Training Log Archive: ebuckley

Warmup, or better stated, staying warm by moving. Light mist and 43F made standing around pretty chilly.

Double Chubb 25K (AKA Single Chubb). Would have loved to run the 50K in such great conditions, but with the marathon so close, I contented myself with running the single at marathon effort. Raised the effort a bit more than that coming in for no particular reason as there were several minutes on either side of me. Mud wasn't bad on the way out. A bit sloppy along the river coming back. Tyson side was fine as usual. Nice confidence builder with 2 weeks to go - I'm sure I could have held that effort for another hour (but probably not the full 50K). 2nd overall. 1st master.

Splits:
24:27 Start to Tyson tracks
30:55 (55:22) Turnaround
30:23 (1:25:46) Tyson tracks
24:10 (1:49:56) Tyson trailhead
5:16 (1:55:13) Chinkapin loop

I wish I'd remembered to take splis at the Lone Elk trailhead, as this was obviously a PR for the trail. Probably about 3 minutes each way from the trailhead to the turnaround and then another 45 seconds or so from the start to the Tyson trailhead. I guess I'll be conservative and call it 1:45 for the Chubb Trail proper, but I think it was faster than that.

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Dropped my plaque and medal off at the car and then joined David for the start of his second loop. He was going fast enough that I let him go after a mile and continued on at a pretty easy pace to the aid station at the tracks, which was manned by Vicki Vojak, Don Hong, and a few other fairly cool folks I consider freinds. Seemed like I might be going a bit too long (the whole point of doing the single was to be able to recover in time for one more quality workout late next week), so I came back cutting straight through the woods.