Training Log Archive: AliC

Lovely run- to the laguna, then up the path along it, to more natural little melt ponds and then snow, which I crossed, foudn another path, and kept going up!!!

Running around before/between intervals on the mountain!

4 min up to laguna
4 min up from laguna to lift base
30 s more up, becuase it was there
4 min up on down hill ski slope (some guys said something in spanish to me as I charged up, I'm guessing it was encouragement, or 'you're crazy')
3.30 around optical telescope towards the 30m
1 min up the final hill to 30m

Good session. Tough stuff, both becuase of the lack of oxygen and because the air is sooooo dry.

C • You're crazy. 2

Alright, so some was walking, but that was still working very hard as I was going up to the tippy top of Pico Veleta- was 550m climb from where the telescope is! Basically went straight up, not that there was necessarily a path where I went. Then came down on the road for a bit, before decideing to tubmle down the mountain following one of the lift lines back to the laguna.

Came upon some sheep that were being herded by a sheep dog. Got barked at, suppose being told not to interfere...

3 min down, 2 up on the way down for 30 min
then 3 min up, 1 min down on the way up for 25 min.

Wind about as horrible as yesterday, bum a bit sore from yesterday's intervals.

2 min push ups
2 min side plank
1 min supermen

Whew. Gusts up to 30m/s with average wind around 25 m/s. That's 67 and 55 mph in non-SI units... So I ran on the road, not on the ridge paths, else I would have had to go slow to not be blown off. Road is steeeeep!

8 x 30 second bursts with 3 min recovery in between. Hard stuff- esp. hard to get breath back afterwards being at 3000m!!

10 min abs, haven't done these in ages...

A bit of a putter around the mountain, over to the laguna and then up towards the top a bit- must go to the top one of these days! Bummer I have to carry a radio while running, but the telescope operator won't let me leave without it.