RECAP : May 28 - June 3

--- Monday - 05/28/12 --- (Memorial Day!)


Pineridge - 40:20


One loop around Pineridge starting from the Spring canyon dog park.





--- Tuesday - 05/29/12 ---


Foothills Trail (medium loop) - 38:10


Starting from Maxwell TH.




--- Wednesday - 05/30/12 ---


 Foothills Trail (long loop ) -- (10 easy / 10 hard..etc) + easy 13 minutes on Pineridge


Starting from Maxwell TH I ran a planned fartlek --10 minutes easy, 10 minutes hard along the Foothills Trail (long loop) -- for 50 minutes.  After getting back to the trailhead I tacked on an easy short loop in Pineridge to hit the 1 hour mark.

Was planning on hitting both the track and the trails today, but had no time for 2 workouts. So I combined the both into an up tempo fartlek trail run.

Total Time : 63:17






--- Thursday - 05/31/12 ---


2 Laps of Pineridge - 62:08


Started from Maxwell TH. Felt good today.





--- Friday - 06/01/12 ---


Foothills Trail (short loop) - 32:12


Easy effort up the hill. Legs felt really solid today.




--- Saturday - 06/02/12 ---


COURTING TOWERS 12.5 MILE TRAIL RACE - 2ND PLACE - 1:45:42


Horsetooth Mountain Park

RACE REPORT!






--- Sunday - 06/03/12 ---


Easy recovery run in the PM - 35:00


Easy run around town. Late night, started run at 9:45pm.  easy effort all the way.  Felt good.


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Registered for the Courting Towers  12.5 mile trail race up at Horsetooth Mountain park last minute. (like 9pm Friday night).  Was debating to run that one or the Sierras 5k race down in Loveland, as I had some friends running in that one as well.  But decided to stick to the trails, as I figured this race would be a good estimator of my current recovery status from the 50 miler 3 weeks ago.  Training up to this point has been hit or miss since I have been in recovery mode and so a good hard push on some dirt is what I needed to get a better feel for how my recovery is coming along. Here is my Courting Towers RACE REPORT.

All in all, a good week of running --- weather in Colorado is beautiful (and getting hot!) this time of year.

Planning on running the Fathers Day 5k in a few weeks.  So time to hit the track for some fast up tempo stuff in the next week or so!  Curious to know what I can run a 5k in these days on nothing but trail running and whatever track stuff I get in in the next 2 weeks or so.

Hopefully sometime  in the next few weeks  I can get in a run up in RMNP or on Barr Trail (Pikes Peak)  -- both solid places for easy vertical gain and awesome trail running!