The Jury's Out

I was scheduled for Jury Duty today in Quincy.  But my better half is traveling for work this week and my smaller thirds are not.  My commitment to civic duty engaged in mortal combat with my distaste for being the person who has to explain to the judge why they can't be seated on a jury.  It lasted about six hours before I deferred until CX season.

Instead of spending the day in a warm, dry jury pool, I layered up, embrocated down and headed out the door.  And brought along a bug courtesy of a generous team mate.  I'm not sure about the choice of light rain, moderate winds and steady temps around fifty over bureaucratic comfort and the slightest chance of empanelment.  Nor am I sure about the wisdom of digitally recording my workouts and posting them online.  One might say that the jury is out.

Guardian satellites watching over me yielded some excellent data and some less than excellent data.  The little heart shaped loop on the far right represents a loop around the neighborhood trying to decide how bad the weather was.  The red line from 95 to Framingham is the hour I spent warming up along 135.  Most of 135 has enough paved shoulder to feel safe in the rain.  The loop next to Sherborn is the workout:  one test lap and three hard runs up Glen Street and easy back down Farm Street.  The rest of the red line is my warmdown.  It involved some very cold and uncooperative fingers.

On the upside, the HR data was much better than I normally get.  The GPS missed the start of one of my efforts, so I had to back out the HR, speed and splits.  My altimeter registered fifty percent more climbing than the GPS.  I thought atmospheric changes might have artificially boosted my climbing until I looked at the GPS elevation profile.  The four identical, concurrent laps I rode showed up as a vague rise and three hills, each one smaller than the one before.  I guess climbing data is a downside.

The big question is what to make of my warmup being the sixth fastest recorded segment along 135 but my all out effort coming in 44th on Glen Street.  I'm pretty clear on the reasons behind the rankings, but I'm a lot murkier on the wisdom.  I'll sleep on that for now.