Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Kansas is one of the very first teams to be playing today, and they're doing well right from the start, down 7-0 to West Virginia. I think Wyoming will be one of the last two teams to be playing today (it helps when you're playing a night game and two time zones west of California)--though technically, if you're going by East Coast time, the game actually starts tomorrow. But we will go by Mountain West time, so it starts very late today.

A bit more pleasant out today, at least when the sun was out (and not in.) Biked in the early afternoon, and it was fine enough for shorts, but I wore a medium weight jacket for the wind, which gradually picked up. And as the wind picked up, more clouds moved in. By the end of the ride, I was chilled enough so that some hot tea back at home really hit the spot.

Did some work, occasionally checking on how some of the Bottom 25 teams were doing, and then headed up to try to do some running. "Try" because by then the weather off to the west looked bad, and like it was closing in, and the winds were up more, and there was fog stretching across the top of the Range. I figured I could deal with some drizzle or light sprinkles, but if it was going to be rain with temps in the 30s, they would just have to find someone else to do the running up there today.

And there were some light sprinkles on the way up the canyon, but by the last third of the ascent, sprinkles had changed over to light snow, so good. From there you could see ahead that the further east you went, the cleared it was, so I continued and had a fine outing, with most of the time doing hill repeats on a section of gravel trail heading up to one of the lesser known climbing areas. I was by myself from start to finish--no surprise at all, given the weather.

Warnings are now out for winter weather conditions starting tomorrow afternoon and continuing through Monday. Awesome!