Tomorrow I'm headed up to the San Juan Islands for the Orcas Island 50k. It'll be my first 50k of the season, and I'm really just treating it as a long training run. It'll provide a good marker of where my current fitness level is. Last year, by this time, I had raced a 1/2 marathon, 25k, and a 50k all during January. I had a decent run at Orcas, but I was already feeling a little worn out. This year I've taken, what I hope is, a much smarter training approach. I've got 7 weeks of solid base training under my belt,with no racing, and I'm feeling like I'm getting stronger each week. Obviously it feels great to see marked improvement each week, as opposed to this time last year, when I was already feeling a little run down. So I'm excited to see how things shake out tomorrow. The weather's looking good, and I really love the trails at Moran State Park. It should be a great day out there. I'll get a report up here when I return to Seattle.
Here's a quick recap of my 2008 training log
wk 1: 64 miles
wk 2: 74 miles
wk 3: 80 miles
wk 4: 53 miles (recovery)
wk 5: 76 miles
wk 6: 80 miles
wk 7: 92 miles
wk 8: recovery
Saturday, February 16, 2008
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2 comments:
you have my vote for the win! too bad the snow has made james alter the course, 2,000ft less elveation gain. much more runnable now.. oh well.
see you out there brian and good luck!
Matt-I appreciate your vote of confidence, but I'm really just using it as a training run. If I win, it'll be as part of a bigger group. It should be a lot of fun. See you out there.
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