Training Log Archive: CoachingEnduranc

run out at pine mountain (25 miles east of bend, or) with sean meissner and rod bien. sean was doing recon for a race he wants to put on. good times but a bit too much dirt road for my tastes. for the first time ever i almost threw up at the end. my stomach was in a bind. rod thought it was because meissner was running with his shirt off. not sure.. but i AM sure that they are fast and i am not. good run, great company.

after just 150 miles or so the superfeet w/nueroma bump have packed down the bump is almost gone. i added a patch of mole skin and it helped sooo much. i'm just going to add a patch to my sole custom footbeds. they are better insoles. also put a piece of mole skin between my toes and that seemed to help too. morton's was a non issue today but the trail wasn't very technical either.

hip didn't hurt but i could feel it a bit more than yesterday.

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37 min to the top of grey butte in redmond, oregon. meissner dropped me (yeah he's fit for western states 100 this year!) and i knew the planned 38 miles was going to be long and tough. i had absolutely no spunk so i cut it shorter than meissner by a couple hours. there was walking involved and it sucked.

morton's nueroma wasn't great but the continental divides have waay more protection so that was good. i need to cut out the right heal cup a bit.

also felt some twinges in my hip flexor but no real pain.

meissner thought i was 'sandbagging' when i say i am not that fit right now. well on this run i think i proved it. the big horn 50 will be a different kind of challenge.

finally got some quick yoga done while watching a movie at meisner's house. felt great. need to rest my bones.. we have a lot of running planned. =)

rest day. no muscle soreness from yesterdays run is great, but i'm kind of tired.

started in salt lake city, flew to seattle, packed the van and drove to sisters, oregon. tired then stayed up too late chatting.

ran up little cottonwood with meltzer. 1/2 up 1,148 feet to the end of trail. then back down. karl dropped me on the way up, but i didn't have the energy to even try to keep up. on the way down he gradually increased pace until we were in full sprint. i was able to stay with him on the technical downhill thankfully.

ran the second 1/2 of the squaw peak 50 miler in provo utah. vivian park. aid station 6 up two big climbs, windy peak was cool at 9,307ft. blog coming soon, i got some great shots of the course. it's a bad ass race! i carried 120 oz of water from the start and ran with it the whole way as "training" rather than dumping it. i drank 62oz... not enough.

4,724 ft of gain, 5,207 of loss.

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run w/meltzer from his house up bell's canyon. similar route to the one i took yesterday but the trail got steep and turned into a hike. perfect AT training. i'll be behind him like that for 281 miles in august!

highlanders with my superfeed morton's bump insoles worked fine. i like that i can really feel the trail in this shoe.

overall energy today is very low once again. =(

planned run was aborted (no truck keys). ran from karl's house up to the river trail to bell's canyon. right on wasatch blvd then to hidden valley park. headed up a super muddy steep path for 15 minutes before it peetered out and i sort of expored and turned around a lot then ran back from reservoir.

run to the grocery store with backpack.