Decent week again given the active recovery. 6 days of solid runs.Things are improving to the point that there is little to no pain while running, minor/mild soreness after a longer run, lasts for 30 minutes or so and kicks in afer sitting for a while. A little sore when first getting out of bed in the morning, but that fades fast.
Great run today. Hard to get out the door with the fog and cold, just nasty. Started with Malan's, which I'm happy to say the trail is in much better shape now than last week's frozen nightmare. Broke out of the fog quickly and reveled in the warm sunshine all the way to the top. A little BST running on the South side, too icey and muddy so I headed north, crossed under12th street and headed up BST north. Legs still felt pretty good on the climb, much better than last week. Ran into Joel coming down, got talking about his upcominig N.U.T.S. trail series and the amount of cat tracks on the trail lately, and ended up following him back down to the parking lot. I took the straight up, non-switch back, trail from Rainbow up to the bench with plenty of energy. Ran strong back to the car, got home, found the family out on errands, so having an hour to kill, I headed back up Malan's. Felt great on the second lap and ran it non stop. Trail was still good except I passed some Einstien on his way down who was butt sledding the top half of the trail and covered all the deep post holes with a nice, soft 1 inch veneer of snow, making the knee breakers impossible to see, brilliant! Shouldn't complain, might actually groom out the trail eventually.
Week: 6 days running, about 9100 vet, just under 60 miles. Easy to moderate pace for all of it. | 