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Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Week In Review: 1/9/12-1/15/2012

     This has without a doubt been another great week of training.  Its always a delight to get out in the hills with Mel and Luna a couple of times during the week.  Thursday's trip to the Foothills Trail allowed us to do some invaluable re-con for March's traverse.  The bit of speedwork on Wednesday felt great and I recovered well.  Doing back to back double digits this weekend was a new and important experience.  I felt like my body handled the short recovery period pretty well (not as well as Luna's!) and was blessed with beautiful weather, though a little chilly at times, for both of those excursions.  So here it is, the week in review:

1/9- Monday
      AM- 4 miles at UNCA in ~35 minutes.  1 on the treadmill and 3 barefoot just inside of the track.   0 vert
      PM-  3 miles to the video store and home with Luna, 27 minutes, 100 ft

1/10- Tuesday
      AM- 4.5 miles in 1:00 in Montreat with Mel and Luna.  Lookout Trail to Rattlesnake Mountain, Rainbow Road up Rainbow Mountain and down Rainbow Road to the parking area. 1,076 ft

1/11- Wednesday
     AM- ~8.5 with Luna on the MST in :58.  862 ft
              Splits:
              74-A to Sweeten Creek: 30:29
              Double track and back: 20:01


1/12- Thursday
      AM- 5.5 miles with Mel and Luna on the Foothills Trail at Whitewater Falls in 1:20. ~600 ft

1/13- Friday
      100 pushups, 50 dips, 30 pull-ups, 8.5 minutes of planks

1/14-Saturday
       PM- 18 miles at Warren Wilson with Luna in 2:13.  Met up with Adam and Scott for the final 8 in 62 minutes.  ~450 ft

1/15- Sunday
       PM- 18 miles in Bent Creek with Luna in 2:20.  Definitely fatigued from yesterday for the first 9 or 10, but was really able to pick it up for the remainder.  ~3500 ft

Totals: 61.5 miles, 8 hours 53 minutes, ~6588 ft vertical

This doesn't to any justice to the grandeur of Whitewater Falls  

Gal on the go

Babe on a bridge

This place rocks... Ha..ha.ha..

5 comments:

  1. Nice week man! You are gonna rock Rhode Island. Isn't it nice when you find those pretty women on the Foothills trail? Can't wait for you guys to come north!

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    1. Whoa, what happened on Friday the 13th? I'll tell you what happened: you emasculated me.

      Good work, keep it steady... Come March you'll be ready.

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    2. Nice weekend man! I did two double digit runs as well, but each were about about 6 miles less than yours and you ran both of yours 18 milers in about the same time! You are killing it man!

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    3. Rob- So nice. RI is going to be a blast!

      Matt- Good rhyme. I didn't want to risk running on such an ominous day, so I had to occupy myself with somthing.

      Brandon- The back to back big ones is a pretty sweet test, eh? Be seeing you at Sultan this weekend?

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    4. Oh yea man! Can't wait! Hoping for a sub-6 hour finish. You'll be sub 5:30 for sure.

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