Training Log Archive: X8A7

Yesterday was a tough run. I'm concerned that it showed that my fitness has been waning because intensity has not been high enough. However, I wasn't that tired today and the workout went well, despite the frustrations.

I wanted to do 5x5 minutes up the Towers road at Horsetooth Mt. park. Got to the Soderberg trail head at 9am, it was full. Went to the Horsetooth Mt. trail head, full too. So went to Bobcat ridge, thankfully not full. Of course the Ginny trail and Power Line Trail past the Valley Loop trail were closed due to threat of fire. This really burned me and it spurred my usual cursing of how Colorado is overrated and not that great given there's too many people (and many more coming) many of which are either submorons or entitled rich arrogant pretentious tools, the summer heat, the dryness, the constant threat of sunburn, the fire problems, the high elevation, the high cost of living paired with my subpar pay etc., all the while feeling that I'm kinda stuck here. After I got over my whiny frustration I managed a reasonably good workout doing 6x5min threshold hike with poles up the lower part of the Power line trail to where the closure started. Jog down to the bottom in between. Then my legs started to feel pretty tired and I hiked back. HR didn't rise like I thought it would on the hard sets, but they were indeed level 3. Warmup included both hiking and hiking with poles, both pretty easy and I prorated their times to 115 AHR. Well, at least I'm not somewhere in the 80% of the country where I really would be furious if I had to live there.

From red barn, all the usual trails, but not the PLC. Nice and sunny, a bit warmer than I wanted, but it cools slowly throughout the run. Slowly ramped the speed up the entire run.

From the house after I got back, I just wanted to get a bit more time. I was pretty tired and it was tough to get going again.

Chest muscle thing was feeling better so I thought trying a roller ski would be worth it. Parked at redbarn out to fishing ponds and back. Took it easy on the arms, did a lot of DP w/ kick, I could feel the chest thing and worried I might have over done it, but I think no damage done. Nice cool weather.

It was warm enough to ride, with the proper clothes, as it was close to 60F, overcast still, which actually is a nice change of pace. Parked at the Funplex to get away from the house. Sheeps draw plus the KS 'burbs, down to the dog park via F street, out to the spur and back. Good enough.

Cool and overcast. Limited motivation to train. Too cold to bike (40sF), the strained chest muscle precludes roller skiing still. So a run is the only option. At PLC and the new trail (which isn't that new, maybe I should call it the middle trail). Anyway, I trudged through it, legs felt heavy again, still a fair amount of soreness from Sunday.

Yesterday was a day off, I knew maybe I should have trained anyway given the weather forecast, but yesterday wasn't any cup of tea either. It "snowed" ash all day and the ash plume above was so thick that for hours it was dark enough for street lights to come on. Today was about what I expected, wintry mix at ~40F. I didn't want to run, but that is the only option in those conditions. Haven't setup the bike trainer yet. Ran around neighborhood and campus, quads were very sore from Sunday and hence the legs in general felt heavy. Only experienced three types of precipitation: rain, snow, and graupel.