Normally I would take the week off, or at least mostly off, after a long race like I ran last Saturday. But with the Ridge Run quickly approaching, I had to get back to training while still letting my body recover. So I stuck with short easy runs during the week, and fortunately felt ready […]
Adventures and misadventures: weekly rundown
It was a fairly eventful two weeks, but this will be a fairly brief rundown. I’m going with more photos than words today. 6/24-6/30 Got a relatively large blister on a relatively short trail run. No idea how/why that happened. Finally made it to the top of Baldy… …but probably got some mild heat exhaustion […]
Following the plan: weekly rundown
I finally finalized and posted my Ridge Run training plan…eh, “plan” last week. So far (y’know, a whole week) I’ve followed it pretty exactly. Go me. Tuesday 3.3 miles with a wee bit of speedwork (1-2-3-2-1 min ladder w/ equal rest). I’m not focusing on speed for obvious reasons, but speedwork is good for hills […]
Bridger Ridge Run training
I had a reasonable 12-week plan mapped out for this race, but then stuff happened, so now I’m scrambling to fit the most important bits of training into the next 8 weeks. The most important bits, for me, are 1) it’s steep and technical; 2) it will probably take me around 8 hours to finish, […]
Back in action: weekly rundown
The muscle spasm that knocked me out of commission last week hung around longer than I would’ve liked, but I think it is finally 100% gone. And I finally made it over 20 miles for the week, but I put strength training on pause as I was afraid it would re-aggravate the muscle. Monday 2.3 […]
Sleeping is dangerous: weekly rundown
So everything was going great until Wednesday, when I woke up with my neck/upper back feeling stiff and sore. Not really painful, just feeling like I slept on it wrong. Then I rolled over in bed that night and something seized up and made everything painful. I took ibuprofen and some topical pain stuff and […]
New views: weekly rundown
The weather is suddenly acting like summer up here, so I’m trying to adjust to the heat. (Heat = in the 70s. Acclimate = I should wake up earlier. It’s all relative.) Other than that, I had a mostly good running week. Tuesday 1 neighborhood mile with Kara plus 2 by myself. Wednesday Two laps […]
Chasing the snow line: weekly rundown
This week I more or less started Ridge Run training. The race is 11 weeks from Saturday, and I need all those weeks. I have a (very) rough outline for training, which I’m planning to post Wednesday hopefully. Here’s what “week 0” looked like. Monday 3.1 road miles with Kara. Tuesday Lower body strength workout. […]
speeding up/slowing down/summer race news
I’d like to say I haven’t posted in several weeks because the end of the semester was busy. Which it was, of course, but the more proximate cause was actually insomnia. I normally have a couple weeks of insomnia every spring (because spring is the worst), but this year a couple weeks stretched into a […]
Weekly run down: 3/25-31
No creative title. No creative intro. Just jumping right into the recap this week. Monday Rest day. Tuesday 3 mile run, ending at the “gym” for strength training. It had been almost 3 weeks since the last time I was in the gym, so I scaled back my workout to avoid getting too sore…still pretty […]