This makes my trip to Denver that much sweeter: Packers 19, Denver 13 A little YouTube clip for everyone's enjoyment: On to running. I'll try to give a little bit more detail to what I'm doing and thinking over these next several days. This afternoon my boss and I are flying to Denver for a meeting tomorrow. Obviously traveling like this before a big race is not ideal, but Denver is a very easy flight (1-hr), plus I will not have to do any driving, so can just sit back and nap. I am essentially taking today "off". I slept in until almost 8AM, then jogged around the block with the dog this morning, and will jog another mile or so this evening in Denver, just to shake out the flight. Wednesday will be 8-9 miles, Thursday will be 5-6 miles, and Friday will be 3 miles. I get back to SLC from Denver around 6PM tomorrow (unless we catch an earlier flight). Rather than waste time and energy driving home (1.5 hours), and then driving back to SLC in the morning, Stacy is going to pick me up at the airport, and we will be staying with Mike K for the night. This makes our 9AM flight on Thursday very very easy, plus I will be able to get a run in before I leave without having to get up early. I think with proper napping, hydration, and diet, the travel will not take much out of me. I think most of "travel fatigue" may just be related to dehydration and poor eating. I've run well after business trips in the past, so am not too concerned. The hardest part about Trials isn't just the race, but also the logistics. There is sooo much to do: check-in, chiropractic, massage, pick up per diem money, technical meetings, fluid bottle drop-off, course tours, shuttle around to and fro, etc., not to mention getting in my nap! I ended up making an hour-by-hour daily schedule spreadsheet that lays out when and where I need to be places. Doing this made my head stop spinning, and definitely made me feel a lot better and more organized going into this big weekend in a huge, unfamiliar city. I suppose if I could run 6 or 8 minutes faster, I would have an agent doing all this for me, but now it's up to me!
PM - ate dinner, and got into our hotel a little bit before 9PM. I went for an easy 1 mile run in the dark, just to shake the legs out. Felt pretty good. It is a very warm night here in Denver. Shorts and a t-shirt were comfortable.
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