Friday, 5 am. Normally I’d be rolling out of bed in another 15 or 20 minutes. But this day I was already at the trailhead and gearing up to run and to try something I’d never attempted before. 2020 threw …
Category: Training
Ironman Challenges
I am now in the true beginnings of training for my Ironman, which I will compete in July 25th, 2020, in Santa Rosa, CA. In case anyone isn’t familiar with triathlon events, a full Ironman race is a 2.4 mile …
Into the Taper.
The Volcanic 50k is less than two weeks away, and I’m scared as hell. The ten day forcasts are just touching race day now, and it’s not to my liking but it’s not terrible. Looks like it’s currently predicted to …
Just wanna have fun.
I had been waiting until we finished our 50K to set goals for the rest of the year. That didn’t really stop new races from being added though 😅 Fort Ebey was a challenging day, and in less than 3 …
Tapering, and a New Race!
Well, it’s about 10 days until our ultra, and we’re officially in the taper. We did 17.5 miles on slush, snow, and ice for our last really long run. Now we just have a nice little 8-10 miler this weekend …
Anxiety du Jour.
We’ve been really good with our training. Well, except for bailing on the second long runs. I just don’t recover enough to do them. But I’ve been getting the weekday runs, and the long run in. We’ve done our three …
Three Weeks to Race Day: Gut Check.
Yesterday marked 3 weeks until the big day, the Fragrance Lake 50K in Bellingham, WA. It was also the 3rd of 3 long runs at 20+ miles for this training cycle. We decided to head up to Bellingham and run …
Success! And Thoughts on Failure.
Wow! The big weeks went by fast. I learned so much. First of all, we got all the big days in. On January 5th, it was 18 miles on Squak Mountain with 5,000′ of gain: Then, on January 12th, we …
The Big Training Weeks.
This weekend is the beginning of our three biggest training weeks of the race prep. Saturday we have 18 miles, Sunday we have 11. For the 18, I’ve mapped out a 9-mile loop on Squak Mountain, which we’ll do twice …
Trip Report: Tiger Mountain – Tradition Plateau to Poo Poo Point.
The last week of December was a deep cutback week in our training plan, although we did an 8-mile trail race Sunday (recap to come). But the weekend before Christmas was our biggest yet, with 23-24 miles total split …
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Boundary Conditions 