Training Log Archive: Spike

I watched the women's relay before going for a trail run at Wyandotte.

I came across a guy dressed in camoflage and carrying a shotgun. Not sure what he was doing, but he waved and said hello.

I did plenty of climb and felt really good. That's always fun. The nice cool weather certainly helped. I hope my climbing legs feel so good next weekend at W.P.

My split for the first 1000 feet of climb was 39:50. The 2nd 1000 feet of climb was 40:47. I climbed a total of 2260 feet.

A short easy session on the trainer. You don't want to train too hard or too much the day before Tio Mila.

I arrived at Wyandotte a bit late. Near the park I drove in to a serious hail storm. I turned around and drove out of the hail, parked the car and waited for the storm to pass (read a bit of Freakonomics while waiting).

Once the hail passed, I went to the park. Classic midwest spring weather today. In the hour I ran I experienced: calm; strong wind; calm; rain; strong wind; hail; calm; and finally sun. Most of that was nice for running. The hail was a bit worrying, fortunately it never got big (bigger than an M&M, but smaller than a peanut M&M).

I climbed 1140 feet.

Feeling a bit sleepy today...spent some time on the trainer.

I jogged the deer trails up and down the hill at Wyandotte. I felt heavy for the first ten minutes, then I felt good. I climbed 1260 feet.

SLOC A-meet at Rockwoods (M21 again).

I had a complete melt-down. The warmth (plus yesterdays effort?) really hit me. I carried Gookinaid and drank water at the stops, but the second half of the course felt like a death march. I felt like I was fighting to keep moving. Unfortunately, I was thinking about moving instead of reading the map and I made a bunch of booms.

The course was interesting and not excessively hilly (good job with the course setting).

Way, way behind. Michael Eglin ran 82 minutes.

This was a race for me to forget.