Sunday 041011

Justin ran a 2:32:02 in the heat at Rotterdam. Apparently hit the half in 73:44, but the last five were all north of six minute pace. Solid effort on a tough day.

Apparently Bill Lee, the guy I worked with last year in burro racing, is in IC after getting rolled under one of his own vehicles.

Earlier this year I was contemplating a trip to the Grand Canyon next weekend. I am not doing that but am interested in doing a long day. Kicking around doing a bunch of laps on Green - like five? (maybe four when I start thinking about it), starting before dawn, and hitting a variety of routes, with the benefit of having an aid station at the car. More to come on this.

Earlier this week I had thought I might do the local 5k here in town (Shorter 5k) but I scratched that after the double Green on Friday. A race day registration of 35 bucks really scared me off. Sheesh.

Last night I could feel that I pushed the edge a bit on Friday. I ought to have backed off the volume on Saturday, but KZ wanted to bike a bit more - so rather than go to hell for denying time with my daughter on the bike I did a bit more. I should have got on a bike myself.

But all that said, I felt pretty good this AM. The legs were a bit heavy, but I had a good night sleep. I decided I'd go check out the Kohl Elementary 5k course (KML file). I have been getting at this every couple of weeks. Kept things in tempo check this AM, it went pretty well (right around 6:10 average pace). 8 miles on the day.

Last two weeks have been a fail on the hour of alternative exercise. Decent week on whole, as I got my largest vertical day yet this year and a decent session of turnover on Tuesday. Miles were a bit low, but given that Monday was only 3 miles, I made up okay. All that said, the session on Green on Friday was revealing to me that I have quite a few chinks in the armor that I could be working on.

I am going to try to continue to strike this balance between turnover, a mountain once a week, and consistent mileage. I am making some ground with the turnover stuff. I can see that I have some hill work to do (but feel confident that will come) and the long run stuff (probably along with a mountain run), but will probably keep a really long run to something like once a month - mostly just goofing off.

PM -4 very easy miles to the library and back with the hobo pirate stabbers.

Week = 77 miles, 11.75 hours, 6680 vertical
April = 110 miles, 16.75 hours, 10040 vertical
2011 = 1032 miles, 153 hours, and 77.8 k vertical