I've been delinquent on weekly posts to the blog for the past few weeks. My mind has been elsewhere, but that doesn't mean training has completely fallen off too. I feel like I'm a tad behind on my goals, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it. I'm free-styling my way through training this year much more than I did in 2011. Let's get down to it.
2/27-3/4 - I basically took this entire week off to recover from the infected blister I got while out in CA. I did manage to log 7 miles from South Mesa up Shadow Canyon. I hadn't run up the canyon until this point and it proved to be as gnarly as I've heard. Really steep, but really fun.
3/5 - 3/11:
3/5 Mon: 6 mi (49 mins) Twin Lakes
3/8 Thu: 5 mi (1:24, 2,400') Green Mtn - Hit the summit in 47 mins
3/9 Fri: 6 mi (47 mins) Twin Lakes
3/10 Sat: 5 mi (1:32, 2,800') Green Mtn - Started on 6th St, hit the summit in 49 mins
3/11 Sun: 10 mi (1:49, 1,900') S. Brook, Goshawk, Mesa to Bluestem - Loving the Goshawk loop.
Weekly Totals:
Miles: 39
Vert: 9,100'
Time: 7hr 53min
3/12 - 3/18:
3/13 Tue: 9.5 mi (1:21) Twin Lakes to top of White Rocks - The most road running I've done in the last year. I had to do a little poaching of the Boulder Country Club golf course to get home.
3/14 Wed: 6 mi (1:08, 1,300') Mesa to Bear Creek Canyon entrance
3/17 Sat: 5 mi (1:32, 2,700') Green Mtn from 7th St - Summit in 50 mins. Pretty slow go.
3/18 Sun: 13 mi (2:28, 3,250') Mesa Trail down McClintock- The first time I've done the full Mesa Trail since November. I tried something new this time by taking McClintock down to Chautauqua rather than the gravel service road, which is always so brutal midway through this run. McClintock is far superior as it offers technical singletrack and more steeps than the service road. Plus, there is far less people traffic.
Weekly Totals:
Miles: 33.5
Vert: 7,550'
Time: 6hr 29min
3/19 - 3/25:
3/22 Thu: 4.2 mi (:39, 700') McClintock, Mesa to NCAR - PM lazy run after work
3/23 Fri: 7.4 mi (1:15, 1,330') MClintock, Mesa to N. Shanahan - Really nice evening stroll through the cool shade of the forest.
3/25 Sun: 20 mi (4:05, 4,010') S.Brook, Goshawk, Mesa - My first 20er of the season! I ran the first 8-mile loop with Mehri and since she doesn't run trails too often, the pace was really mild. I felt strong late in the run with all the typically steep climbs on Mesa, which was very encouraging. Had I run this solo, I'd probably be 20 mins quicker, but since it's the first 20er of the year, I don't really care. It was a blast of a run. I can't wait for SoBo Creek to start raging for my routine post-run foot-soaking sessions.
Weekly Totals:
Miles: 31.6
Vert: 6,040'
Time: 6hrs flat
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Weekly Update 2/20-2/26 (A Little So Cal Sunshine)
2/20 Mon - 0
2/21 Tue - 6 mi (:52) Twin Lakes - Easy run to get back into the groove after the gnarly long run from the previous Sunday.
2/22 Wed - 6 mi (1:10, 700') Mesa Trail - Mellow, still a bit tired from the following week.
2/23 Thu - Went to LA for an extended weekend.
2/24 Fri - 5 mi (:58, 1,700') Mission Peak in Santa Susana Mountains (Three Trees) - I've always wanted to run this mountain and so I finally did. Started from O'Melveny Park in Granada Hills. This was a complete departure from the usual Rocky Mountain runs I do. The track was perfectly smooth and super steep. To not be under an evergreen canopy the whole time was strange - the mountain is completely covered in green grass. Great views of downtown LA too. Hit the summit in 28 mins. On the descent I felt a rather unusual blister form under my right foot.
