Hello!

I feel like I just posted last weeks training yesterday.  This week has just flown by with more consistent workouts, ancillary work, and various races I watched or helped out with!  In a brief summary, this week ended up with 102 miles and seven hours of ancillary work!  In addition, I managed to hit a “workout pr” with a 4:36 fifth mile in a series of five mile repeats on Marshall Road. Mile reps 1,3,5 were in this direction, with a slight net downhill.  Still, running a 4:36 at altitude and averaging 4:48 was a great day…not to mention that was only a part of the workout and only five of the 102 miles for the week.  The week had three days of 20+ miles and two “long” runs of 15 each.  Little to say, I’m excited about my fitness for next weekends BAA Half-Marathon and my first race at sea level since moving to altitude.

Elevation of Marshall Road: Max 5510ft and Min 5460ft.

Besides my training, this week was filled with watching competition.  On Friday I went to a high school meet with Estes Park Coach Bill Ruth and cheered on his team.  I’m going to have a post in a few days that highlights Mizuno, since Bill was one of the first Mizuno athletes (also a triathlete ranked 4th in the world at one time) and I’ll be racing the BAA Half in an awesome pair of Mizuno flats that I want to blog about.  Anyway, the high school meet was great and his women’s team won their division.  After the meet, Bill had me untie a shoe in front of the team and parents.  Then, retie the shoe.  Afterwards he gave a speech to the team that I’m no different than them and I tie my shoes the same way they do.  He went on to say how I’m following my dreams and continuing running to try to become the best I can be.  I had chills up my spine listening to him tell this to his team…I was honored and still in somewhat disbelief of how nice that speech was.