Week Ending Jan 28, 2012

I ran up Barr Trail for the second time this year on Sunday. I ran about as far as I ran last time – somewhere in between the top of the incline and Barr Camp. It was really slick up there. Add in the wind and cold to a really slick trail and I wanted nothing to do with going farther. I turned around to get the hell out of there and ran into Peter Maksimow and Justin Ricks coming up. I told them to turn around and we all ran down together. An extra few miles in Manitou made it a 2hr 25min run for me, which was a great start to the week. Monday I ran a double of 11 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon. This was looking like a great week and I finally felt that I hit my stride and was getting back into shape. Then on Tuesday I only ran 4. I was really busy and didn’t have more time to run. Wednesday was a medium day and Thursday was another zero. I was too exhausted to run again. Man, I really need to find out what’s going on. I don’t know why I’m so tired near the end of the week that I have to go home and sleep and can’t go out for a run. Friday afternoon was a great run in Cheyenne Canon and I ran a race on Saturday. A race? Yeah, I haven’t done one of those since Sept 11th. I opted to race a flat 8-miler in Colorado Springs. The plan was to run it as a tempo run/workout to see where I was fitness wise. That plan was shot to hell as I ran the first mile in 5:10. The rest of my miles were run at 5:40-5:50 and I finished in 45:42. It was a decent performance for a winter race with little training and no speed work. I definitely tell I had not run anything like that in a long time as I was sore Saturday afternoon and Sunday. 77 miles for the week.