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Me climbing Ball Moutain (I’m the one on the left.) Note Mosquito Pass winding up the mountain in the background. We climbed that… You can click to enlarge the photo. On Saturday, I barely went sub-5 in a marathon, yet I was more proud of that result than the times I’ve gone sub-3. I [...] I’d been putting off looking into the details of tomorrow’s trail marathon until the last possible moment. I guess that was my way of avoiding the stress that knowing the course would bring. This morning, with the race less than 24 hours away, I figured I finally needed to quit putting it off. The [...] I’m sitting here, sipping some coffee with whiskey and trying to warm up from the final run in what has been an amazingly good week. At 61.4 miles, it wasn’t a particularly high volume week, and the 8:03 overall average pace certainly is nothing to write home about. So why so I say [...] Yesterday morning, I ran the Bolder Boulder for the fifth time. A little less than an hour after finishing, I ran it for the sixth time. And that wasn’t even the best running day of the trip. My plan had been to take it easy out here and recover from the marathon, [...] My running here in Colorado hasn’t gone exactly as planned. I took Thursday off, but was feeling good on Friday and wanted to see if the elevation would really hinder my running as much as everyone said it would. It did. I ran just over four miles at an appalling 7:20 pace [...] |
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