Week 27 - update
· Oct 31, 07:59 PM
I extended training into the first two days of this week, and now it’s time for a little rest, recovery and boredom. It’s getting to be that time of year. Recovery comes when I’m a little less wiped out than I was after, say, a double OD. So I get antsy a little quicker, but with the heavier load in terms of intensity and spenst, the rest is just as important.
Halfway point - Week 26
· Oct 28, 07:02 PM
Sunday I’ll be officially half way through my training year. It’s not a particularly momentous occasion, just something worth noting I guess. At that point I can do the hourly projection vs. the realistic projection and see where things shake out. It might be interesting.
Week 25
· Oct 22, 03:27 PM
Last week was fairly typical of what I expect for the fall. Volume is down a bit, spenst and intensity are up. Now is the time of year when all workouts are not created equal. Specifically, the time for aerobic gains is pretty much gone. All indications are that I made some seriously good progress on my engine from May through late August. September was a bit of a transitional month where hopefully I didn’t lose much, and now I’m at the point where it’s time to start getting ready to race. We’re barely a month away from the first races in West Yellowstone, and since they’re not going to be heart rate limited, it’s probably time to start getting used to putting out some higher efforts and suffering a little more.
Return of the Log - 24
· Oct 14, 08:50 PM
At least I think it’s Week 24. I could go and count, but I’m not really all that motivated to do so. It’s largely unimportant. This was my first week of solid training now that I’m back in Bend and back to being healthy. Got a bit distracted on the health front with all that travel, but things are good now. Took a little while to get my feet back under me, it’s occasionally good to remember how tough being sick is, because maybe it will inspire me to not get sick this winter!
Training Update - 21 and 22
· Sep 28, 06:38 AM
I’ve been a little behind posting the training for the last 10 days, and I’m not too excited for a lot of make-up posting, so it’s going to be quick and dirty. Last week (21) was a shortened recover/moving/travel week that started with an OD to finish off the previous block and ended with Moosilauke. Lab testing was on Thursday and I flew on Friday. Moosilauke has been written up, my lab test was fine, and the best news out of the week was that 4.25 hours on Monday was decidedly not an OD. I played it safe and called it good at that, but this weekend’s OD will have to be more on the 4.75-5 side I think.
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Week 20 - Intensity (Updated)
· Sep 16, 08:01 PM
What does it say when my most comment inspiring post of the summer is about ice cream and how to best add chocolate to it? Should I be writing a food blog instead? Regardless, it’s good to know I’m not the only one that appreciates good chocolate, and Uncle William’s suggestion will be getting tried soon. And now, back to training.
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Sauna Training - 19
· Sep 9, 02:01 PM
The last couple days have been good training for bad saunas. Not for the heat, but for the days when someone loads the stove with damp wood, lets it smolder, and then somehow opens the door so the smoke vents into the sauna. Black Butte is burning, and the smoke is blowing in to town worse than it has all summer. Tuesday morning it was thick enough that I couldn’t see Awbrey Butte from Summit High. They must be at least a mile or mile and a half apart. The good news is that evacuees are being allowed back in, which means that they must be getting the thing contained. And at least I’m not trying to train in Sun Valley, where I don’t think breathing has been very much fun for the last 3 weeks. On the training front it appears that there is hope, and I probably won’t be stuck in recovery mode all fall.