Done

Well the weekends runs are finished. Did 5 on the treadmill last night with a bit of faster stuff inserted during the workout. Got out in the snow today for a trail run but ended up on the roads around the Garden. The trails were making me feel my plantar and I got on the smoother more plowed roads. With the rain/snow yesterday and snow this am the trails were just too slick for me to actually run. The 'PJ' and I were out for ~ 1:45. She needed therun almost as much as I did. With Cindy not running and me gone she has put on more lbs than I have. The sun is out and it's still snowing; might as well make a trip to the Loop.

Home again

With as much or as little as you travel, there is no place like home!
Went to bed last night at 8:38 read for an hour then passed out.
Pups woke me up early and I decided to walk with Ted. Damn I'm glad I can still run AND walk.Was great to get out before our predicted snow hits this weekend. I'll get in 45 minutes saturday then a planned 90 minutes on Sunday. Don't wanna know how far I've gone because it's too damn depressing. Just like thinking about how much fuel the jets used to practice fly-overs for tommorows Air Force football game. They just went past for the 3rd time. Any way another weekend for this fat old guy.

WOW

"Been a long time since I rock and rolled"
And a while since I've posted. But I'm back!
Just in from The Running Event in Austin. Good good time. Lots of seminars about how to run the business better; the state of running specialty and looking for new product. NO I was not able to convince Asics to sell us shoes but made progress in that area. Our good buddies at
Naperville Running Company won Store of the Year. The only thing that could be better is if
Colorado Running Company won. Ran a 5K race and broke the magical 30 minute barrier.
It was a good time.

Imogene Pass Survival run

Well that was fun! Ran as usual no real taper, you have to be training to do that, just took Thursday off but had a good rest of the week. Cindy was much more into my running than I was. What outfit, how many gels, water ect????......Her concern was nice. But I had a plan and was sticking to it. I knew I would be walking a bunch at higher altitude so taking it real easy early would be key. I was hoping to run into one of my freinds who has run this many times as her pace would be honest for me. This is a course where you can legally take short cuts. And I planned to use every short cut. They are steeper than the longer way but they would also make me walk a bit early. After .25 miles of flat the course starts uphill. Took the 2 short cuts and yes they were faster. Saw my freind right after 1 mile and ran chatted with her for the next few miles. She was hurting and I made her run a few sections she would've walked. Things like let's run to that tree; to that big rock. I took pictures along the way as this race is beautiful. (Pikes Peak is also but this area is like a little Switzerland) After 5 miles I left her and saw another freind (coworker of Cindy) who was running his first real race in a while. Cindy had told me his goal was to beat me, HA. He had seen me run the time I bonked on Pikes Peak from no gels. But he's a great guy so I encouraged him as I went by and we ran a bit together. He'd catch up when I stopped to click photos. After 7 miles it gets real steep and rocky and loose. I had to walk/ jog this section. Another mile up and it was all walking. I don't do well at altitude and this is over 13,000' . The plan was walk 100 steps fast ;stop catch breath repeat. I passed a bunch of people doing this and was well within myself at the top.I waited to snap a few photos of my freinds at the top~ 3 minutes gave high fives and headed down the 7 miles to Telluride. I didn't fall!! Saw one poor girl superman fall 100 meters from the pavement. The down is brutal on the quads. I finished and that is that.

Summer is here.

Started my run late today ~ 9:30. Took 2 bottles and gels with me. The H2O was gone in the first hour. I did this same run Tuesday in cool weather without H2O and was fine. Today the HR was 10-15 beats higher than Tuesday. The heat just crushed me. Good thing I let the pups stay home. They would've almost died. Saw Kelly as I was just about to the trailhead and she said it's a hundred degrees out here. Not quite but 82 is hot for us.
Looking to get out earlier this week.
LT 100 was this weekend. Their website sucks ass. It's NOT all about Lance. Update your freaking site for the run. But word is Tony was on CR pace but cramped and dropped. JT had Safai carry him to the finish in 23 hours and then again in 24 hours, Brooks looks like he finished can't find anything else. Did I mention how bad their site is!

Busy

Been busy! last weel was PPA/PPM. The race; the expo; the drinking and a bit of running.
The 'G' did great 3rd woman 31st overall to the top. She keeps just cranking out the results at her favorite race. In 14 tries she has never been out of the top 8.
I've been getting in some running myself. Was gonna go real long today but ate something bad for breakfast and only went 90 minutes. Did I say only? It is getting to be the best time of the year in Colorado. Get your as$ out and enjoy!

Is it July already?

Damn June went fast! But it was good. June was my best running month since Sept '08. And that was just 30 minutes a day but every day. I now have a plan I may b e able to follow. It's 5 days running with 2 workouts and 1 long run. I walk the other 2 days for some kind of activity. My workouts have been 1 minute on/1 minute off for 30 minutes up Barr Taril. The other is 200's on the track. Not many of the 200 but I try to get them to be ASAP. The mountains are slowly opening up and the foothills are still way green. It's been a wet early summer. Till later.