A quick tallying of the numbers: April Totals:-Miles: 673-Hours: 101h 19min-Vertical: 120,400′-Green: 35-Bear: 5-SoBo: 2-Days off: 0 2010 Totals (Day 120)-Miles: 2209-Hours: 329h 50min-Vertical: 406,900′-Green: 133-Bear: 7-SoBo: 2-Days off: 0 April was obviously an excellent month of running. My right knee held together all month even…
This morning was my final ascent of Green Mt before taking it easy these last few days leading into Miwok this weekend. Mother Nature, though, made sure to make it a scenic one. Last night Jocelyn and I were sequestered in the CU Law Library–she…
04-19-2010Mon-AM: 16 miles (2:25) Green Mt., up Back down Bear Cyn, 3000′Very easy, relaxed effort; ended with a mile of barefoot.PM: 8 miles (1:02) McClintock-Mesa-Kitt w/ Jocelyn, 1000′Ran 3mi of barefoot at the end. 04-20-2010Tue-AM: 16 miles (2:20) Green Mt., up Back down Bear Cyn,…
I was up and out the door at 5:30 this morning so that I could complete a tour of the local peaks before class. A dense layer of grey clouds formed a dreary, low blanket over Boulder, but based on yesterday morning’s run, I knew that…
04-12-2010Mon-AM: 15 miles (2:19) Green Mt. up Back down Bear Cyn, 3000′Started really slow with Jocelyn and Martin. Felt better by the end.PM: 8 miles (1:04) Creek Path+4mi barefoot at Kitt 04-13-2010Tue-AM: 15 miles (2:12) Green Mt. up Front down Bear Cyn, 3000′Climbed in 35:50…
(Green, stuck in the clouds today.) “Damn, dude, you’re killin’ it! Two laps today?” This man was noticing that we’d already passed each other once on the Gregory Canyon trail, maybe twenty minutes earlier. “This is four, actually.” “Four?!?!” Of course, seeing as I was about a…
The 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose is partly located in what I feel to be my second home of Leadville, CO. (Of all the “second homes” that exist in and around the Leadville region, I would bet that mine is likely…
Saturday marked the 100th day of 2010, so it is appropriate that this weekend has contained some running that has allowed me to take stock of my fitness and preparedness for racing. On Saturday I continued my progression of the weekly long run with a…
I awoke this morning to a layer of fresh snow reflecting the rising sun in through the bedroom window. I wasn’t really expecting that. Jocelyn, with her SoCal roots, sees this sort of thing and rolls over in bed. (Not that this makes Jocelyn a…
03-29-2010Mon-AM: 14 miles (2:06) Green Mt., up Front down Greenman, 2800′ Up in an easy effort 35:45. Pretty soft, punchy trail conditions. Finished up with 2.5 miles barefoot at Kitt Fields. PM: 13 miles (2:02) Green Mt….
