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 […]
Mountain adventures
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 […]
I’m melting/Trees are terrifying
After our massive snow dump a few weeks ago, we are already well into spring meltdown mode. This is what the streets in my neighborhood looked like last weekend: The week before last I did all my running (a total of 14 miles) around town in these less-than-delightful conditions. Thankfully, last week was spring break, […]
Yellowstone City 30K recap
I ran the Yellowstone City 30K on September 23rd. This recap is really long without any intro blather, so I’m going to jump right in. The race was mainly an out-and-back, but the start and finish diverged slightly to begin and end at two different lodges in Paradise Valley (the area north of the north […]
‘Tis the season…(not THAT season)
Lest anyone be misled by the title: I am emphatically not one of those people who gets excited about Christmas the second the calendar says it’s fall. One month at a time, please. But since fall has officially made its appearance, we can get excited about that now. Fall means that ’tis the season…. For […]
The start-of-school whirlwind review, and Glacier
Even though I am done with the classwork for my PhD, it still takes a few weeks to adjust to a new school year. It’s partly just having a more structured schedule, but it’s also that the school year still manages to be busier than summer. I’m teaching 4 sections of a freshman lab this […]
My worst running mistake
Truthfully, more like my worst running mistakes. I set off on a long trail run, got semi-lost, and finally returned to the trailhead having run about 5 miles further than planned Before I go into detail, I want to clarify that at no point was I in actual danger (hi, Mom). Although I wasn’t prepared […]
I’m either running or disappointed: week in review
That is probably an over-dramatic title and not indicative of my entire week. I’m currently in a funk because we were supposed to be camping tonight. But…last night the air quality jumped from “moderate” to unhealthy and it hasn’t noticeably improved over the course of the day. I was prepared to tough it out because, […]
Trails, trails, trails: week in review
Good news: I was on or at a trail 5 days this week. Bad news: the smoke is back…and this time it’s from nearby fires, so I think we’re officially in smoke season. Monday Back to my usual steep hill training trail. For 2 days after a 5K, it felt surprisingly not bad. 2.9 miles. […]