Training log - Week ending 9/21/2025

This week was 55 miles of running and 18 "miles" of pool-running.

Both of this week's speed workouts were slower than I had hoped. On Tuesday I had to reduce the treadmill speed slightly from what I had held two weeks ago while on Friday tempo effort was about 8 minute pace when it had previously been faster.

At first I thought this was just lingering fatigue from last week's Covid shot or accumulated fatigue from another bump in mileage.  And then I decided to check my peak flow meter (device for measuring my asthma).  Yup, my asthma was flaring again.

Though I can't be sure of the cause of this flare, I have a hunch.  After reading about the many beneifts of creatine for post-menopausal women and the potential (mixed research results) benefits of creatine for people with Parkinson's, I decided to try it.  It's legal under USADA and very safe - as far as I could tell, the only "downside" was some extra pounds from water retention.  Since I get dehydrated pretty easily, this seemed like a plus.

So I ordered it (from an NSF-certified vendor so that I could be sure I was getting the right thing and nothing else) and started it Monday morning.  I had a good run on Monday, but then things started to slide from there, cumulating in a Friday tempo where I couldn't get my legs to move.

After realizing that my asthma was flaring, I decided to google "asthma and creatine." And of course pulled up results indicating that creatine could indeed worsen asthma.

Oops.  So now I'm off of the creatine.  We'll see how this week goes.

Dailies:

Monday: 9 miles (9:45) with 8 strides plus upperbody weights/core. Foam rolling in evening.

Tuesday: 9.5 miles on the treadmill, including a workout of 6x3:30 on/2:30 jog plus 4x30 seconds on/2:00 jog. The longer intervals were at 8.2-8.3 mph; the shorter intervals were 9.0 mph  All jogs at 6 mph.  Followed with leg strengthwork.  Deep tissue massage in evening.

Wednesday: 12 "miles" of pool-running in the morning.  Yoga and foam rolling in evening.

Thursday: 8.5 miles very easy (9:57) including 8x100m in 29 down to 26.  Foam rolling in evening.

Friday: 10 miles, including a 6400m tempo in 32:10 (8:16/8:02/7:58/7:54) followed by 4x100m in 28, 28, 27, 26 and 2x200m in 57 and 55.  Followed with PT exercises.  Foam rolling at night.

Saturday: 18 miles, mostly very easy but with a 60 second pick-up-the-pace every 9 minutes starting in the second hour.  Followed with leg strengthwork. Foam rolling in evening.

Sunday: upperbody weights/core and 6 "miles" of pool-running. Foam rolling in evening.