I’m a fan of ultramarathoner Sage Canaday’s YouTube videos produced under his “VO2Max Productions” label. Until watching one of those videos, I had no idea that he had previously written a book. Even when he is recommending his own book, Sage acknowledges that the writing is slightly juvenile and unpolished[…]
Read More »Mileage: ~54; Elevation: ~4,500′
Monday: Rest day. I felt really positive about January overall and didn’t want to overextend myself, so I decided a rest day after a long weekend was the smart play.
Tuesday: 6.21 miles. Indian School TH hill workout. Ran a few repeats up the steep ~400M start of the Powerline trail, but my legs were feeling sluggish and I forgot my headlamp, so I didn’t push things too far.
Wednesday: 6.77 miles. My standard neighborhood recovery run loop. Almost every Wednesday I have an easy, recovery run planned and almost every time I feel like I’m running too fast. I need to do a better job of focusing on keeping it mellow on my easy days.
Read More »Mileage: ~49 miles; Elevation: ~3,800′
Monday: 2.19 miles. Another uphill walk on the treadmill.
Tuesday: 5.92 miles. I was planning to do a bit longer, but my attempt to break in some new shoes was not going well.
Wednesday: 6.10 miles. Standard neighborhood recovery run loop.
Read More »Mileage: ~32 miles; Elevation: ~3,600′
Monday: 3.67 miles. Crappy weather meant another uphill power-walk on the treadmill. Almost 1k vert.
Tuesday: 10 miles. 10x800M @ 5% incline.
Wednesday: 6.11 miles. Standard neighborhood loop for recovery run.
Read More »Mileage: ~49 miles; Elevation: ~3,600′
Monday: 2.16 miles. Just cranked out some uphill on the treadmill.
Tuesday: 8.14 miles. There was still some crappy winter weather, so I ran an 8x800M @ 6% incline on the treadmill.
Wednesday: 6.12 miles. Easy recovery run around my standard neighborhood loop.
Read More »Mileage: ~31; Elevation: ~2,000′
Monday: Planned rest day.
Tuesday: I again decided to rest. We had guests coming into town for New Year’s Eve and I decided that cleaning the house, cooking and drinking beer was a more enjoyable way to spend my NYE.
December was a great month for me in terms of mileage, elevation gain and time on my feet, so I wasn’t super concerned about a few days of rest to enjoy time with friends. My knee had been causing me intermittent pain the past few weeks so I had no reservations about a few days of rest.
Read More »Mileage: ~45; Elevation: ~7400′
Monday: 2 miles. With a busy evening ahead of me, I decided to just get in a brisk walk during my lunch break.
Tuesday: 8.15 miles starting at the Indian School TH. Over 1,000′ of elevation during this run, mainly from getting off trail and having to hike up and over a hill to get back on trail.
Wednesday: ~11 miles. For Christmas Day Megan and I went to hike on the La Luz Trail. The bottom half of the trail was relatively snow free, but nearing the top it became more snowy, slowing us down quite a bit. We rode the tram down, then ran/hiked the three miles back to the car in the dark.
Read More »mileage: ~40; elevation: ~3000′ Another week of trying to ease back into more and more mileage. Which is ironic, considering that the best my legs felt all week was on my long-ish run on Saturday of 14 miles. Throughout most of the week, my legs felt sluggish and slow. Saturday[…]
Read More »mileage: 35; elevation: ~3000′ All in all, a pretty typical “base-building” kind of week. I didn’t assign myself any particularly strenuous workouts this week, I just wanted to make sure to get in a lot of time on my feet. My Saturday long run was in the open space trails[…]
Read More »mileage: ~31; elevation: ~7500′ A pretty solid week of “easing back into it”-type training. My goal for the week was for everything to feel easy and like I was stopping before I was tired. I wanted to just rack up a good amount of time on my feet and not[…]
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