Park, Pool and Nearby Traffic
February 5th
I was able to run in the park that I have seen time and time again.. Everytime I am passing it from the Highway, and I look over to see how the park is set up, and who is taking advantage of the day. I fianlly had my day, and it turns out that this place is really nice for a quick run, if you are interested in that kind of activity.
Since I was new to the park, I was not sure what to expect, but I found the trail and was happy to see that the snow and ice were almost absent. The park is completely covered in snow, and it was fun to see some people out there enjoying the late afternoon winds with a huge kite! The other visitors were there to walk with their dogs, or a loved one.. and a few loners.
I had never run the trail before, and I wasn't sure where it would take me, and how deep some of the puddles might be. One of the people finishing up their walk told me that the trail was fine, and I should be fine with just running shoes. So I set out, past the first ice puddle that connected to the parking lot, and ran around the first turn. That is about the first puddle that I saw, and instead of slowing too much, I thought I could just navigate my way while running, and I ran right through part of slushy ice water, and I started thinking of how miserable the race conditions must have been this morning for some of my other friends that had choose to run them ( the Ottawa Half marathon, and the Ile Bizard 5k, 10k). It was really nothing to complain about compared to how I imagined the races.
The last puddle through the park was the longest one, and I thought about turning back instead of running through a 3 inch deep puddle and soaking both shoes with the ice water. So I tried to go around it into the park on the snow. However, that was much worse, and the slush would have gone into the tongue of my shoes and continued to drain for the rest of the loop. I was able to find the best solution.. The ice along the trail edge was still stong enough to hold my weight without me falling through. It ws thicker on one side than the other, so I would navigate my way along the ice bank each loop, and try and remember where to step.
The first loop was obviously my slowest with the brief stop, and detour into the snow, and each lap I found myself speeding up, and gliding better though different parts of the trail. I was impressed with each lap getting faster, and decided to try for four laps total. My fourth lap I was able to shave off nearly 20 seconds from my 3rd, and I finished the training run with a total time of 31.27. I still haven't measured the distance but it was really close to 4.1 miles from my experience of calculating distance.
So that's what it means to have a negative split.. Your second half of the run faster than the first. It felt good to get out there and do it! I will be back there in the near future, and work on getting the time down below 30 minutes in the following season!! Wish me luck!.. thanks
I was able to run in the park that I have seen time and time again.. Everytime I am passing it from the Highway, and I look over to see how the park is set up, and who is taking advantage of the day. I fianlly had my day, and it turns out that this place is really nice for a quick run, if you are interested in that kind of activity.
Since I was new to the park, I was not sure what to expect, but I found the trail and was happy to see that the snow and ice were almost absent. The park is completely covered in snow, and it was fun to see some people out there enjoying the late afternoon winds with a huge kite! The other visitors were there to walk with their dogs, or a loved one.. and a few loners.
I had never run the trail before, and I wasn't sure where it would take me, and how deep some of the puddles might be. One of the people finishing up their walk told me that the trail was fine, and I should be fine with just running shoes. So I set out, past the first ice puddle that connected to the parking lot, and ran around the first turn. That is about the first puddle that I saw, and instead of slowing too much, I thought I could just navigate my way while running, and I ran right through part of slushy ice water, and I started thinking of how miserable the race conditions must have been this morning for some of my other friends that had choose to run them ( the Ottawa Half marathon, and the Ile Bizard 5k, 10k). It was really nothing to complain about compared to how I imagined the races.
The last puddle through the park was the longest one, and I thought about turning back instead of running through a 3 inch deep puddle and soaking both shoes with the ice water. So I tried to go around it into the park on the snow. However, that was much worse, and the slush would have gone into the tongue of my shoes and continued to drain for the rest of the loop. I was able to find the best solution.. The ice along the trail edge was still stong enough to hold my weight without me falling through. It ws thicker on one side than the other, so I would navigate my way along the ice bank each loop, and try and remember where to step.
The first loop was obviously my slowest with the brief stop, and detour into the snow, and each lap I found myself speeding up, and gliding better though different parts of the trail. I was impressed with each lap getting faster, and decided to try for four laps total. My fourth lap I was able to shave off nearly 20 seconds from my 3rd, and I finished the training run with a total time of 31.27. I still haven't measured the distance but it was really close to 4.1 miles from my experience of calculating distance.
So that's what it means to have a negative split.. Your second half of the run faster than the first. It felt good to get out there and do it! I will be back there in the near future, and work on getting the time down below 30 minutes in the following season!! Wish me luck!.. thanks
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