Because of my travel for work (up until last Thursday) I have been feeling way under trained mentally. Even though I've been regularly hitting 80 myles a week and an occasional race, I didn't feel the focus I needed to have a great race in June. That was until Thursday. Friday, Saturday, and today have been a different story - a total of 70 myles and nearly 13K of climbing. Nothing like this guy or this guy but I feel I'm back on track to have a good race. I'm not done yet, I plan on having a 10 day period of this kind of work and then straight into a proper taper leading up to the race. The nice thing about WS is that there are so many good runners I have flown under the radar with mediocre results thus far this season. No expectations on my part and no pressure to perform.... mmm, I take that back. There is the Montrail Ultra Cup in which I am in contention. Right now it's a 3 man race for 1st between Mackey, Olmstead, and myself. $5K for 1st, $2K for 2nd, and $1K for 3rd. Mackey has been unstoppable lately, while I've been faltering late in races, and he is only 0.07 pts behind me. Tall order I know but it is 100 myles and anything can happen.
At any rate, I hope to be posting more frequently as the build up to WS begins. Here is my most recent week:
Monday - 7.2 myles Belle Island Richmond, VA
Tuesday - 4 myles VCU Richmond, VA
Wednesday - 6.2 myles Richmond, VA
Thursday - Travel
Friday - AM 15 myles Deer Creek
Saturday - 18.4 myles Longs Ranch Road
Sunday - 30 myles HR Tour De Trails
Total - 87 myles, 12hr 32 mins, 13,123 ft of climbing
8 comments:
nice to have you back...hope you can keep up the good runs before BIG JUAN...which I might add is just around the corner....have a great week...
Sounds like you are on track for a good run in a few weeks...see you in a couple weeks in squaw.
Well, at least you have Mariott Gold status.
Not under my radar!
When I saw "this guy" and "that guy", I was hoping you werent' talking about me, but I then remembered, I'm not running WS. :-)
the course at WS is good for you, you'll have a good race, it's only 100 miles. Never second guess yourself in a race that far. Lots of guys are in it and don't even know it yet.
Scott- did you get my email from flyin' Brian? If you need help at WS let me know, I have the time. Yes? No? Don't leave me hangin'....
bdiesel29er@gmail
Scott - good to meet you at Miwok. Because Montrail only counts the top 4 races and we can assume that WS will be one of the 4 I will toss out my JFK and you will toss out your AR. So if we assume we have a winning time of 15:30 at WS that means Dave has about a 7hr lead, I'm only about 20 min ahead, and Tim Olson is only about 2hr behind us.
I hope your last 3 weeks go well, and I look forward to seeing you in Squaw.
hey Dan. Hope all is well with you.
After I posted last week I read on Mackey's blog that all he had to do is finish WS to win the Montrail cup. I then decided to actually read the rules and you are exactly right. I calculated a 15 hr finish for the winner which would give you about a 25 minute lead or so. It will be fun, especially with all the snow!
See you soon
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