Training Log Archive: FoxShadow

Wanted to get something in but didn't have much time after being out of town for the weekend and needing to catch up with work today. Did a 12 minute HIIT workout with a bit of a warm up and cool down. Felt good.

Need to stay committed to both fitness and body composition with the Birkie and Arrowhead beginning to loom. I am feeling inspired by the performances of Crusher, Chrome and others lately. Let's go winter fitness! Tough to do when the sun goes down at 4:34PM, but so far so good. Felt pretty strong at last weekend's meet.

C • yeah! 1

Middle, cold, windy, super wet, super fun! Competitive field. Had a good run, but so did everyone else!

OCIN_Armco_Middle_Dec_2013_Blue - Splits

34 degrees and rainy with ice and mud for footing. But a great map on great terrain made for a fun relay.

Our team, David Frei, Dave Swanson and Bill Pullman was running in third for a bit, then into 4th when I went out. Went out on red just a bit after Ted Good, and was able to pass him on the way to control 1. But then, unbeknownst to me until the finish, I skipped control 4 (as did he).

Some very tough legs including some really steep and muddy reentrant crawling a la the ultra long of last year. Ran fine, but not as well as the night-O. My legs were a bit sluggish, and knowing that we could not overtake for 3rd stole the fight from me. Good map though, with some fun activities that the boy scouts do hidden in the woods, and interesting route choices.

Of course, disappointed when I downloaded my results. I think this is the first mis-punch in a few years, so hopefully it's a few more until my next one.

Kudos to AliC for raging this course in 35 minutes, the fastest time recorded on Red.

C • thanks 2

OCIN_US_Relay_2013_Red - Splits

Event: OCIN - US Night and Relay Championships
 

Overall a good run on what turned out to be a very diffucult championship course. In hindsight I would have brought a GU and trained more - it was really long and difficult! Great route choices, steep reentrants, awesome challenge.

I lost some steam in the second half, and certainly had a number of regrattable mistakes, but none of them were large. On a night like last night, that adds up to a good run, and I'm certainly happy with the result.

Thanks to OCIN for another fastastic race. It reminded me a bit of the cold and rainy ultralong last year, grueling and very fun! Congrats to the winners.

C • Good run 2

OCIN_US_Night_2013_Blue - Splits

Spin class. Less sick this time, but the virus is hanging on by a thread. Curse it! Arrived a bit late, warmed up for 10 minutes, then reset the computer. Averaged 268 watts.

Shoveled off the SLP HS track and did some speed work. Sometimes you've gotta grab life by the horns and be a man, even if there is no good reason for it. The clock struck man-time this afternoon, and the call was answered.

14 200 meter efforts at between 38 and 43 seconds, with 200m jogs in between each.

Also, this whole thing was crusher's idea. She has CC national champs this weekend.