colder than a Moscow dip in January

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Push-ups	Pull-ups	Start time
23 Feb	To M. Theresa	39	25,25	17,15	22:12

            Saturday night.  My body was sore all over.  I wanted to give myself some time to heal, so I made zero sprints.  I didn’t even time the trek at the spots where I usually sprint.  A close observer will see that I did this run after 10 in the evening.  This was because the weather forecast called for rain beginning at midnight.  I wanted to get the run in so I wouldn’t get wet.

       

soccer ban

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pushups	Pull-ups	Long sprint downhill	4 flights	Start time
10 Feb	To WAT	45	25,25,25	17	59.69	20.11	7:14

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pushups	Pull-ups	4 flights	Start time
14 Feb	To M. Theresa	45	25,25	17,17	20.11	7:24

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pushups	Pull-ups	Long sprint uphill	Long sprint downhill	Start time
19 Feb	To M. Theresa	35	25,25	17,17	1:45.55	1:36.17	6:43

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pushups	Pull-ups	Long sprint downhill	4 flights	Start time
15 Feb	To M. Theresa	35	25,25	17,15	59.59	21.10	7:12

  

            So, on the 10^th, I ran to the location of the World Academy of Tirana.  This is place where I have begun a long-term substitute teaching job. It was located where I thought, but I got there via a different route.  All is well.

Failure!

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pull-ups	Long sprint uphill	Long sprint downhill	Start time
7 Feb	Kavaja to M. Teresa	35	15,15	1:17.20	59.80	7:49

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Classic Sprint in Park	Pull-ups	Long sprint downhill	Short Sprint downhill	4 flights	Start time
8 Feb	Kavaja to M. Teresa	45	53.60	15	1:00.69	41.25	21.58	7:18

            Saturday, I made the goal on the downhill sprint by 2-tenths of a second.  I forced it.  Several times during what seemed like the longest minute of the month, I consciously urged my legs and arms to add speed.

Super Bowl!!!

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pull-ups	Long sprint uphill	Long sprint downhill	4 flights	Start time
3 Feb	Kavaja to M. Teresa	32	15,15	1:18.49	59.88	20.57	9:30

            The sprint up the hill, record being 1:03 (a bit more than a minute), took 1:18.  I was clumping along, feeling quite uncomfortable.  BUT, after running around town to my usual spots, doing some pull-ups, and sprinting up and down the steps of the university near Mother Theresa Square, I came back to the spot and ran downhill the same stretch.  I made my goal of 1 minute by 12 one-hundredths of a second!  Happy times!!

Banana cookies

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Pull-ups	Long sprint downhill	Short sprint downhill	6 flights	Start time
1 Feb	Up Kavaja around town	30	16	1:01.66	41.21	33.06	8:52

Date	Place of run	Duration (min)	Push-ups	Pull-ups	Classic Park	6 flights	Start time
31-Jan	To park	61	25,25	15,15,15,5	55.36	35.56	7:37

            Yesterday, the last day of January, in the morning, I ran to retrieve something Maxim had forgotten from his mom’s house.  On the way, I did the ‘classic’ sprint in the park.  During the sprint, I genuinely felt like I was “pulling the (proverbial) plow.”  This phrase harkens back to my days playing high school baseball when we would accuse other players, especially those on the other team, of running like he was pulling a plow on the way to first base.