2/25 Sat - 6 mi (1,600', 1:45) Hollywood Hills w/ my dude Dez - Perfect day with mid-70's temps. We started on Canyon Dr from the Hollywood side of the mountains and headed up to Old Mulholland Hwy, which we then took to an overlook above the observatory and traversed the range back toward the Hollywood sign and then back down to the trailhead. All-around super fun run. We even had some rather entertaining singletrack bush-wacking sessions on the north side. We grabbed some really good vegan food down on Sunset for lunch. The pesky blister held up fine all morning too.
2/26 Sun - 3 mi (:30, 500') Santa Monica Mountains Trippet Ranch trail - So, this was meant to be the weekly 15-mile long run, but the blister from the other day had become pretty infected and running on it proved to be pretty painful. It's too bad because this trail was wicked! I had meant to connect to the Backbone trail down on Old Topanga Rd, but once I got down there, I could hardly walk. I sadly turned around and ran up Entrada Rd (nice climb). I'll be back to tackle the Backbone soon.
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Week Totals:
Miles: 26
Vert: 4,500'
Time: 5:15
February Totals:
Miles: 85
Vert: 24,689'
Time: 21:53
February turned out to be pretty disappointing from a numbers perspective due to getting sick and then getting an infected blister on my foot (yet again). I can't help the former, but the latter was totally preventable and I obviously didn't learn my lesson from the last time this happened. The trip to LA was a nice reprieve from the Colorado winter temps.
I will be ramping up the vert and the mileage in earnest in March because I really don't have much more time before the Dirt Thirty in June.
2/21 Tue - 6 mi (:52) Twin Lakes - Easy run to get back into the groove after the gnarly long run from the previous Sunday.
2/22 Wed - 6 mi (1:10, 700') Mesa Trail - Mellow, still a bit tired from the following week.
2/23 Thu - Went to LA for an extended weekend.
2/24 Fri - 5 mi (:58, 1,700') Mission Peak in Santa Susana Mountains (Three Trees) - I've always wanted to run this mountain and so I finally did. Started from O'Melveny Park in Granada Hills. This was a complete departure from the usual Rocky Mountain runs I do. The track was perfectly smooth and super steep. To not be under an evergreen canopy the whole time was strange - the mountain is completely covered in green grass. Great views of downtown LA too. Hit the summit in 28 mins. On the descent I felt a rather unusual blister form under my right foot.
2/25 Sat - 6 mi (1,600', 1:45) Hollywood Hills w/ my dude Dez - Perfect day with mid-70's temps. We started on Canyon Dr from the Hollywood side of the mountains and headed up to Old Mulholland Hwy, which we then took to an overlook above the observatory and traversed the range back toward the Hollywood sign and then back down to the trailhead. All-around super fun run. We even had some rather entertaining singletrack bush-wacking sessions on the north side. We grabbed some really good vegan food down on Sunset for lunch. The pesky blister held up fine all morning too.
2/26 Sun - 3 mi (:30, 500') Santa Monica Mountains Trippet Ranch trail - So, this was meant to be the weekly 15-mile long run, but the blister from the other day had become pretty infected and running on it proved to be pretty painful. It's too bad because this trail was wicked! I had meant to connect to the Backbone trail down on Old Topanga Rd, but once I got down there, I could hardly walk. I sadly turned around and ran up Entrada Rd (nice climb). I'll be back to tackle the Backbone soon.
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Week Totals:
Miles: 26
Vert: 4,500'
Time: 5:15
February Totals:
Miles: 85
Vert: 24,689'
Time: 21:53
February turned out to be pretty disappointing from a numbers perspective due to getting sick and then getting an infected blister on my foot (yet again). I can't help the former, but the latter was totally preventable and I obviously didn't learn my lesson from the last time this happened. The trip to LA was a nice reprieve from the Colorado winter temps.
I will be ramping up the vert and the mileage in earnest in March because I really don't have much more time before the Dirt Thirty in June.
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