Courtside Celtics & Speed!

What does being courtside at the Celtics look like? Let me show you.

 Ray Allen for three!

 Oh hey Rondo, what's up buddy...

 Are they walking towards me? I think so!

 Nice pick- Go Rondo!

 Oh and then Big Baby inbounded the ball right in front of where I was sitting.  I could seriously touch him.  It was amazing.

So needless to say I feel pretty lucky.  Lucky that I have a friend named Stephanie who works for such an amazing company and is offered tickets this fabulous.

When Stephanie gets offered these elusive tickets it's usually very last second and although she's invited us before, we haven't been able to go.  Yesterday, she got offered the tickets early and invited us.  From 11:45am until (NO JOKE) 4:30pm, Dave snowblowed our driveway so we could get out. (Dave is a DIE-HARD Celtics fan btw.  Like he DVRs and watches every game, even blowouts!)  We ended up taking the train into the city around 5 and surprisingly, there weren't any delays.

But back to the game... we sat courtside, directly across from the Celtics bench.  No one infront of us but the court.

 

Pretty cool right?  The game ended up being a blow out and my favorite player, Paul Pierce led the team in points! Thank you Stephanie for taking us, it was such an amazing experience!!!

Needless to say, I didn't wake up to hit the gym before work today.  But, I did have time to go during lunch.  I decided to do the Speed Workout that I was originally going to do on Tuesday. It was a build-down workout:

1200, 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200 with 200 meters rest in between.  

I liked the sound of this workout for two reasons- it started with the hardest and finished with the easiest AND we only got 200 meter rest which I knew would make it REALLY challenging.

Again, 200s are pretty difficult to measure on a treadmill, but I've explained my trick here.

Speed Workout 1/13/10

1 mile warmup, 6.0mph, 1.0 incline, 10 minutes

1200 meters (.75), 7.2mph, 1.0 incline, 6:04

200 meter walk/jog (this is where I drank water and wrote down my spilts)

1000 meters (.50+.375), 7.3mph, 1.0 incline, 4:59 minutes

200 meter walk/jog 

800 meters (.50), 7.4-7.6mph, 1.0 incline, 3:58 minutes

200 meter walk/jog 

600 meters (.25+.375), 7.5-7.7mph, 1.0 incline, 2:52 minutes

200 meter walk/jog 

400 meters (.25), 7.7-8.0 mph, 1.0 incline, 1:49 minutes

200 meter walk/jog 

200 meter all out, 10.5 mph, 1.0 incline, 43 seconds

.50 mile cooldown (in a rush)

4.5 miles in 43:20

I've been getting a couple questions/comments on how slow I do the rest in between sets.  And here is my opinion: After I finish a distance, I set the treadmill for 3.0mph so I can easily put my feet on the sides and write down my splits.  This usually take about 100 meters or 1/4 of a .25 mile.  Then I get back on the treadmill and jog very slowly (anywhere between 5.0mph-6.0mph for me) until I get to the next set.  Another trick- a little before I hit the next distance to start the interval, I set my speed to where I want it to be during the interval.  It takes the treadmill a few seconds to adjust to the new speed so this adjusts it for me!  Make sense?

This was another great speed workout.  I really liked it- you guys should try it!  

Have you ever sat courtside at a game? Do you enjoy speed workouts?