First and foremost, another thanks to those who have helped me by donating to the Fisher House Foundation in the past week. Thanks to those who have donated recently:
- Charlie Gander - phenomenal boss at Cycle Dynamics in CT
- Brian Carius - much thanks cousin!
Another week has come and gone, and my first week back stateside has had its ups and downs for training. Unfortunately, something about a 17-hour trip back to the US from Kyrghystan and being back in the US didn't agree with me, and throughout the week I have been fighting a flu that has had me feeling under the weather and coughing. Nevertheless, I have pushed on with training and tried to get back on track. Due to the 14-hour time zone change, and feeling sick, I took Monday off, but tried to make up for it with the rest of the week.
Monday - off (recovery)
Tuesday - 1:21
Wednesday - 1:25
Thursday - 1:33
Friday - 1:01
Saturday - 3:42
Sunday - 1:04 (active recovery)
Total for the week = 606 minutes, or 10 hours, 6 minutes, which translates to about 70-75 miles worth of solid running. Considering I had to take Monday off, this has been a great week for me in my mind.
Importantly, however, this week I added what I am just simply calling my new "playground" of routes. As is much-needed for my Western States preparation, my playground has a ton of new hills thanks to the elevation changes found in parts of Alaska. Fortunately, part of Fort Wainwright's topography has two phenomenal hills for training. I will be looking to incorporate at least one of them in every run to help prep my legs for the "ups and downs" (literally) of Western States in June.
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I'll have some pictures up later this week about these new routes, which are some fun leg-breakers, as well as a post about my new upcoming plan to shamelessly promote myself to corporations in the name of charity. This week I will also look to push back over the 90-minute mark for all of my training runs, as well as boost my long run day again to a higher mark, and get that much closer to distance shape.
Please continue to support my run and donate to the phenomenal Fisher House Foundation!
- Charlie Gander - phenomenal boss at Cycle Dynamics in CT
- Brian Carius - much thanks cousin!
Another week has come and gone, and my first week back stateside has had its ups and downs for training. Unfortunately, something about a 17-hour trip back to the US from Kyrghystan and being back in the US didn't agree with me, and throughout the week I have been fighting a flu that has had me feeling under the weather and coughing. Nevertheless, I have pushed on with training and tried to get back on track. Due to the 14-hour time zone change, and feeling sick, I took Monday off, but tried to make up for it with the rest of the week.
Monday - off (recovery)
Tuesday - 1:21
Wednesday - 1:25
Thursday - 1:33
Friday - 1:01
Saturday - 3:42
Sunday - 1:04 (active recovery)
Total for the week = 606 minutes, or 10 hours, 6 minutes, which translates to about 70-75 miles worth of solid running. Considering I had to take Monday off, this has been a great week for me in my mind.
Importantly, however, this week I added what I am just simply calling my new "playground" of routes. As is much-needed for my Western States preparation, my playground has a ton of new hills thanks to the elevation changes found in parts of Alaska. Fortunately, part of Fort Wainwright's topography has two phenomenal hills for training. I will be looking to incorporate at least one of them in every run to help prep my legs for the "ups and downs" (literally) of Western States in June.
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About two-thirds of the way up Birch Hill back road. You can see the third bit of fun in the distance.
I'll have some pictures up later this week about these new routes, which are some fun leg-breakers, as well as a post about my new upcoming plan to shamelessly promote myself to corporations in the name of charity. This week I will also look to push back over the 90-minute mark for all of my training runs, as well as boost my long run day again to a higher mark, and get that much closer to distance shape.
Please continue to support my run and donate to the phenomenal Fisher House Foundation!
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