December 8th- December 14th

"Don't hope for a life without problems.  There's no such thing.  Instead, hope for a life of good problems." - Disappointment Panda

Monday:

--- Had thoughts of going out for 30mins but that passed quickly.... Need a damn day off after yesterday. Legs are shot today as expected.  Walking around like the Tin Man for the first 10-20 yards after standing up but at least things loosen up after that.  Spent the day catching up from being gone from work on Friday and that was about it.

Tuesday:  

--- Pretty much the same as yesterday.  Had thoughts of heading out for an easy shakeout but did not do it.  Decided for one more day of rest before slowly getting back to moving this week because my quads are still somewhat jello.  Flying out to Mexico tomorrow for work to visit a supplier's plant.  Have to be at the airport around 11am so will try again tomorrow morning before heading out.  

5 PM:  Meet Don at the Boulder Theater for "Inaccessible".  Of course we had dinner first on Pearl Street first.  Fun evening learning about the locked up Public Lands out there, it was especially interesting to hear them talk about the grid system in MT and how that locked up a bunch of lands in the Crazy Mountains.  

Wednesday:

8 AM:  6.3 miles averaging 7:45pace.  Easy loops around the open space by the house. Legs are still smashed from the weekend. Mostly the quads being sore and the outside of my left calf is not firing. First jog back after the marathon, nothing but up from here.  20mins in the hot tub right afterwards.

-- Flew out to Guadalajara Mexico this afternoon for work.  Heading there to check out a supplier in person with the hope that this will help bring the supplier around on the delivery and quality issues we have been seeing at work.  Sometimes an in person visit does wonders.  Will be a fast trip, flying there today, onsite tomorrow all day, and then flying home on Friday. 

Thursday:  

Spent all day touring a manufacturing plant in Guadalajara and being in meetings from 7:30am until 5pm.  No photos to share from the tour due to NDA reasons but afterwards we did go out to a really nice local Mexican restaurant where I was able to try out Beef Tongue for the first time.  It was actually pretty damn good.  Today was a very long day with very little slept last night because we did not get to the hotel until about 11PM.

Friday:

Today was another long ass travel day.  Left for the airport at 8am and did not pull up to the house until 10PM.  Lots of delays due to lack of air traffic controllers at DIA still.  Not a lot of sleep this week, think my longest night was maybe 5 hours last night which I do not do well with after a few days of doing that.  Anyways made it home in one piece.

Also while traveling today they finally got up all the photos from CIM last weekend.  They wanted $34 per photo or $80 each.  I am way to cheap for that so here are a few that I liked that I screenshotted. LOL.. not in any sort of order.  Also in the group shot below with the 4 of us, I was the slowest one in the group at 2:37 but I am also at least 20 years older than the next closest person so I feel okay with that.

Saturday: 

2 PM:  Walked 2 miles in 40mins.  Walk with Paula and Venus this afternoon after sleeping in until 9am which never happens for me.  Totally wiped out today from this week.  Never really got the chance to recover from the marathon last weekend and not it is hitting me hard.  Also picked up a stomach bug in Mexico and basically chained to the toilet most of the day.  I know how that happened too, my dumb ass used ice with my bottled water at the restaurant.  What a rookie move.... sigh.... 

Sunday:  

-- Nothing yet again today.  Still feeling like shit but much better than yesterday.  Still have the shits this morning but was better in the afternoon.  Hopefully this will be my last rest day on this so called recovery week and we can get back to it tomorrow which I know will hurt.

We headed over to Donnie's house at 4pm to celebrate his 50th.  Welcome to 50's buddy!!

Total Weekly Numbers

Not really anything to talk about here this week training wise but in full transparency here is how the week turned out.  One would think that I got in a lot of recovery but sleep was shit all week and stress was high at work so by the weekend I was trashed so I took the weekend off too.  Ready to start back slowly on Monday and get back into the routine and start doing off season strength training again.  That will be the main focus for the next 12ish weeks, gym time and getting ready for Black Canyon 50K in Feb.  Onwards and upwards!