Hang Nine

Monday AM - 3 miles w. GW at morning practice
PM - 5 miles, with 6 x 200 on six minute pace

Tuesday - 8 miles, with 2 x 5 minutes at threshold

Wednesday AM - 3 miles w. GW at morning practice
Afternoon - in a light rain with JH and KD, 5 miles.

Went to bed at 7:45.  Woke up at 6:30 but a fitful night of sleep, waking up sweating on occasion - so probably some fever.  

Thursday afternoon - avoided the kids at practice given last night's events, but found the coaches and jogged with them.  9 miles.  Felt pretty good.  

Friday - XC meet at NWOS.  7 miles.

Saturday - AM practice:  9 miles with GW on the Lac Amora loop.  Then up to Summit.  

Sunday - went to the Rox on Sunday.  They are pretty bad.  Didn't get out for a jog until the evening and despite it being EOD, the run went well.  7.5 miles.

56ish on the week.  Some progress.  One month of thinners to go.  

Well, not a week worth speaking of in running terms.  Long work days, high heat and humidity, and just being worked limited miles.  Hardly a training week, so I won't bother posting here the half arsed runs in the DR where it looked like I had gone for a swim more than a run.

I guess in another reality that would have been fine as I'd be resting up for a PPM but there was none of that this year because of the PE issue.  Also was supposed to play a gig with Spare Change on Saturday but COVID for a band member shit canned that too.  

(side note - 3 guys under 2:10 in the PPA is pretty amazing)

The Dominican Republic trip was good from a work perspective.  These trips are educational - both in work but also in seeing other cultures.  Men at night at a table in the street playing dominoes.  Karaoke singers in front of high end restaurants.  Garbage everywhere.  

After a long day to get back (a story unto itself in getting back from the DR) I escaped up to Summit County.  It was good to be back in the thin air, cooler temps, and low humidity.

Sunday I explored up the Ten Mile Creek trail out of Frisco.

Monday AM - hot.  6 miles with the kiddos.  Feeling the band effort from last night.  Yeah.

Tuesday afternoon - still hot.  8 miles with 10 x 100 in the middle over at BHMS.

Wednesday AM - had an athlete that needed to go in the AM so did some work at sub seven pace with them. 5.2 miles.  

Thursday - 8 miles

Friday - 

Saturday - 8 miles at Liberty Bell.  Kids had a blast.  After a few weeks of 80s and 90s, a drop into the 40s and 50s set them up for fast races.  PRs for nearly every kid.

Sunday - Dominican Republic.  Red eye here via Miami so I didn't sleep much.  Got out and it was expectedly hot and humid.  Probably not as bad as Singapore that time.  Certainly not as epic as Dubuque.  The ocean probably helps that.  I could only get five before I relented to no longer swimming in my own sweat.  

The beach playa beauty of the Caribbean was very much offset with ... trash.

Another 50 something mile week.

Certainly thinking about how I am missing Pikes next weekend.  There is thought that I could have gone and done it - as in completed it, and there would have been some accomplishment in that.  But I also know I would have been greatly dissatisfied with such a result.  The loss of the training I had because of the PE's and where I am now ... I am not really to run that the way I'd like to.  I mean, I am nowhere need where I'd like to be but I am really far behind where I was.  It will be a process to get back to some semblance of fitness I was in.  

Monday AM - 3 miles easy with GW at practice.
PM - 5 miles with the coaches easy.

Evening band.

Tuesday - 7 miles with 12 x 1 minute on, 1 minute off.  Hot.  

Played the Broomfield Farmer's Market.

Wednesday AM - 3.1 miles easy at practice

PM - 5 miles

Thursday - sorta dead.  7 miles in the afternoon.

Friday - 7 miles at the Legacy Invite.

Saturday - 7.2 miles at practice.

Gig in the evening at Front Range

Sunday - 8.1 miles with JE (haven't seen him in 30 years?) over at Marshall Mesa.  

Played a charity / memorial event at Broomfield Golf in the evening.  We were pretty tight on this one.  We do better I think when its outdoors, it is a scheduled event, and we are on two sets.  

52 and change on the week.