No spectacular workouts, but a solid week so far. Looking like it could be 140+. (Which is probably the kiss of death...)

 

I just tried to look at your running log summary page on my crapberry and it crashed because apparently your log was too large.  I guess it's only used to dealing with mine.

Indeed it was the kiss of death. Now suffering neck pain after my car was hit from behind. The big week is out of the window.

 

Shit, other than the sore neck are you ok?  What happened?

Purdey I hope you are OK.  

 

Don't know WTF is wrong with people with these hit from behind accidents.  Had 2 of them last year, one was kind of nobody's fault as some dip-shit decided he wanted to turn left across double yellow lines (into a  fast food joint)  on a very busy road, and the people who crossed a busy intersection at the top of the hill could not see the cars stopped behind this guy until too late, but the other one was a traffic light, been sitting there for a while behind a big line of cars when someone just rammed into my car.  Fortunately, both times I was in a big SUV, would have gotten hurt bad if I was in my little car.

Been cleared to run. Nothing structurally wrong with my spine - just some big muscles spasming in my neck and back. Good news. Muscles aren't a problem. I am very glad that I was in a large solid piece of German engineering. Her Peugeot 105 was crumpled. I think she also dropped her iPhone.

Sorry to hear about the collision - I hope you have no lingering tweaked body parts - Maybe a bit of forced taper - Taper is such a funny thing when you never really got to train ...

 

I had a good week with 4 good hill days - Main focus on the down part of hill running.  Between the 4+ hour trail run Friday night and the Nothing But hills workout Sunday - I ended up tweaking my right calf a bit.  Should go away with taper.

 

The thing I never really got to do training for Leadville is walking at incline on my TM - I had planned to block up the thing and walk at 25% ish.  Hell I never walked much at 15%.

 

A Leadville finish will come from mental strategery to go out a the exact easiest pace to not burn my less then adequately trained body out too soon.  When you are in prime shape you have a much larger margin for error.

Purdey, glad to hear that things are OK and you're cleared to run.

 

We had a good trip up to the UP but I came back broken.  For no apparent reason at the end of a decent run through the Seney Wildlife Refuge last week Wednesday, my left leg shot back at me.  I was about a quarter mile away from returning to the visitor center after about 8.5 miles of good running and I felt this bad pull in my leg.  It was on the inside leg back towards the hamstring. 

 

Then on Friday, I was minding my own business watching the kids play at a beach in Pictured Rocks when some stupid guy and his kids row up in a canoe.  We were at the edge of the beach were a small river discharges into Lake Superior.  There was a pretty decent current going through there with a rock wall on one side.  As they came up, the canoe started taking water and basically sank.  They weren't too far from getting to the beach but they thought it would be a good idea to come up along where the river comes out.  A couple of us help pull the canoe up and flip it over.  In that process I jacked up my lower back.

 

So, the last week and half wasn't the best for training and here I am 8 weeks out from the marathon with a limp leg and a bad back.  This sucks!

Are there trails through Seney or just the logging roads? 

 

There's a driveable route called the Marshland Wildlife Drive.  It started at the visitor center and looped around a bunch of the ponds for 7 miles.  It came back out to the highway so I had to run back up to the entrance road and back to the visitor center.  There was a nice breeze so it kept the bugs down.  In a few spots where trees blocked the wind, the flies were right there.  Had there not been a breeze, the run would have been miserable with the flies.  Saw loons, swans and cranes (and yes, some geese).