Today's run was a massive team-steam-roll. Yesterday's easy 6 miler to kick-start a recovery from this bitch of a sinus cold was fantastic. So I thought today I'd get out on the trail for more.
Between not taking water, this very dry warm weather, my cold and the fucking rattle snake I should have stepped-on and having not stepped on it, it should have bitten me but for the little bush that prevented it from a quick coil and strike (holy shit!) I was utterly wiped-out by this little 10 miler with 2600ft. of climbing. I mean crushed. I had a cherry slushy afterward. Unreal.
More work the rest of this week. Going to finish strong. Let's do this.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Monday
Great run on Sunday all things considered. The cold was coming on, still got in 13 solid miles moving smoothly with no energy and now the cold is here. Wife took the day off cuz she's down and out and we basically spent the whole day hanging-out, doing some errands, lunch. It was fantastic. We walked probably 3 miles, mostly in beautifully warm sunlight which I think helped the healing process. Even if I'm not healthy enough to hit the trail tomorrow, I'll still be running somewhere, sweating this bad boy out.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Saturday and some Good Ale
I lazed around all day while wife did errands, and kid tried to give me whatever he's got. . . and I think I'm getting it. Sat around longer than I had to because I got kinda into the Rocky Raccoon 100 and the XC nationals which had a killer web-cast.
Did I feel a little like a slob sitting around on my computer? Pretty much. And I have a little sore throat now. But The RR100 turned-out to be pretty incredible. Colorado seems like the American ultra capital (I guess this perception is as much a product of the blogosphere as anything). And in the last year or so Alaska stole some thunder and then today a Brit living in the Bay Area (I think) did a nice little smack-down. In the end, this Brit Ian Sharman (I think's his name) averaged 7:38 pace for 100 miles.
I snuck out for a late day run. 6 miles, 1600ft. of vert. I basically hiked 3 miles and ran 3 miles. HR avg. 133. Feel a little better, but we'll see tomorrow. I need to go big.
Getting a run in this morning would have been great but I was a little groggy. I only had 3 beers and a glass a win last night, but they were fine.
Cruised by Toronado which is a beer lovers beer joint. I had a pint of Firestone Walker Double Jack. I've been craving a solid DIPA. This one did it. My second beer (I was only having 2 at Toronado) was going to be a Stone IPA Double Dry Hopped. The keg had just gone dry. Damn.
I could have had a Pliny the Elder or a Ballast Point Sculpin. But I wanted something a little more, perhaps going against what I said the other day: stick with what you like. Well, I do like Stone Arrogant Bastard. It is a solid strong ale, great label, and when you can pick-up a 22 bomb of it for around $3 -4, I'll take that over a lot of "prettier" beers. So, Toronado had an Arrogant Bastard that had been aged in oak on cask. I went in. Cask beers of course have a lot less carbonation, but then the wood always gives the beer some additional flavors. This was just plain creamy. I loved it.
And then I was off. Ended-up meeting some people at another place. I was already buzzed. So I took it easy. I had a glass of Spanish red wine, and then ordered a Racer 5 draft. Yum and done.
Did I feel a little like a slob sitting around on my computer? Pretty much. And I have a little sore throat now. But The RR100 turned-out to be pretty incredible. Colorado seems like the American ultra capital (I guess this perception is as much a product of the blogosphere as anything). And in the last year or so Alaska stole some thunder and then today a Brit living in the Bay Area (I think) did a nice little smack-down. In the end, this Brit Ian Sharman (I think's his name) averaged 7:38 pace for 100 miles.
I snuck out for a late day run. 6 miles, 1600ft. of vert. I basically hiked 3 miles and ran 3 miles. HR avg. 133. Feel a little better, but we'll see tomorrow. I need to go big.
Getting a run in this morning would have been great but I was a little groggy. I only had 3 beers and a glass a win last night, but they were fine.
Cruised by Toronado which is a beer lovers beer joint. I had a pint of Firestone Walker Double Jack. I've been craving a solid DIPA. This one did it. My second beer (I was only having 2 at Toronado) was going to be a Stone IPA Double Dry Hopped. The keg had just gone dry. Damn.
I could have had a Pliny the Elder or a Ballast Point Sculpin. But I wanted something a little more, perhaps going against what I said the other day: stick with what you like. Well, I do like Stone Arrogant Bastard. It is a solid strong ale, great label, and when you can pick-up a 22 bomb of it for around $3 -4, I'll take that over a lot of "prettier" beers. So, Toronado had an Arrogant Bastard that had been aged in oak on cask. I went in. Cask beers of course have a lot less carbonation, but then the wood always gives the beer some additional flavors. This was just plain creamy. I loved it.
And then I was off. Ended-up meeting some people at another place. I was already buzzed. So I took it easy. I had a glass of Spanish red wine, and then ordered a Racer 5 draft. Yum and done.
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