (a 'burb of MPLS) and Greg is from Marshfield, WI; the former an hour west of my hometown, the latter 2.5 hours east. And, all three of us went to WI - Eau Claire for undergrad! I'm a 2001 grad, Greg a '02(?) and Sara an '04.

So we had quite a bit to talk about, though we didn't dwell on EC too much. We stood around a busy Hop Valley guzzling drinks before walking to Meiji for dinner. It had a :45 wait, so Sara *recommended* we go to the Blair Alley Arcade (the same one BGD went to in August 2012)!!! This is awesome, because Chels (in her stubborn, "Too sophisticated for school" attitude) previously totally shut down such a notion. But there we were, all four of us, skipping over to Blair! We got some (CHEAP) drink and played "mini-bowling", a shuffleboard-style bowling game. Ironically, Chels won a HEATED battle (164, me 162, Sara 161, Greg 14x). It was fun, and she admittedly had fun, too.

Then we went back to Meiji for food.

We all turned in pretty early, parting ways around 9:30. I felt a little "off" (like, tired), but it might've been from the allergy shot. They're getting more and more powerful.

Good day!

FYI - gonna start uploading my workouts to Strava soon...but gonna keep this going.