Training Log Archive: Spike

I ran M21 at the NTOA a-meet, but I didn't finish. When I was about 100 meters from 16 (maybe 3/4 of the way through the course), I decided I wasn't having any fun. So, I stopped and jogged/walked to the finish. I wasn't having fun because the terrain was, as Peggy might say, "icky;" the course setter didn't do us many favors; and I struggled to read the map and interpret the vegetation (they'd invented some green shading that represented areas of cedar forest that didn't really slow you down at all -- nicer than much of the white -- but I had trouble changing the way my brain reads green. When I see dark green on the map, I think fight). Well, not much of a performance...

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Leaving for Texas in an hour or so.

A little time on the trainer. I'm spending the evening doing laundry and packing for the Texas A-meet.

I ran at PNS on the way home from work. I ran without a headlamp. My plan was to run on the trails until it became too dark. I actually ran about 5 minutes longer than I should have because it was getting really hard to see the last few minutes. I hit the 1000 feet of climb split in 42:23. That's a PR. I hit 1000 feet of climb in something like 44:30 at Wyandotte a couple of weeks ago. The Wyandotte PR was a better performance because that run began with 6-7 minutes before I hit a hill. At PNS I hit the hill about 90 seconds from leaving the car.

We flew home yesterday. No training today. I'm tired and could use some sleep.

Skiing at the Indian Creek area. Mary and I went together and were out about two hours. I broke trail most of the time and though the pace was slow, the effort was decent because of how hard it can be to push through the snow. We climbed 160 feet.

Another ski session just beginning just before dawn. Mary and I have a routine at Yellowstone. I go for a ski just before the sun comes up. She sleeps late. It gives me a chance to wear myself out a bit and the dawn light is amazing to see (but not so amazing that Mary would pick it over sleeping an extra hour).

I began at the upper terraces area and went a bit of the way on the backcountry trail that goes to the Golden Gate area. I took a pretty good fall on an icy downhill on the way back. I climbed a total of 640 feet.

Skiing with Mary on the Lost Lake trail. We were out almost two hours. Lots of blowing snow. Coming back was much quicker because we had the wind at our back and most of the trail was down hill. We climbed 400 feet.

Third ski session of the day. Mary and I skied on the Barronett trail (out about three hours). We met three rangers on the trail. One of them said he'd "seen a Moose on skis." Mary and I both found that amusing. The trail is really beautiful and snow was falling steadily throught the trip -- really great. Tired by the end. We climbed 440 feet.