Sincerely,
Beth who failed geography, twice...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wordless Wednesday
I live at sea level, ok so 41 feet above sea level, is 1,000 feet above sea level going to pose a problem?
Monday, January 14, 2013
Special Kind of Idiot
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| Done 10/12, and again 1/13 and 10/13 |
I started drafting my training plan and looking for a race... Laurel Highlands 50K is looking good... Any suggestions for a FIRST 50K Ultra?
Sincerely,
Beth, hoping to be a special kind of idiot before the end of the year
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast
Got home from my trail run this morning and realized this is the best I have felt in at least a month. Holy cow "the crud" and the general end of year stress really took a lot more out of me than I expected it did.
At some point in "Born To Run" Caballo Blanco was "teaching" Christopher McDougall about trail running. Lesson One: Take what the trail gives you, don't fight it. I can identify with that. I do scan the trail see what looks like the best pat, take smaller steps, and not fight the trail, because seriously it is going to win. Starting out today I was pretty confident I was good for Lesson One. Lesson Two was Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. Take the trail easy I think that links up well with taking what the trail has to give you so I worked on light and trying to tread softly and not clomp around. I've also been working on keeping my shoulders relaxed. Working on two things at time seems like the most I should tackle. Eventually I will get to smooth and fast.
All in all the run felt good and it felt short. It was a bout a mile shorter than I thought it should be. The trail is a 8.5 mile trail. Reviewing the trail map and the Garmin output, doesn't look like I cut out a mile anywhere, so huh... I did figure out where an extra loop could be added on so next time I'll be looking for that cut off around mile 5.5.
I really focused on keeping my shoulders relaxed and my arms at 90 degree angles and not clomping along the trail. I could feel the difference when I was tensed up and clomping I tended to stumble more. Very interesting.
One of the thoughts across my mind was McDougall didn't seem to finish the the thought on why women and the Tarahumara seem to excel in Ultra Running. The drop out rate for women in Leadville is 10% while for men it is 50% does he ever get back to Joe Vigil exploring why women excel at long distances? I Hope he doesn't loose the plot on that because I am really curious.
Personally I feel better and better the longer I run. Today I could have taken another loop and I will do that the next time. I'm not a big fan of double loops, however I have a couple of races coming up that are going to be double, triple, and quadruple loops, better suck it up butter cup!
Summary / Splits:
Sincerely,
Beth, feeling like a healthy woman again.
At some point in "Born To Run" Caballo Blanco was "teaching" Christopher McDougall about trail running. Lesson One: Take what the trail gives you, don't fight it. I can identify with that. I do scan the trail see what looks like the best pat, take smaller steps, and not fight the trail, because seriously it is going to win. Starting out today I was pretty confident I was good for Lesson One. Lesson Two was Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. Take the trail easy I think that links up well with taking what the trail has to give you so I worked on light and trying to tread softly and not clomp around. I've also been working on keeping my shoulders relaxed. Working on two things at time seems like the most I should tackle. Eventually I will get to smooth and fast.
All in all the run felt good and it felt short. It was a bout a mile shorter than I thought it should be. The trail is a 8.5 mile trail. Reviewing the trail map and the Garmin output, doesn't look like I cut out a mile anywhere, so huh... I did figure out where an extra loop could be added on so next time I'll be looking for that cut off around mile 5.5.
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| My loop this a.m. 7.33 miles |
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| 8 mile loop |
One of the thoughts across my mind was McDougall didn't seem to finish the the thought on why women and the Tarahumara seem to excel in Ultra Running. The drop out rate for women in Leadville is 10% while for men it is 50% does he ever get back to Joe Vigil exploring why women excel at long distances? I Hope he doesn't loose the plot on that because I am really curious.
Personally I feel better and better the longer I run. Today I could have taken another loop and I will do that the next time. I'm not a big fan of double loops, however I have a couple of races coming up that are going to be double, triple, and quadruple loops, better suck it up butter cup!
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| Pretty trail. This is the view just after scaling a 10 ft piece of ledge |
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Sincerely,
Beth, feeling like a healthy woman again.
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