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I am so not a track runner and I think I was the first person to run a track mile in this challenge! It is a bit of an abomination. Did 1 mile of recovery effort after an adventure on the North Country Half course yesterday, and as a warm-up to sport climbing at Lindseth with my friend Aimee. I love running + climbing!
I was short on steps, so I volunteered to hang out in Tburg after my daughter’s softball game while waiting to grab my son from a basketball carpool. As I was walking, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a shorter Challenge Course nearby?” as I wasn’t up for 8+ miles on the BDT. I’m glad I finally shook the cobwebs and remembered the Sweet 1600. I hit the track for two miles of walking.
Kind of seemed like everything was against me this afternoon: I over-ate, under-hydrated, my feet got soaked on the way to the horse track, the track was in rough shape after the winter and not being groomed yet, the backstretch was uphill and against the wind, and I wanted to go sub-7 but ended up with a 7:00.4…sometimes you just can’t win, but then there are baby horses to make everything better!
I had 8x100m strides at the end of my run this morning so decided to do them around the track to log my first Sweet 16 of the season. I will admit I stretched my strides out to a bit more than 100m each, especially that last one . A wet chilly morning for May.
I had a concert in Boston last night, and despite being hungover and in physical pain from the mosh pit (pretty sure I was the oldest non-chaperone there) I sucked it up and ran to MIT’s track for a remote Challenge mile. One walker, but otherwise had the place to myself! It was super windy on the backstretch, but I didn’t vom afterwards, so I’d call that a success!
I ran two sweet 1600s this morning and on the first one I entertained myself (somewhat) by switching lanes each time around. Then I wondered just how good my GPS is, so on the way back from my run around Beebe lake I had a second go and this time moved across 2 lanes each loop, and it’s pretty good!:
However, I hadn’t cottoned on to the fact that changing lanes would mean I’d actually run further than 1600… So next time I’ll stop faffing about and stick to one lane!
I had 3x1 mile intervals on my workout schedule for today so decided to do them around the track so I could get some 1600 credits. Of course this meant I ran faster than the prescribed half-marathon pace on my plan . That is what the challenge does for you! It was very wet and cold, but honestly this is much better running weather for me than hot, humid and sunny. But I guess my garden veggie starters are spending yet another day indoors.
I’m not much of a track runner and had never logged a Sweet 1600 outside of Tompkins County. While in Mystic, CT, for a wedding I made the most of it and ran a mile on two different tracks in one run while taking a trail route to reach the tracks.
I originally was just going to run the trails at Haley Farm State Park until the Strava realtime map showed not just one, not two, but three tracks just outside the park. First I ran four laps at Robert E. Fitch Senior High School in Groton (Connecticut). Next I jogged downhill to the nearby Groton Middle School track, which turned out to be gated and locked, so I passed on that one. I guess three in one run was too much to ask.
The Fitch HS track looks a lot like Lansing High’s back home.
A half mile further downhill was a third track at Sutton Park. This one looks like it was once a school track that has since been decommissioned. It’s now paved over with old blacktop, complete with grass growing up through the intermittent cracks. I ran four laps and my watch measured each as exactly 0.25 miles so I’m deeming it Sweet 1600-worthy.
First run of the challenge for me, and it’s not even in NY State. This beautiful track is located in Neenah, Wisconsin. I only had the time to put one mile in, after I ran 6 miles this morning:) I was planning on running around a 5:30 mile, however I was shocked to see I ran a 5:07, I literally had no idea I was one second off my PR. Hopefully my next run will actually be in NY. Happy Memorial Day!
Towards the end of my run 11 mile run this morning I did 8x100m strides around the Cornell track so figured I might as well get some challenge credit. Lots of construction going on.
I also tried out my newly modified shoes, a desperate attempt to address my persistent black toenail problem. So far, so good. I only had to stop to remove one piece of gravel while on the Dryden Rail Trail. However, I may think twice about wearing these particular shoes on my next muddy trail run…!
I was heading out for an ordinary lunch time run when I noticed that the Cornell track gate was open! Took the opportunity to log some track miles and complete the Sweet 1600!
I ran my first serious Sweet 1600 of this year’s Challenge today at the Charlie McMullen Mile in Rochester. My main goal was to finish under 4:50, but I felt really fit going into it so I thought I might even be able to run a PR (my current PR is 4:45).
I ended up running 4:45 and finishing 16th in a stacked field. I’m really happy with that.
. A wet chilly morning for May.
. That is what the challenge does for you! It was very wet and cold, but honestly this is much better running weather for me than hot, humid and sunny. But I guess my garden veggie starters are spending yet another day indoors.
This beautiful track is located in Neenah, Wisconsin. I only had the time to put one mile in, after I ran 6 miles this morning:) I was planning on running around a 5:30 mile, however I was shocked to see I ran a 5:07, I literally had no idea I was one second off my PR. Hopefully my next run will actually be in NY. Happy Memorial Day!
