Mick A lot of the prices went up when the resorts started being bought out by the company owning lots of fancy resorts in Colorado. It's worth it. I just wouldn't go at Christmas time. I'd go before or after and avoid the crowds of tourists and visitors. Oh yeah....a season pass usually goes on sale during spring or summer. They start at $400 so it might actually SAVE you money to buy one before you show up. Just check the blackout days for the cheap passes. Typically it is all holiday weekends.

Piwi It's 4.5 hours from KT 22 to Mavricks. Why not do both in the same day?  California is the greatest state in the Nation. I tried to learn how to surf. On a 6' short board. With no one helping me. Decided it wasn't for me because I didn't want to get up and drive to the ocean for morning waves. This was a summer during college. I also didn't like surfers all that much, but I really liked the ocean and waves. Dad bought me a subscription to SURFER magazine (I know...dating myself) in college and I'd put up photos of the waves in my dorm. Never know how much you miss something until it's gone.

I might just run the course, mark some turns to the best of my ability, put it on Strava and see how many people run the course the weekend of. Just means I need to get out there maybe the week of or weekend before for a measured 5k and possibly put a cone in a specific turn lane. Ideally the race organizers wouldn't get busted for someone spray painting the road.

James nice mileage. Sorry that you are still experiencing niggles.

Piwi you gotta go back out for those 800m man! Nice week you rock!

Hell of a week Piwi.

James - good to see the continued progress!  I think the details of the treadmill running matter less than the fact that you are getting it done.  I'm also not a fan of using the treadmill for mental toughness training - I think that if you are getting the work done, that is enough mental training.

Piwi - that was a fast tempo.  I find it hard to believe one could tempo 6K straight at 10K pace, so your 10K pace may be faster!

Marky_Mark - nice to see things hitting a groove for you.

Steve - very interesting on the stools helping with the knee pain.

Mark I like how you get your week done on 5 runs but at a good clip. Back to your lower mileage and higher intensity works well for you. Did you see the Potts Classic 3000m ?

Steve good to see you back running again. Christchurch has some hot days.

Darkwave nice longrun today on strava !

I think I could run a 10k at about 3.50/km but I need to do a time trial to confirm. So my so called tempo is too fast. I have done the last couple at 4.05/km which is likely half pace.

Flavio nice week keep up the good work.

Flavio - subconsciously protecting yourself from the landing makes a LOT of sense.

 

 

Darkwave nice longrun today on strava !

Thanks - I actually wasn't terribly happy with it.  Just one of those runs where you never feel great.  The last 2 miles were hard - partly because I'm not in great shape and it's been a full year since I've run that far; partly because I was overdressed; partly because I underdid the gels.

Hopefully my fitness will start to turn in the next few weeks - when things are stalling it's sometimes hard to know whether to back off or hold the course.  I think that I'm going to give it another week or two and see if I break through this plateau.

My week:

69 miles, 1500 yards swimming, and 1:40 hours of pool-running
M: 12 miles including a track workout of 2x1200, 2x800, 2x400, 4x200 in 4:41, 4:40, 3:07, 3:06, 90, 89, 43, 44, 43, 43. Recoveries of 2:38-3:04 after the 1200s and 800s; about 90 second recoveries for the 400s and 200s. Followed with leg strengthwork and 500 yards recovery swimming.
T: 50 minutes pool-running and streaming yoga.
W: 8 miles easy outside (9:07) plus drills and strides, then upper body weights/core and 4 miles easy on the treadmill (8:49)
Th: 12 miles on the treadmill, including a 4 mile tempo in 26:10 (6:38/6:31/6:31/6:30), followed by 6 times 30 seconds hard (progressing down to mile pace).   Followed with leg strengthwork and 500 yards recovery swimming. .
F: 50 minutes pool-running and streaming yoga.
Sa: 9 miles very easy outside (9:04), drills and four hill strides; upper body weights/core; and then 3 miles very easy on treadmill (9:08)
Su: 21 progressive. split as the first 7 at 9:13, next 7 at 7:53, next 7 at 7:08. Followed with light injury prevention work and 500 yards recovery swimming.

Flavio the fear of landing on concrete makes sense. Grass just fels smoother even though dirt hurts. Snow sometimes feel like falling on concrete.

Piwi nice week. 10k pace instead of half marathon? Someone had some extra juice to get going, or was it a bad day at work?

Mark your training paces, as well as Jmac when he is in the groove, just blow my mind. I guess you need some speed to PR the marathon by almost a minute per mile faster than me. I think the days off really help so you're going into harder workouts with fresh legs. I think only the marathon needs to be on some tired legs. No need to build that up for anything else.

steve I HATE the heat. I suffer through it and make my long runs at 7am to avoid it as much as possible. During normal times I just suck it up during lunch runs at work. Kudos to you for going through it all and the knee pains going away.

My Week

More miles than I was/have planned for. 50 is about where I saw myself until child #2 arrives. A 5k just went virtural and a group is planning a "race" near my hosue on a flat out and back so maybe I try to break 19:44 again. Might actually have another runner capable of being ahead of me dragging me that last mile to keep hammering.

Total distance: 57.80mi