Training Log Archive: prthiessen

500 years of various swimming and pool running.

2:07 minutes of trail running at White Ranch mostly hiking and decent vertical. Given slight foot pain, bailed on rest of workout and then did 40 min of TM walking with incline right after. Foot just kind of has a dull pain, not much at all, while running, but don't want to risk it.

Tm walking one hour at 11%

Swim 500 meters

Bike to and from work and a bit at lunch, still waiting on foot

Foot still not 100% so did on TM.

10 min normal WU

Then 30 minutes all at 8% 1 min at 8:20 per mile, and then 1 min at 15 min per mile. I made sure that the running minutes were full minutes by starting to speed up before the minute began.

18 minutes of fast walking to cd. Hopefully foot will improve soon.

20 min of non weight bearing weights

TM walking at 4.2 mph up to 15%. Activity did not hurt foot but still wanted to be careful and not rush it with running.

From car mechanic after dropping car off to work and back after work. Injured foot playing with kids doing slip and slide. Not running to let it heal. I think it is just a bruised tendon, not sure. It is healing quickly but I want to be careful.

Easy flat walking outside.

To and from work.

TM walking alternating 5 min fast and 5 min uphill.

Easy with jogging stroller

Loop around White Ranch in the heat (80s). I might have a cold, not sure yet and with the heat just wasn't moving that fast but made it through no worries. Pondered next year's races.

Bike to and from work.

Early morning trail running effort at N. Table. Warmed up the first 5 min or so and then gave it a pretty good effort mostly uphill going out and then downhill coming back. Not exhausted at the end but a good effort was given.

Tm walking fast and some with incline

Mixed weights

Easy miles with 10 min or form drills in the middle at the park.

15 min ab workout.

Easyish run in the hot sun. 4X 45 sec strides at the end.

Decently hard weights.

To and from gym.

Two sessions dawn 3.5 trailrunning easy. Then later 1.5 miles with jogging stroller.

Light weights. Stopped because hamstring hurting a bit.

TM flat easy running while kids in childcare at the Y while Molly worked. Mostly at 830.

Two easy laps around Cheeseman at lunch.

Easy around Cheeseman at lunch. Still sore but fine.

Easy mile after a long day at work.

Easy lap around Cheeseman with some walking.

Easy walk and very light jog to loosen up.

Silver Rush 50 2017 - 93 overall and 81 male. Nearly 8000 feet of gain. 514 outbound and 537 inbound. I'm not sure about the distances with the new course since it is not a true outbound anymore. It got very hot the last two hours. I ran conservatively and was in the top 200 at the first aid station at 13.5. I was taking a Gu every 30 min and drinking a lot of water. I was peeing a lot the first 4.5 hours, but the last half only peed once. My quads were getting a little trashed on the downhill around mile 30-34 and I tried really hard to conserve them and pour water on them to cool them off but they eventually got trashed on the final 10 mile stretch. I think in the heat from mile 35 on I got a little lazy with my nutrition. I was still taking in calories but probably only 100-150 per hour and with the heat I think I convinced myself this was a better idea but it wasn't. I also hike really hard up the last climb to 12000 after mile 37.5 thinking I could still break my record of 10:06, but to no avail. That extra effort caused me to not be able to run hard on the downhill. I still was able to run most of the downhill the last 10 miles, but had to take walk breaks. The last 2 miles was almost all walking. It was also discouraging because I lost contact with other runners the last 7 miles. I would say that over the second half of the race though, I was passed by maybe 5-10 people, so I was proud about that. I also took salt all day and tried really hard to keep my hat and bandana really wet at all creek crossings. I am always amazed but most people who don't do this. It takes 5 seconds! I never sat down or stopped for more than 1 minute at any aid station. I only had to visit the woods one time and that helped a lot. Funny, today we are still in Leadville and the clouds are in and it is raining a bit. If I would have had those temps yesterday I guarantee I would have taken a half hour off. Oh well, that is why they run the races. I am proud of the effort.

Easy run around Cheeseman with strides.

Flat medium effort walking.

Had to mix up the order a bit. 13 min wu with strides. Then 5X 6:40 pace, then 2 min easy, then 5X640 pace. Went a bit harder than I should have in the heat in hindsight. Ran back to work for a bit of a CD then on TM 500 X 8:27 X 6%. Good effort.

Easy trail run at N. Table Mountain for the 4th!

Exercises while kids nap at 9000 feet

Easy trail run at 9000 feet.

Easy trail run/hike all above 9000 feet at my in-laws cabin. Knee was totally fine. Not a conern- yeah!

Easy trail run/hike above 9000 feet. Felt fine- beautiful weather!

Insanity workout with Ben before drive to in-laws cabin near Lake San Isabel.