Hey all!
Been really busy the last couple of weeks, been hard to blog regularly. Last week I tried to cram 5 days of work into 3-as I left Thursday morning for a guys trip to Colorado.
Had a great week of training last week, including a great swim, bike, and run through early Thursday morning. Got to Breckenridge about 8 p.m. Thursday night, ate some pizza, watched some NCAA b-ball and got to bed. Loren Storts and I decided to get up early Friday morning and sneak down to Breckenridge Recreation Center and get a spin class in before the rest of the group was up and at it. The class was great and the instructor pushed us with a nice LT/power ride including a 10 minute seated climb. The rub here is the class wouldn't have been to bad normally but being at 10,ooo+ feet of altitude you quickly find out how well your training has been going. Loren is a great athlete and just being on the bike next to him pushed me...but then the T-run that we did after was the real challenge. Running next to Loren is awesome as he is a great runner, with solid technique. After a quick t-run did some quick strength drills for the hip flexors. We wrapped Friday up with a good 5+ hours on the slopes of Breckenridge. The legs were less then thrilled with the accumulated training volume-but what a great day.
Saturday we strapped on some snoe shoes and headed to Sally Barber trail, and climbed from approximatley 10,200 ft to 12,900 in 3 miles...what an epic session. This hurt but was great fun...with the exception of the 2 inch+ blister on my arch and the blister on my heal-yuck.
Nice running volume this week-should be pretty interesting to see how the feet heal up before the runs later this week.
Train hard-
Jeff
Been really busy the last couple of weeks, been hard to blog regularly. Last week I tried to cram 5 days of work into 3-as I left Thursday morning for a guys trip to Colorado.
Had a great week of training last week, including a great swim, bike, and run through early Thursday morning. Got to Breckenridge about 8 p.m. Thursday night, ate some pizza, watched some NCAA b-ball and got to bed. Loren Storts and I decided to get up early Friday morning and sneak down to Breckenridge Recreation Center and get a spin class in before the rest of the group was up and at it. The class was great and the instructor pushed us with a nice LT/power ride including a 10 minute seated climb. The rub here is the class wouldn't have been to bad normally but being at 10,ooo+ feet of altitude you quickly find out how well your training has been going. Loren is a great athlete and just being on the bike next to him pushed me...but then the T-run that we did after was the real challenge. Running next to Loren is awesome as he is a great runner, with solid technique. After a quick t-run did some quick strength drills for the hip flexors. We wrapped Friday up with a good 5+ hours on the slopes of Breckenridge. The legs were less then thrilled with the accumulated training volume-but what a great day.
Saturday we strapped on some snoe shoes and headed to Sally Barber trail, and climbed from approximatley 10,200 ft to 12,900 in 3 miles...what an epic session. This hurt but was great fun...with the exception of the 2 inch+ blister on my arch and the blister on my heal-yuck.
Nice running volume this week-should be pretty interesting to see how the feet heal up before the runs later this week.
Train hard-
Jeff
