As I mentioned previously, I'm trying to do more trail running - i DO live in Colorado after all!
Today was a day off for me so I quickly took to the hills and ran at an open space (i.e. pretty and free) park here.
It was a glorious morning so i was up there at about 10 am and ran for an hour and 10 minutes over 7.5 miles and something like a gain of 1800 feet or so maybe.
I highly recommend it. Getting up to the top without stopping was a pretty good challenge but well worth it when i sat on a boulder at the top of the highest trail (which used to be the top of a ski run evidently!). Beautiful views of the continental divide and such.
No, i don't plan on posting daily but as I get started here I probably will post daily at the outset.
Running today: 7.5 miles
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
I'm back! Training Again!
that's right!
I'm back and planning to run in a few marathons this year.
I'm much healthier nowadays, given my injury-laden past, and am logging long miles with the best of them.
This year I am concentrating on the Boulder (September) and Denver (October) Marathons with an outside chance that I'll also get to do the disneyworld marathon or goofy challenge (a half marathon one day and a marathon the next) in January 2010.
I'm also trying to find my way into trail running races this year. My first one was rained out this last Saturday so I'm a little dejected about that....
I started my race season this year in the first week of April at the Platte River Half Marathon and posted a 2:05.. again, dejected but whatever, it was my first race of the year.
I then did the Cherry Creek Sneak 5k (while my wife did the 5 miler and my 2 older kids did the kids 1.6 mile).
Then I did a 10k in the neighborhoods near me... eesh, the damned hills!
My next race is this Saturday and is the Slacker Half Marathon running from the Loveland Ski Area (10,500 feet on the continental divide) down to Georgetown, CO (about 2,000 feet lower in altitude) and hope for a sub-2-hour performance.
I just started my training for the marathon season this year (last week) and am basing my training off the hardest training plan "Advanced Marathoner B" on the NYC Marathon site here: http://ingnycmarathon.com/training/training_schedule.htm
I look forward to keeping you all up-to-date with my various musings on my fun and occasional mishaps along the way towards my marathon this year.
Running Today: 6 miles in the morning, 2 miles in the afternoon
I'm back and planning to run in a few marathons this year.
I'm much healthier nowadays, given my injury-laden past, and am logging long miles with the best of them.
This year I am concentrating on the Boulder (September) and Denver (October) Marathons with an outside chance that I'll also get to do the disneyworld marathon or goofy challenge (a half marathon one day and a marathon the next) in January 2010.
I'm also trying to find my way into trail running races this year. My first one was rained out this last Saturday so I'm a little dejected about that....
I started my race season this year in the first week of April at the Platte River Half Marathon and posted a 2:05.. again, dejected but whatever, it was my first race of the year.
I then did the Cherry Creek Sneak 5k (while my wife did the 5 miler and my 2 older kids did the kids 1.6 mile).
Then I did a 10k in the neighborhoods near me... eesh, the damned hills!
My next race is this Saturday and is the Slacker Half Marathon running from the Loveland Ski Area (10,500 feet on the continental divide) down to Georgetown, CO (about 2,000 feet lower in altitude) and hope for a sub-2-hour performance.
I just started my training for the marathon season this year (last week) and am basing my training off the hardest training plan "Advanced Marathoner B" on the NYC Marathon site here: http://ingnycmarathon.com/training/training_schedule.htm
I look forward to keeping you all up-to-date with my various musings on my fun and occasional mishaps along the way towards my marathon this year.
Running Today: 6 miles in the morning, 2 miles in the afternoon
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