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January 15, 2007
Week of January 15th
(Day 1, Sunday 1- 1:45 hilly and easy, in my neighborhood)
Monday- 1. 1:25 snowshoe running with 50 minutes tempo effort on rolling terrain, Upper Terraces Loop and the snowmobile road; 2. yoga 45 minutes; 3. core
Tuesday- 1. 1:45 hilly and kinda-easy (see below), Old Gardiner Road; 2. yoga 45 minutes; 3. CrossFit workout
Wednesday- 1. 1:15 hilly and easy, around my neighborhood; 2. cross country skiing (Yeah, finally!) 1:30-ish hilly and very easy, Blacktail Plateau Drive; 3. core
Thursday- 1. 1:00 easy and hilly snowshoe running, Upper Terraces Loop and snowmobile road; 2. CrossFit workout
Friday- pure, joyous, unadulterated rest from running; 1. CrossFit; 2. core
Saturday- Capitol Peak Mega Fat Ass 34 mile race, 6:52
Sunday- 20 minute shake-out run, Victor, ID
(Day 9, Monday- 1:45 easy and hilly, Horseshoe Canyon near Driggs, ID)
This week is part of a 9-day block of training, the final training push. I'm going to list the whole 9-day she-bang here in this week so I can see how the 9 days pan out on "paper."
The 9-day schedule (all layed out because it's mostly unchangeable):
Sunday- 1:45 hilly and easy
Monday- 1. 1:30 hilly snowshoeing with 45 minute workout; 2. yoga 45 minutes; 3. core
Tuesday- 1. 1:45 hours hilly and easy (snowshoeing or running); 2. CrossFit workout
Wednesday- 1. 1:15 hilly and easy; 2. cross country skiing (Hopefully! I'm trying to work this into the already tight schedule for the week. ); 3. yoga 45 minutes; 4. core
Thursday- 1. 1:00 hilly and easy; 2. CrossFit workout 3. yoga 45 minutes
Friday- rest running; 1. CrossFit workout; 2. core (fly to Portland, OR)
Saturday- 34 mile race in Olympia, WA
Sunday- 2-3 hour (depending on how I feel after racing) trail run in to be determined location in Portland, OR (fly home)
Monday- 1:45 hilly and easy
9-day hours on-trail goal: 17:00+
This week's hours-on-trail goal: 13:30+
Tuesday's run was supposed to be nice and easy through somewhat hilly terrain. This route has about 1500 feet elevation gain seperated into 1 long (about 40 minutes) and 1 short (12-ish minutes) climb. It's pretty snow-covered right now. As a result of the high winds last week, the snow has been sorted into huge snow drifts and bare patches of dirt. The snow drifts are knee-deep and exhausting to trudge through, but the bare dirt feels SO good underfoot. I tried my hardest not to push my pace on that bare dirt, even though my body really, really wanted to move. I let myself get amped up for a little while here and there, just to satiate the speed demons inside me. I did yoga today, too, because I feel pretty tight. It's amazing what that does for me.
Wednesday's Phrase of the Day: Feed Me! (I'm so hungry. Like, all the time.)
In the end of this week and this 9-day training stint, I didn't make it to my time goals. Our flights home from the race in Washington were majorly screwed up, so they prevented us from getting in Sunday's trail run. At the time, I was disappointed. My legs were feeling really good after Saturday's race, and I really wanted to test the legs out underfoot. Now, I'm slightly less disappointed, as I think the week turned out well and there is nothing I can really do about fubared airplane travel.
Posted by Meghan at January 15, 2007 3:28 AM
Comments
That is a whole heck of a lot of running! Good luck with the training and of course your race Saturday. Can't wait to hear about it!
Posted by: Beth at January 16, 2007 6:40 PM
That's some awesome training, Meghan! And it is great you're coming our neck of the woods next Sat! Too bad this will be my first time to miss out going to CPFA, I ran it and volunteered it both twice. You'll have fun, just prepare for freezing snow/rain:)
Posted by: olga at January 16, 2007 7:06 PM
The upcoming race sounds great and the entire 9 day training plans looks very good. You are in terrific shape. I am still in awe of all of the snowshoe running that you can do and the fact that you can run so much in the cold weather. I am looking forward to hearing about your last week of tough training and your race reprot. Good Luck and keep up the great training.
Posted by: Mary at January 16, 2007 7:56 PM