February 2nd- February 8th

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

Monday:

10 AM: 13 miles w/ 600ft of vert averaging 7:15pace.  Larger loop of Sterns, Link Lake, Rock Creek and CTC. Had 75-90mins on the schedule to made it on the long side since work was pretty mellow this morning and I had the time to get out. Felt super chill which the heart rate shows but the paces were solid which surprised me after the race yesterday, I felt a little beat up today. Another check mark in the training plan.

3 PM:  45 mins in the garage gym.

Warmup: Airbike, Crossover, and Mobility

30min EMOM
40sec jump rope
40sec hanging knee raises
40sec devil presses w/ 35lbs
40sec Russian KB swings w/ 55lbs
40sec butterfly sit-ups
1 min rest

-- 20mins in the hot tub right afterwards.  Need to focus on the heat training this week and next just incase it is hot at Black Canyon 50K mid-month.

Tuesday:  

6:30AM:  10.4 miles averaging 7:20pace.  Easy cruise again around the CTC, Sterns, ect before work this morning. I saw I was in meetings all day so wanted to get the run off my plate today early. It was actually a really nice morning out there this morning, I was expecting to freeze my ass off but it was perfect.

2 PM:  They opened a stretching/meditation room at work a few weeks ago.  Finally got in there today and spent 30mins doing a mobility routine in the middle of the afternoon.  Going to do this more often since I get to lazy to do it in the evenings at home.

Wednesday:

9:30 AM:  11.7 miles w/ 500ft of vert averaging 6:40pace.  

Workout Wednesday... workout was as follows:

20 min warm up

3k at half marathon effort
jog 1k recovery
6x1k at 10k effort with 3 min rest between each

20 min cool down

Veronica and Taylor joined me for this one which I am thankful for. I was ready to bail after the 4th 1K but they kept me in the game. Started at my work and warmed up jogging over to the Louisville Sports Complex which has a 1K trail with a small hill (40ft each lap) around the baseball fields. Perfect for this workout. Probably ran the 3K and 1Ks a bit hot which is why I wanted to bail after the 4th one but got through it. Hard fucking workout.

4:45 PM:  50mins VASA Lift class w/ Paula. Today’s focus was pull-up plus a bunch of accessory work to support pull-ups. Loved it….

Thursday:  

2:30 PM:  11.2 miles w/ 500ft averaging 7:30pace.  Easy cruise with Don and Taylor from work doing my longer loop around Link Lake, Sterns over to the hospital and back. Super chill the first half of the run then we dropped the pace about 30secs a mile the second half to follow what Don had in his training plan of being on the high end of Z2 the second half of the run. Great to catch up!!!!

-- 20mins in the hot tub when I got home as well.

Friday:

-- Took the day off work due to having to much vacation time saved up so had to burn some more.  First world problems I guess.

10:30 AM:  14.1 miles w/ 1000ft of vert averaging 7:30pace.  Easy lap of the Dirty Bizmark running by feel. Basically added on the few mins that I cut yesterday onto today's run. My legs are shot today, not a certain area just in general. Some throbbing the last few miles of the run when I would stop to take a photo but once moving the throbbing went away. Just a lot of miles for me the past 6 weeks for this old man. ;o)... Looking forward to an easy hour tomorrow.

Headed up to Staunton State Park to help support the overnight runners for the Running Up For Air 24 hour race.  This got me my Hardrock volunteer hours that I needed for this summer but I would have done it anyways.  This is year number 5 in a row of volunteering up here for this race.  Love this race and what it stand for along with Peter and Suffer Better.

Saturday: 

9 AM:  7.5 miles averaging 7:20pace.  Jetted down the hill after volunteering all night at RUFA early this morning to make the group run with the Boulder Track Club from MEND. Just a mellow loop but they were cranking a little bit. Then we spent an hour afterwards going over strength training for runners with the MEND staff. Fun morning!!!  Time to rest and try to get some sleep... 

Sunday:  

8 AM: 13.6 miles w/ 2000ft of vert averaging 8:40pace.  Joined the Boulder Track Club but forgot I had water duty today so my run was kind of split 3 ways. Made it really hard to get in the 30mins of effort so that did not happen and just ended up being a 2 hour easy run on all trails. Probably good I did not do some effort due to my right knee acting up. Every time I would stop either for a photo, bathroom, drive to the next location, my right knee would lock up and was some what painful. Once I got going again it would loosen up and be fine until I stopped again. Little bit of soreness in it as I am sitting here typing this now. Thinking I am getting a little bit of touch of runners knee. May need to keep an eye on the over the next week leading into Black Canyon next week.

Total Weekly Numbers

Another solid week of being right around 80 miles, 7th week in a row.  That will change this week with a mini taper heading into Black Canyon.  My right knee is not to happy with me right now but it is better than yesterday so think it is just a small tweak which I am not sure how that happened.  Started in the middle of Sunday's trail run so thinking I must have twisted it when landing on a rock weird or something, nothing sticks out that may have happened.  Oh well, manage it and move on.  Excited for a long weekend in the desert next weekend, it is much needed.