Sunday, July 3

[Arrojo]

Well, my sprint season ended before it had barely begun with a strained groin in the 50m at our all comers track meet. Of more concern is that I think it may be related to my left (good) hip needing an artificial one. I will be contacting the great Dr Su of HSS in NYC next week to look at my x-rays.


I’m still able to sprint at 75%, and was able to leg out two triples at senior softball on Thursday. But since I can’t sprint competitively right now I’m switching back to distance running and hope to do a 10K in August.


Today: 3.5 miles, very hot, 75°

[DrT(weekendwrAcur)]

Well, my sprint season ended before it had barely begun with a strained groin in the 50m at our all comers track meet. Of more concern is that I think it may be related to my left (good) hip needing an artificial one. I will be contacting the great Dr Su of HSS in NYC next week to look at my x-rays.


I’m still able to sprint at 75%, and was able to leg out two triples at senior softball on Thursday. But since I can’t sprint competitively right now I’m switching back to distance running and hope to do a 10K in August.


Today: 3.5 miles, very hot, 75°

Doh! Hope you can get it fixed one way or another. Go easy on it in the meantime!!!

[DrT(weekendwrAcur)]

This may get long, but the short version is:

14.27km, 1200m elev gain.
26*C and 86%RH at the start.
4 hours later it was up to 33*C

Longer version:

Went out to meet up with a group that regularly meets for hill repeats (I’m “mostly” a solo runner but I’ve been trying to find more groups lately to help keep my training on track).

I’d never run at this park located 40 minutes from my house, but I had mountain biked there many times. I’d seen the steep 12-20+% rocky climb where the runners do their hill repeats. Not part of the bike route, but I was suitably impressed.

At 15.4% average grade, I surmised this would be most excellent training for the steep schtuff heading up Pikes Peak (where the first 3.5k averages almost 14%)

And it did not disappoint in that challenge. I planned a workout of 15 hill repeats, hoping for at least 750m total elevation, not certain of the exact amount gained per interval. My target race in two week (Barr Trail Mountain Race) includes 1000m of ascent.

I had some ambitious goals for pace (did not reach) power (could not measure) and heart rate (mostly did not reach)… but what I was pleased with was my ability to “keep going” and extend to 20 repeats (when I found out three of the other runners were planning on 20 or more!)

So it was a very successful training day, and met some new running friends.

I did have another disappointment with my Stryd power meter (which I’ve been super happy with for almost two years, until it started flaking on me last week).
I’m working on a theory that it has issues on extremely humid days. Hope to get the problem isolated and fixed before my race in two weeks. If that’s the issue, then my chances in dry Colorado should be a lot better than hot&humid Texas (although I was in Colorado when I first started having this issue)

Ok thx for reading, will try to keep these shorter, at least between now and the race in two weeks!

[Arrojo]

Impressive work out there DrT. So you are actually racing Pikes Peek in two weeks? Good luck with that. Shouldn’t you be starting to taper about now? I ran Mount Washington twice, that was enough.

[DrT(weekendwrAcur)]

Impressive work out there DrT. So you are actually racing Pikes Peek in two weeks? Good luck with that. Shouldn’t you be starting to taper about now? I ran Mount Washington twice, that was enough.

Thx… yes. Looking forward to it!

About that taper, I normally would plan a two week taper for any “A” level race. I have planned this one as a “B” race, and for me that means I will be tapering but I’m experimenting with pushing though my training to one last long run 6 days prior to race day.

I am relatively new to distance running and still finding what “works for me”, but most of my events in the last 18 months have seen me hit the wall at some point, I think mostly due to lack of sufficient training volume. (And other factors like health or pushing my boundaries of progressively longer race distances)

So, no, I can’t make up for missed April training in the last two weeks, but I can make sure I can handle a 2:30-3:00 run before I go race one.

That said, I think you just talked me out of making that last long training run next week a 2:30 run. I am going to essentially cut it in half because I’ve already proven in the last couple weeks that I can handle the run duration.

Mt Washington is gorgeous and I’ve done the bike road race up it multiple times, and mountain biked there as well. Would love to run up it sometime. At least once!!!