Bit of a hodge podge week ... 50 mile week.
50.3 of running on the week.
Mon - 11 miles, with a good chuck with LF to start the day
Tue - 7 miles
Wed - 7 miles at the EOD, including 6 x "State Hill" - which was about 70-75 second for me. I could feel this on the legs post
Thu - 7.1 miles, AM start of the day with GW
Fri - 4 miles, started with TZ and then got on calls for the rest. Work killed me on this one .
Sat - 8 miles, out on Interlocken Ditch and back. I was draggin' on this one.
Sun - 6 miles, over Flag, down Gregory and other messing around
A lighter week of sorts ...
Monday - 7 miles with GW
Tuesday - off. Got a knee shot.
Wednesday - 7 miles with GW
Thursday - 7.1 miles
Friday - 7.5 miles with GW
Saturday - 7 miles, including 8 by Stonehenge Hills.
Sunday - decided I might as well do Green given the low mileage week. As I started I noticed JV and BW in the meadow and so I was given the gift of the round trip with them. 5.5 miles.
60 mile week.
January - finished with 258 miles according to Strava. Only 9000 something feet of climb though - reflecting my not heading to the hills of Boulder because of snow and trips to LVS and the Bay.
Mon - travel to BUR, 4
Tue - AM with LF on Bay Trail. 10.2 miles.
Wed - AM with LF but NK and LK also joined for a few in the middle. 11.1 miles. Bay Trail of course.
Thu - AM with LF on the Bay Trail - 10 miles.
Fri - Back to CO. 6 miles in the afternoon. Stiff.
Sat - 9.4 miles, out to Interlocken and back. Shaking the trip.
Sun - 9.1 miles. Started with TZ for the first two. Heavy legged.
Mon - 7 miles
Tue - 9.1 miles, a bunch with LF
Wed - AM with the Coyote Crew: 6 on 3:30, 75 seconds rest. 8 miles.
Thu - 15 miles! A handful with LF and then over to meet GW for a bunch.
Fri - late in the day and a cold front blew in. Kept it short - 4 miles.
Sat - 8.7 miles with GW on most.
Sun - 8.2 miles out and back on the Interlocken Ditch, doing 10 by minute on, minute off on the return.
Long overdue I guess but I landed a lifetime pass to the National Parks as a veteran. Didn't know that was a thing.
60.2 miles on week.
Most of the week was in Vegas for CES.
Two days of the crush of humanity of CES was more than enough for my wee brain.
Monday - 6 miles solo, sorta dragging.
Tuesday - zero. Travelled to LAS, had a full day. Walked a stupid amount.
Wednesday - 6:30 start with LF and did 8.6 out from the Strip to UNLV.
Thursday - another 6:30 start with LF and did 10 heading west from the Strip.
Friday - back to CO. Tired and 6 miles
Saturday - got some new Nike Vomero Plus. Tested them out on the ditch sidewalk up into Interlocken. Nice. 10 miles.
Sunday - 10 miles, about half of it on the front with GW.
So - a bit over a 50 mile week. Nothing great on intensity but my runs with LF end up being a bit faster than I would self select for an easy run.
Connect has me at 5.5 miles of walks but that is what I fired the watch up for. Tuesday was something like 25k steps of walking with the conference. Anyway, 86 miles of running on the year which is almost 50x what I did last January.
I do need to get back to body weight exercises.
Obligatory EOY post with numbers
Connect puts me at 2197.4 of running. Strava has me at 2194.
This came on the "back nine" - with almost no miles in January.
Signing up for Pikes, motivated by nudge from Don S if I am honest, got me moving a bit in June. It was a good nudge. More that at some point.
December was the highest volume month in terms of miles, but it actually was about level in terms of time (the last months of the year were around 39 hours a month) - coming in with less than 10k of vert (CA travel to the Bay there).
Apparently last year I did 2300 miles ...
I walked a lot ... I actually measured it this year. Shaking my head at how much I walked in January. For interest I eyeballed steps. That came at just under 19k a day.
60 miles on the week
Mon - 9 miles with about 5 of it with GW
Tue - 9 miles down through Holmberg / Roberts
Wed - 9.4 miles down through Holmberg / Roberts
Thu - 9 miles on the warmest day recorded for Christmas in Denver. A loop with JZ (absolutely wonderful
Fri - 7.2 miles including about 5 of it with GW
Sat - 9.1 miles, a mile starting with TZ and then the rest around the Lake Link / Ridgeview loop
Sun - with JZ on the ditch path up into Interlocken. 7.2 miles
Another 10.8 miles of walking (at least) as well.
2164.4 miles of running on the year according Strava, 2167.8 according to Garmin C. Walking is at 766 miles on the year.
Back to Green. It was a train wreck. I went up the middle out of Gregory and managed to average under twenty minutes a mile for each of the miles except the last. I was falling a lot though and cracked my knee pretty good on the way in the boulder field on Greenman.
I got a call about 2 minutes from the summit by TZ that she was heading down so I flipped. I thought I'd get down in about 40 minutes. I was wrong. I was moving at 2mph (27 min/mile) on the down. Even on the runable sections, I was flopping at 15 minutes a mile. I was a hurting dog.
5.5 miles, with about 2200 feet of climbing.
I was cooked for a bit post. Afternoon nap helped.
50.5 miles on the week, with close to 5k of vert. It started as a solid week but sorta came off the rails by the weekend. 1160 something on the year.
Up early with LF's crew at BHMS track. 4 x 800-400 and then an extra 400 for good measure.
Fairly convinced the track work is abusing my left ankle some.
10 miles on the morning.
10 years ago this weekend, Jack and I won at BV, and with that became a Triple Crown winner in Pack Burro Racing. Like many things in the past, it seems like yesterday and more than 10 years ago at the same time.
FWIW - the burro we raced against, Yukon, is still a force on the pack burro racing circuit
8 miles today. Climbed out of Cragmoor and up to the climb wall and then wandered around a bit. Got me to 56 and change on the week with over 5k on the week. It felt like it has been 10 years since I did something like that.
It was slow.
Again ... it has been a bit. Based on labels on this blog, I have not been up Green since October of 2023. That seems too long to be true, but I guess it could make sense. That would mean I didn't get on it for all of 2024. Sheesh.
I was mildly surprised at some trail reroutes and new connectors. Again, I guess that is what happens when you don't go there for almost 2 years. I meandered around, actually coming down after being halfway up, before heading back up to the summit.
I zapped myself pretty good over 9 miles, 3k+ of vert. Legs were beat. It has probably been that long since I have had that much of a vert day.
Seven in the AM. Dragging again.
Gigged at Rails in the evening with The Pinebox Sleepers for their 9th birthday party. I'll say it was our best outing yet. Probably not a pic or video to be found of course.
Inched through 1100 miles on the year today. If I can maintain the knee and some fair habits, a 2K year could be doable.
