Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ~ Randy Pausch
Mon 15 Feb: 00:30, 2.96 miles, ‘Hood loop night run
Tues 16 Feb: 00:41, 4.05 miles, Janet’s house surges
Wed 17 Feb: 1:39, 10.73 miles, Watson tempo
Really not sure how much “recovery” I had to do post-race as I felt fine immediately afterward (once I got rehydrated and some food in me) but training this week has progressed without incident. I took Sunday off then did a quick night run on Monday. Love running at night. It was quite chilly, however (~5°F) so it wasn’t really a run I wanted to extend in any way. Felt a bit fatigued at the start but as time went by I felt better and better.
Tuesday, I met with Janet and did a few surges and shot some video. We’re making a lot of micro-adjustments now as I seem to have done a pretty good job of evolving my stride to be more efficient and fluid. I still don’t make it look effortless but am getting there.
Yesterday, I headed down to Boulder early and warmed up around Boulder Reservoir. Just took it easy, didn’t worry about pace or anything but loosening up and getting warm. After a few surges, we started the tempo portion of the run along the streets north of Coot Lake. I was planning to roll 8s but felt so well I decided to just let it flow and ended up in the mid-to-low 7s for the 5-mile tempo. Cooled down and called it good. Which it was.
Working today then heading to the Butte with Pete tomorrow for a weekend of skiing. Looks like the conditions aren’t terrible there so I am looking forward to getting in a couple of fun days on the home turf. I am in terrible ski shape right now so we’ll be taking it pretty easy. Still skiing all the fun stuff but not raging all day like usual. Other than hoping A-Basin opens up hiking terrain on East Wall (mostly so I can log some high-altitude stair repeats), I am considering this season a bit of a wash. Happens… just hasn’t in a long, long time.
Tentatively putting the 24-hours of Moab back on the schedule as a team event with Sean. That should be fun. We’ll just do the 12-hour event and I’ll keep you posted about that being finalized.
~stubert.