Odd 24 hours in my life. Nan was in North Carolina for the club xc nationals - congrats to her by the way for 3rd place overall! What a studette. The race was pretty stacked with Hanson's Brooks, McMillan Elite, and Boulder Running company runners, among others, and the only two that beat her were Renee Metivier-Baille and Desiree Davila - and it was just a few seconds of gap between the top 3, and then about a 20 second gap to the next finisher. My wife kicks some serious butt! I had a stomach bug Friday which wiped me out from about 3 PM on...my poor kids had to tuck themselves in (2, 4, and 6 year olds) as I was useless, just laying in bed and vomiting. Pretty much purely miserable 6 hours of life. This morning I felt mostly fine, just tired and dehydrated. Tried to get a little rest while the kids watched a movie at 11 after a breakfast with Santa. Was awoken by my 3 kids informing me that water was dumping into the basement. The toilet had clogged. And it was literally pouring into the basement, fast...not cool. After dealing with that mess, I had a babysitter over at 1:30 and got out for a run. I hadn't eaten much of anything since 3 pm the day before...so I wasn't necessarily feeling all that energized. But I had a couple hours to use, so I headed for the straightest route up green mountain from my house. I felt oddly really good the entire run up, and ran every step, albeit at a super easy pace. First time in a couple weeks my calves and legs didn't feel kind of sore climbing. I just locked into a 145 HR and motored up the trail, and thoroughly enjoyed how smooth and effortless the ascent felt. But by the time I was half way down, my body was telling me it was kind of cooked. Not enough calories in the system, so the last few miles at 6:20-30 pace took a lot more effort than it normally takes coming down them at 6:00 pace. 11.5 mile run - 2 hours even - 10:30avg - 2600' vertical - 138 HR avg - made it up to the four-way 1/4 mile from the top of green in 1:10 - and had to turn around because I needed to be home in 2 hours. Timed it perfectly. I think I can make it up green and back home in 2 hours on a good day. On a negative note, my sweet little green MT101's uppers are already coming apart after only 160 miles on the pair, that's lame and unfortunate. Such a great shoe, but it looks like the uppers are going to blow out pretty quick. For the week: 48.5 Miles - 8300' Vertical
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