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Hardesty Up&Down

August 1, 2014 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 92, humid - fucking hot!

Comments:
Worked 0.75 overtime again today, then went home and packed up for the *last long run*, pre-Waldo.

The idea was to replicate my 7-11-14 run: Hardesty + Mt June + Goodman. It's 21 miles and I did it in a baller 3:19, just three weeks ago. I like to repeat sessions like this to guage progress.

I felt pretty good in the AM, but I could feel the week's - and month's - fatigue as I rolled east to Hardesty. It was HOT: >90F and annoyingly humid.

The Lost Creek was barely running three weeks ago, which forced me to carry a jet pack for this run. I was fine with it, as it would be good to train with it on.

Did some stretching and warming-up, then I took off.

I kept the effort easy, but fretted a bit that I might be slow. And...I was.

I felt HEAVY. Again, not sore or trashed or burnt out, just TIRED and HEAVY. The heat did not help: this might've been the HOTTEST Hardesty ascent, ever. While it was shaded, the humidity was such that, by a mile in, my WS '13 belly T was DRENCHED.

I've obviously been very sensitive to over-doing it since WS '13. I think about that "last long run" of Camp and how maybe things would've been different, IF:

- I'd stopped at Cal 2
- I'd stopped at Foresthill
- I'd...not even RUN the damn thing!

So, after two miles, when I was a good two minutes slow from three weeks ago - as well as feeling a building soreness in my R achilles - I decided to summit, then pull the plug.

So I did. I ran efficiently and consistently up to the summit, focusing on form, filling the belly with breath, and using my hips and arms. But I still only ran a 68 - pretty abysmal, even with heat.

I sat up there, just enjoying the silence and solitude - feeling at peace and satisfied, not disappointed. And then, I had a VERY nice, fast descent: 38:40. Among my fastest ever.

Downside: I finished with some L leg soreness, which meant - at that faster descent speed - I wasn't being "strong" in the pelvis on that side. Collapsing again. Damn.

Finished up, then drove home.

Didn't do a whole lot after that: ate, cleaned up, and sat in my baking apartment, just reading.

KacR and I were going to chat, but that somehow fell through. It's weird: I find myself having to balance a couple factors:

1. Her propensity to people-please and - when she NEEDS something, or "self time" - how she tends to avoid, rather than confront. For example, on Thursday night we were going to chat. I texted her around 6ish...yet she didn't reply 'til like 930 because she had a presentation for work she was working on. She could've easily just texted back right away saying, "Sorry, I have to work on this", but instead I feel like it's easier for her to say nothing - thus avoiding confrontation or possible resistance from me. And I think this is residue from "Seth", who was constantly bullying her.

2. Her fear of "being controlled", or of moving too quickly. The tragic irony of love, of course, is that which attracts us (my assertiveness, leadership) also scares and repels us (being bossy, controlling, etc.).

Because of these things, I find myself having to figure out, "OK...is she avoiding because she doesn't want to disappoint or confront me, OR is what I'm doing too aggressive for her?"

Definitely worth discussing in the future...

In bed by ten.