Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Raining in the morning, slept in, got some work done actually, and then, time to ski. Waited until it had dried out some; had I known it was sunny 40 miles north I may have driven there and run something. But the ski was very nice. Jacket came off quick, and 60˚ and cloudy the rest of the way around. Felt pretty good up the final climb back to the car, beat dark back easily.

Late deck, mostly because my dinner was too big and had to settle. Also some stretching after. Oh and pie.

Late, slow deck. Started out with a hat on, windbreaker on and the propane stove going. Quickly took off the hat, then the jacket, and then turned off the stove. Now sweaty. Shower, bed.

All last October, running a marathon and then being injured, I completed 4763m of vert (more than half of it in two days at Harriman and then the Adams Challenge).

In the past 8 days, I've completed 5264m.

Got a late-ish start, and want to do trail-running stuff. Traffic on 93 and weather precluded Adams Challenging today. So headed up to Speckled, which was not too much extra driving (but still some). But the trail was great. Out on some roads, which made for nice running, then some pretty overgrown trail until a side trail came in that apparently most people use and it was clear sailing up to the summit, with some good foliage and views across the ledges. Saw four people on the summit, and then ran the ridge through the wilderness. Not many people back here! (I can't imagine how Franconia Ridge must have been crazy today.) Then down a rather steep trail but I figured that I'd already lost most of the elevation and had; it turned in to a nice old forest road. I decided not to hack through a mile of overgrown sled trail and instead ran two miles on the road back to the car.

Decided since I'm going for #vert I should help myself along tracking the times I've ridden to NP this year. It's always a workout (always late or close to it) and 86m is nothing to sneeze at. Plus between AP and Strava and my own tracking, I have a good track record of when I did and didn't bike up the hill.

Five front hills. I went out to drop the first hill and equaled my previous best time. Still 16 seconds behind Kyle, though. That may not be attainable: 1:38-->1:22. He's a madman. L3 by the bottom, pushing hard.

Then 5 relatively easy hills.

Then the deck, pretty fast, and as a deck, didn't distribute well. Last few black cards were struggly.

Another countdown, under 20 minutes (split, however).

Feeling a little better, maybe this cold will be a quick-hitter. Cooler/drier weather might help!

Sets of 13 minutes today. Try to have even splits of number of sections. Except the first set was more like 15 minutes. And it was crowded starting the second two. 21, 18, 17. 55 and foggy, so, hot.

Slow, split deck today. Getting a head cold (blah) and sore sore sore from the decks. This should last a few more days. Still, <25, so kept going.

Second day of October #deckaday. Not bad time. Some hurt.

Run to/from NP. Run there. Group shuffle back.

Deck of cards workout, with duck-duck-goose (or as the several Minnesotans kept saying during the instructions, gray duck) around the circle. Leg lifts, burpies, mountain climbers, and jump squats. I think I will count this as deck a day, although other days will be reds and blacks.

Off to bounding. Took the 70 bus which gave me 17 minutes to go over the hill from the bus stop. Basically straight up the hill. I forget how big Prospect is! Up the roads, then stairs, then down the pavement. Goddamn you could put a nice homologated course in here.

Then a warmup with CSU up and over the hill and back down.

Then sets of short bounds, with hops in between. Yes, short, but good for a recovery day. Bounding is hard.

I'd taken old poles from the strategic pole reserve and really should put road tips on them; baskets got in the way. Also, what a nice A climb Prospect would be.