Reset

The reset starts today

Mountain Goat Trail

Got in a much needed 6ish mile trail run this afternoon.  I connected the tricky, rocky part of narrow trail again to the Sunday club trail.  I'm gonna call this the Mountain Goat trail.  It really is too.  It's a lot of fun and treacherous too.  You really have to watch every single step otherwise it could be disaster.  Since I've had trouble tying all the trails together they run on Sundays I ran it backwards today and got in a great 1:20 that I think I'll be able to repeat.

Recoup

Recouped 5 more miles this morning that I wouldn't have had had I done the 50k Saturday.  12 miles recouped so far so I'm feeling a bit less guilty about pussing out.   This morning was made doubly nice because I came very close to NOT getting out of bed.  Misty and I knew neither of us would get a very good nights sleep due to the time change and sure enough we didn't.  After laying there for a few minutes I went ahead and got up.  I sure am glad I did.  I ended up up having a decent run after a not so good run yesterday afternoon.  My knee and my neuroma were both acting up yesterday.  Today both were feeling good.  I'm hoping my knee was better due to getting busy with the foam roller yesterday evening.

7

7 mile loop at LBL in 1:13.  Sluggish, didn't feel to good.  Out of sync.  We bailed out of Prickly Pear this weekend due to the shitty weather.  I can take the cold OR the rain but together.......no thanks.  I'll recoup some of the miles I would have had at the race but not all of them.  Oh well....

46:57

46:57 was my time this morning for the Congress to Mopac loop at LBL.  We got the "running band" back together this morning.  Shan, Steve, Diana, Mark and myself all together again.  In a nutshell I was still the big fat lumbering guy huffing and puffing to keep up, but I made it.  I'm going to use this as a starting point.  That's why I'm posting my time.  Next week should start the barefooting in Zilker with the time change coming this Sunday.  There are most likely NOT going to be very many, if any, people behind me at the Prickly Pear 50k this Saturday in San Antonio.  It's all good though.  I'll be ahead of all the people at home on the couch!!

Almost

Got in an easy 5 at LBL this morning.  Pretty darn proud of myself this morning getting out of bed when the little voices were saying," sleep.....sleep."  I didn't sleep very well and almost didn't get up.  I suspect Misty would not have gotten up to do bootcamp if I had turned over.  It all worked out good though.  I detoured over to Zilker Park and drove the big loop to measure it.  As soon as the time changes I'm going to do some barefoot running around the loop on the grass.  I really think this will help my running.

Great weekend

Had a great weekend of running and walking.  10 miles in 2hrs at LBL Saturday morning and Misty and I got in a great 6 mile hike in the Barton Creek Greenbelt!!

1st Double!!

I'm totally psyched!  Today I pulled off my first double!  Bootcamp in the morning and a 4 mile run after work! Seeing and experiencing the progress is so damn cool!!  I'm really getting March started off on a positive note!!

Buckle

This morning was the only day of bootcamp for me this week but it was a good one.  Lots and lots of lunges and squats.  If I can alternate weeks with 2 days and then 1 day of bootcamp that should be good.  As long as I can maintain some crunches and pushups in the interim I should continue to get stronger.

This month I'm really going to make a serious effort to buckle down and get in some good miles and lay off the beer some.  As I stated in one of my early posts in January my goal is to maintain 93 miles per month this year. If I can do that, that will bring my the yearly totals for 2010, 2011 and 2102 all up to a 20 mile per week average.  This month I fucked away a lot of days being hung over so I fell short.  Thankfully January was good so I've only got to get 106 miles this month to get my average back up.

I not only need to put down the beers for the sake of cutting down but I've got 4 upcoming events I need to get ready for.  Prickly Pear 50k next weekend ( I guess about the best thing I can do to get ready for that now is to not drink between now and then).  April 7 is Hells Hills 50k in Smithville which I still have a chance to get reasonably ready for.  Pandora's Box trail marathon is in Burnet on May 3 and then a double out and back (30 miles) on the Barton Creek Greenbelt the very next weekend!!!

Then, a decent rest period the last half of May thru the first half of June and that will leave me 18-19 weeks to focus on getting ready for the Cactus Rose 100 mile Oct 27th.

Time to buckle down!!!