Training Log Archive: bbrooke

LoCO FIT Spring Training! At Davidson Mesa.

- Ran one mile to warm up.

- Two-mile time trial, as a baseline for the season -- 16:43 (8:32, 8:11). I would describe this effort as "pushing it, but not killing myself".

- Ran one mile+ to cool down.

C • pushing it 2

I carpooled with some other local ladies to the Stapleton location of Runners Roost for the store's one-year anniversary run & party (Holly, the Stapleton store manager, used to be the manager of our local Louisville store).

I had planned to just walk, or maybe run two miles max...but I ended up doing 3.1 with the others (at a slow pace).

After the run, I went full-Denver-hipster with a passionfruit-sour beer and food-truck avocado toast. And then some cake. Ugh -- ate way too much.

Yay -- I'm caught up with my first week of LoCO FIT Spring Training, even though I was out of town for four days. I did the Thursday workout on Wednesday in Houston; I did the Tuesday workout yesterday (Saturday); and my Saturday long run today (Sunday). :-P

I had planned an out-and-back route from home to the Meadowlark trail in Superior (since that would include a big hill climb). But, apparently the Coal Creek Trail connector from Hwy 36 to McCaslin is closed for construction work (and it looked like a total muddy mess -- not a closure I'd want to ignore).

So I ran along the bikeway for a while (noisy!), and then decided to take the underpass to Davidson Mesa. But, the underpass was a lot father west than I remembered -- I had to run along the shoulder of 50-mph Marshall Road for quite a while. Generally, I don't enjoy the noise or the traffic of road running, and I'm constantly afraid I'm gonna get run over by a texting idiot. But I survived. :-P And I have a new appreciation for the many miles of off-street trails & paths we have around here...

Weather was nice -- 50ish, mostly sunny, no wind.

Catching up on this week's LoCO Fit workouts...

- Ran 1.25 miles from home up to Davidson Mesa to warm up.

- 6 x (half-mile effort at just faster than 5K race pace / walk two minutes).

- Ran back home to cool down.

50s and sunny -- mild wind.

A day to catch-up on sleep and work.

Travel day -- walked to & from office, and walked a L-O-N-G way in the Houston airport (from my gate to a lunch spot at the opposite end of the concourse, and then back to my gate), and then the usual long walks at DIA.

The group from Monday's run told me about another run on Wednesdays at lululemon. I joined the group and, once we got started, I decided to do one of do the LoCO FIT workouts I missed this week, since we were pretty spaced out along the running route: run one mile to warm up (I went about 1.5); 10 x (1 minute fast / 2 minutes recovery); run a half mile to cool down.