Sunday April 14th

[Fast Eddie]

Worked a morning 5K/10K race set up. Rained during the set up, but for fortunately it stopped just in time for the first race to start, and we dried out pretty much by race end.


Packed up my stuff, drove home, made lunch, took a nap, and then went out for my run. Still glorious out, sunny and 65°F for 23.1K.

[Loco Coyote]

I did an insane double yesterday.

AM 9.8 miles with an 8 mile progression from marathon pace to maybe 20K race effort (goal was 15K pace but I couldn't hit that until the very end). Toward the end I stopped for about 20 seconds because a snake was on the trail, and had to stop and think red touches black good for jack (opposed to red touches yellow kill a fellow). It was a scarlet king snake (non-poisonous). But WTF? In Colorado? These are native to the SE United States. Someone must have let it go and it's trying to survive here.


Then in the afternoon (hot 80 degrees) I did 6.5 miles with a 5K tempo followed by 7X 1 minute hill reps. Oops. That 5K was supposed to be moderate (80-90% of marathon pace), not 80-90% of 5K pace. So I overdid it and got in an inadvertent double-threshold workout (all the rage if you follow elite distance running/the Norwegian system).