Run 3 hours and 30 minutes:
Saturday was my longest training run for the Leadville Marathon: 3 hours and 30 minutes.
I ran in the foothills at the top of Montgomery. I ran 1 hour and 30 minutes on the Mountain Bike Trails. Then, I ran 1 hour UP:
Straight UP, UP, UP, UP I went. This became so steep, and I was scrambling across rock.
I haven’t told you about my new shoes:
New Balance Minumus:
I love these shoes. They have a Vibram soles. I bought the men’s version, it had a little more room in the toe box.
They weigh about 6 ounces.
Don’t get me wrong, I won’t lose my other shoes, at 3.5 ounces, the Mizouno Wave Universe 3’s.
These shoes are awesome!!
See those suction cups. They are like Spider Man. I ran up rocks, scrambling the granite like it was nothing. This is real scrambling, granite slab that runs the length of cars, trailers, homes, no sissy scrambling. It got so technical in the canyon, I headed back down and then UP, UP, UP trailhead 191.
I love the the ventilation, it’s like a mesh with reinforcement.
The first time I wore these shoes, was for a 9 mile off road run, I ran it without socks. No problem, not a blister.
I am practicing wearing socks. Leadville is going to be cold and we will probably be running across snow pack at the top of 13,000 feet.
All in all a great shoe.
After that hell-a-cious climb/scrambling, trying to maintain any kind of pace, I went back down for another hour out and back on the Mountain Bike Trails.
The last 30 minutes I picked up the pace to as close to Tempo as I could. This avoided the pain in the hips and the side of the knees that comes with long bodacious runs.
When I returned to the parking lot, there were a couple of older gentlemen, who commended me, “on how fast I was running”. Those were their words, not mine. They were impressed with ‘how I was running as fast as they were riding’.
I told them, to keep the flattery coming, that it was going to do me a ton of good. Then, we talked about the fires, the smoke, the gas, Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race…etc.
I was slow and steady like a tortoise.
Enough for now, today, for the first time in forever, I get to ride my bike and my Scott at that.
I haven’t ridden in forever. Too long, I am tired, I am cranky.
AND I NEED TO RIDE MY BIKE!!
Yesterday I spent ALL day getting wifi connected. Apparently when D-links hit concrete during moves it makes them not work.
It all works now.
Thank goodness.