All right I'm back. After the back handed beating that was Saturday's run I took a few down days to let things mellow out. Finally getting a handle on this cold? gunk? Legs finally feeling fresh again.
Last summer while going through the a deep training cyle leading up to the Bear 100 I had a term, or an image, that I used to remind myself not over do it. I called it the bucket. The key was to get as close to the rim as possible, but not fall in. Falling in typically looked like a full on crash and burn, sleep for two days, eat eveything I could carry, not want to run for a week type of wreck. Needless to say, I think I put myself in the bucket over the last few weeks by not being fully receovered from the June races and staritng back into hard weeks and fast (for me) efforts too quickly. Going forward, staying out of the bucket will be the aim. My body likes to train, but I have to remeber it like to recover too.
Runs...A cruiser 9 miles yesterday up Wheelers et. al. Ran into Jim S coming down right below the Cold Water trial and we ran back together. He's a great guy and is doing the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning this year. Western and Vermont down, Leadville and Wasatch to go. He is in great shape this year and running strong, I think he has it in the bag.....that is if Speedgoat doesn't kill him tomorrow.
Tonight, easy 3-4 or so up Wheelers/icebox, over toward Art Nord and back the way I came. Ran from the Icebox sign to the gate in 5:50 coming down, I think it's just under a mile, not bad for me,.....'course it's pretty much straight downhill. | 