Training Log Archive: bbrooke

Event: Greenland Trail Races
 

Greenland Trail 25K race.

Perfect conditions -- partly cloudy, not too hot, not too cold, no wind, and no mud (despite all the rain we got late last week).

I felt good on the first loop -- especially cruising downhill the last three miles.

But I struggled with the gradual and then steep five-mile climb on the second loop -- and my pace slowed a lot. I walked the first minute of each mile for (I think) all of the uphill miles of this loop.

Despite my slower pace on the second loop, the results show that I only lost two positions overall.

The race was actually 15.8 - 15.9 miles (not 15.5) according to my Garmin and other results I can see in Strava, so the pace calculations in the results are not 100% accurate. My watch splits were:

Mile	Loop 1	Loop 2
1	0:09:52	0:10:03
2	0:09:33	0:10:53
3	0:09:54	0:10:19
4	0:10:06	0:11:32
5	0:10:27	0:11:21
6	0:09:29	0:09:48
7	0:09:00	0:09:27
8	0:09:05	0:08:52
Loop	1:17:26	1:22:15

My feet hurt a lot and it was hard to walk for about 10-15 minutes after I finished, but then I felt more or less fine (mildly sore / tired calves).

I need to work on doing longer, steeper hills.

Very fun overall -- especially the sweet potato pancakes I got on my way home.

C • Great job! 4

Easy four-mile run (it's still taper week...). I did a SLOW trip up the Tyler Ave hill with the LoCO group (they were doing hill repeats), headed over to Harper Lake, one lap around, back down the hill, one more SLOW trip up with a few from the group, and then home.

Heavy rain and cold temps -- too unpleasant for a bike ride or a run. Worked in my garage instead.

Community Park / Dutch Creek / Daughenbaugh.

* Ran a quarter-mile to warm up.

* 5K time trial -- 25:52 (8:47, 8:22, 7:51, 0:52) -- 30 seconds slower than last time. BUT, I spent all of today assuming I'd be able to take it easy for this workout, since I'm tapering for my trail race this weekend. No such luck -- Erin's instructions were to dial back just slightly...not completely. :-P (I guess I got a break by doing 5K instead of 10K like a few of the others...)

* Ran one mile to cool down -- there was a cold easterly wind carrying the nasty Greeley smell by the time I finished.

C • whats the Greeley smell? Ag... 7

Taper week...

Neighborhood walk.

MTB ride -- Coal Creek trail east to Lafayette, Rock Creek trail southwest to Broomfield, and then the US36 bikeway and miscellaneous bike paths back home.

It's nice to be able to do this many off-street miles, but the eastern segments were kinda industrial and non-scenic.