Doldrums!

Last week’s stats (05/02/08 – 05/08/08)
Running: 33.2 miles (trail 21.1, tmill 6.1, street 6); Stepper 65 min; elliptical 115 min.

While the weather has been terrific for running (not hot!) my enthusiasm level has been sub-par. I’m going to need to adjust the schedule to allow for longer runs—the problem is that if I don’t do a workout in the morning, the job often sucks all my energy later in the day and / or runs overlong into the early evening hours. The next 16 weeks, especially during July, are going to be pretty tough.

I’m hoping that the pressure of the Reno-Tahoe relay (June 5-6) will motivate me in the next few days. There is altitude involved in this relay (which is some 20 mi. shorter than the Calistoga-to-Santa Cruz), but I won’t be taking delivery of my Higher Peak system in time to be fully “acclimated” by 6/5. I am going to be very interested to see if I can discern any real difference in my training as I go along using the machine. My real hope for the Higher Peak system is that it will allow me to actually run more than hike through the TR. Since I don’t yet know the cut-off times for the stages, I continue to worry that I will be too slow.

P.S. Ordered the Higher Peak, Mag-10 on 5/8. ETA is 5/15/08!!