For my birthday a while back my WAY-Cool wife got me a weekend at The Drivers Edge High Performance Driving Event down at the local road course race track, MotorSport Ranch. The really cool thing about this is you use your own car. It's basically a 2-day class on how to drive your own car to it's limits around a dedicated race course... how cool is that! Ever since I found out, I've been prepping my car for the event. I actually have to get a performance inspection done before my car will be allowed on the track... makes since, since I'll be pushing it pretty hard... I hope :-) I replaced the front brakes a couple weeks back. Day before yesterday I had new tires put on it. Today I flushed and replaced all the brake fluid with higher temp DOT 4 fluid. Angela was wonderful and helped me bleed the fluid through the lines. I also replaced the rear brakes today and tracked down (& hopefully fixed) a suspension squeak I had in the right-rear. I think I should be good for the inspection now... we'll see. I hope to get it done this week.
I didn't run this morning... Angela & I went after sunset. Today was long run day, so the goal was simply to finish. Firt time doing 3.5miles, and our plan was to do our 2mile course, have some water then do our 1.5miler. Things actually went well, and I'm proud of Angela! She stuck with it the entire time... we finished together!!! 37minutes even (10:34 mile).
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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Good times guys, I have wondered lately about mornings versus evenings. I read that you should train at the same time as the event. But you have more energy and are warmer later in the day. You also have not eaten earlier so you have less fuel to burn. What do you think? I like evenings.
I'm still up in the air regarding the two. I originally chose mornings for the exact reason you mention... that's when the race is. I have since found that I'm more likely to do it in the mornings. Problem is it makes me late to work since I try to eat something like a waffle, and then wait atleast 45min before heading out. Angela & I do a good 6-8 min of warmup before each run (run in place, jumping jacks, then stretch) so we're pretty warm before a run regardless of time. As mentioned in one of our earlier posts though, Angela will be switching to evenings permanently. I'll stick to mornings... mostly.
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