This morning I showed up in grey shorts while all my friends were dressed in black and they let me know they're feeling about me breaking from uniform. I didn't think this was a Black Saturday since we didn't have any hill repeats but they were not of the same opinion. Next time we need to have an email consult before our recovery run to determine if the workout warrants all black.:) Steve joined us all the way to Devils Rest but then we parted ways and he headed towards Larch Mountain for more many more miles.
Sunday was a 2 hour run and no threshold. We met for a run on Wildwood trail and hooked up with Jim who is finishing up a "build" week. He was out at Herman Creek yesterday pounding out hill repeats all on his own but Jim is focused and determined so being by himself had little impact on his metal toughness :). Today he had to do a medium long run of about 4 hours so he started early and met us just as we were getting started. We ran up and over Pitock Mansion which is located at mile 3.5 on the Wildwood, it's a beautiful place to take in the views of the city and outlying mountains on a clear day. The Spring gardens at Pitock are in full bloom so we thought this would be a great place for an "ultra running family" photo. Jim and Micheal lead the charge up to Pitock and then we all bolted down the back side where we said goodbye to Jim who headed home. Stacey, Micheal and I turned around and headed 6.25 miles back to our car parked at 53rd ave. Micheal definitely lead us home dragging us with our tongues hanging out of our mouths the whole way! I predict a nice finish at WS100 for him this year, he is getting in stellar shape and moves on the trail really fast.
It was a nice recovery weekend and I feel rebounded and ready for the next phase of training. My hamstring got poked, rubbed and iced for the first part of the week and I can now report it's fine. Thanks for everybody's concerns and advice....I need all the help I can get and it's much appreciated! From January to now I have been on 4 week cycles, Build 1, Build2, Peak, Recovery. I now move to 3 week cycles and am looking forward to it. Next is a Build week and at this point everything gets increased so this weeks Build will be more like my last cycles Peak week. No rest before Miwok 100K, don't want to be real fresh going into the race because it's not my main goal and more like another awesome training day in a race environment.
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Looks like we switched the days! :) I need to find that road, I've heard it before - 5M downhill is a good thing.
Rooster, I like the Pocahontas braids. I did't realize your hair was getting so long.
Anyway, I am curious about your "poking" of the hammies. Did you get acupuncture? I have been thinking about getting that and if you have, am curious about how it feels and what the recovery is like. *tc
Hi Tony,
I did not have acupuncture. I had massage and some kind of laser treatment. The massage was not the nice rub, rub and relax kind. It was the, "can I get a towel to bite on" kind of massage. After that they did some sort of laser treatment that is now better than ultrasound so they said. I have never had laser treatment before but by Thursday I was able to run my Tempo run (9 miles with 4 at 6:50 pace) and just felt a bit sore. From that point on it cured itself. The only acupucture I ever had was for Mononucleosis I seem to get over it faster than anticipated.
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