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January 2, 2007
Week of January 1st
Monday- 1. 45 minutes easy and flat, my neighborhood in the dark; 2. CrossFit workout; 3. yoga 45 minutes; 4. core
Tuesday- 1. 1:25 hilly and easy, Eagle Creek Road; 2. CrossFit
Wednesday- 1. 1:10 snowshoeing inclusive of about a 30 minute hill workout, Bunsen Peak Road; 2. core
Thursday- 1:10 combination of running and snowshoe running, Horseshoe Canyon near Driggs, ID
Friday- 1. 1:30 easy and flat, farm roads near Victor, ID; 2. yoga 45 minutes; 3. core
Saturday- 2:30 hilly snowshoe running, Darby Canyon near Driggs, ID
Sunday- 4:10 hilly snowshoe running, North Leigh Canyon, near Driggs, ID
This week's goals:
1. between 11:30 and 12:15 on trail running, concentrated in a big weekend
2. yoga 3 times
3. core 3 times
4. CrossFit workout 3 times
5. manage still-healing leg appropriately
It's Tuesday and my leg is a happy camper! I think all it needed was to be home sweet home out on the the snow and trails again. I am so happy! I'm still going to be nice to it for another day or so, though. I'm moving my hill workout to later in the week to give my leg an extra few days to heal.
I didn't mean for Wednesday's snowshoe run to turn into a workout, but it did. The original plan was for a nice, easy, lovely, afternoon showshoe run. It's 3.5-ish miles and at least 1000 feet elevation gain from the trailhead that I began at to another trail junction. As soon as I started running, I just felt good. I think I subconsciously picked up the pace a little bit, and I still felt good. The first half mile of the trail is rolling, and then it just climbs. By the time I hit the full-on climbing, I was into a tempo effort. I just climbed, and climbed, and worked hard. It took me almost exactly 30 minutes from the bottom of the climb to reach the trail junction at the top, a distance of no more than 3 miles. Yes, I was snowshoe running (uphill) at 10 minute/mile pace, and it felt like a tempo effort. I can't tell if I should be embarassed or proud. Whatever the case, it was a hella workout. When I reached the top, I ran on for a bit longer, then turned around and ran back to the trailhead. By the time I reached my car, my legs were jelly, with the hard climb up and then the downhill pounding. I hope this has no negative affect on my leg, as I didn't mean to do a workout today.
Well, I accomplished most of this week's goals. I fell short on 1 CrossFit workout and 1 yoga workout. Aside from that, I accomplished everything, including the big weekend that was planned. The biggest accomplishment: 12:40 of running! For me, and including a bunch of slow snowshoe running, that's about an 85 mile week. I couldn't be more pleased.
Posted by Meghan at January 2, 2007 12:20 AM