Today Was Not The Day That Was Scheduled
...but it hasn't been so bad, even for all that.
I slept longer than I intended - I've been sleeping a lot lately. This may have something to do with being 51 years old (which has something to do with just about everything) or it may have more to do with having been running and skiing every day or it may have something to do with being around 9000 feet elevation for the last month.
Or maybe all of the above.
I got to work early, and after a few hours, (and about three cups of coffee) I did head out of the house and go for a run along Hwy 550; I dropped down from the condo (around 8870 ft) down to the hairpin turn a half-mile away (elevation 8740), then headed up the hill; I ran all the way up to 10000 feet, which was 4 miles away from the condo, and turned around there.
Yes, that's pretty danged slow - yes, you probably could have walked it faster than that. I suspect that I could have walked it faster than that - but the point is that I RAN it, every step of it. That's important - if I don't run it, then it can't go into my running log.
There at the top, I saw that I was looking at Engineer Mountain from the other side - I've posted several pix of Engineer on this blog, but here is the other side of the mountain:
To my way of thinking, that's a pretty piece of rock : )
Running up and down that long, long hill was actually a lot of fun; the most fun about it was that I was, indeed, able to keep running. Two years ago, when Patrick the Tree-Top Ectomorph and I ran the Grand Canyon, I was surprised that I was able to run all the way back up to the rim from the river; what's more surprising to me is that I was able to do this run. Of course, this wasn't nearly as much vertical (about 1300 ft compared to 4200 feet from the River to the Rim) but this run started higher than that run ended, and I haven't been doing hill work twice a week for two months to prepare. In fact, all of my runs have been remarkably flat - almost all of them on treadmills.
I don't suppose that this run really proved anything - or, at least, I don't know what it proved - but it does leave me with a good bit of confidence that I'll be able to train for Imogene Pass, which is nearly six months away. And, if I can run Imogene, then I can run anything after Imogene : )
After the run, I got back to work, and due to other circumstances, we never actually made it to the ski hill today (we're currently sitting at 47 days of skiing in the bank, and we need three more to get to our goal of 50; I've decided that I want 51 days, so that I can "ski my age" : ) But there's nowhere to go tonight, so we'll be shutting down at a decent hour and watching Babylon 5 Season 5 and getting into bed early.
I slept longer than I intended - I've been sleeping a lot lately. This may have something to do with being 51 years old (which has something to do with just about everything) or it may have more to do with having been running and skiing every day or it may have something to do with being around 9000 feet elevation for the last month.
Or maybe all of the above.
I got to work early, and after a few hours, (and about three cups of coffee) I did head out of the house and go for a run along Hwy 550; I dropped down from the condo (around 8870 ft) down to the hairpin turn a half-mile away (elevation 8740), then headed up the hill; I ran all the way up to 10000 feet, which was 4 miles away from the condo, and turned around there.
Yes, that's pretty danged slow - yes, you probably could have walked it faster than that. I suspect that I could have walked it faster than that - but the point is that I RAN it, every step of it. That's important - if I don't run it, then it can't go into my running log.
There at the top, I saw that I was looking at Engineer Mountain from the other side - I've posted several pix of Engineer on this blog, but here is the other side of the mountain:
Running up and down that long, long hill was actually a lot of fun; the most fun about it was that I was, indeed, able to keep running. Two years ago, when Patrick the Tree-Top Ectomorph and I ran the Grand Canyon, I was surprised that I was able to run all the way back up to the rim from the river; what's more surprising to me is that I was able to do this run. Of course, this wasn't nearly as much vertical (about 1300 ft compared to 4200 feet from the River to the Rim) but this run started higher than that run ended, and I haven't been doing hill work twice a week for two months to prepare. In fact, all of my runs have been remarkably flat - almost all of them on treadmills.
I don't suppose that this run really proved anything - or, at least, I don't know what it proved - but it does leave me with a good bit of confidence that I'll be able to train for Imogene Pass, which is nearly six months away. And, if I can run Imogene, then I can run anything after Imogene : )
After the run, I got back to work, and due to other circumstances, we never actually made it to the ski hill today (we're currently sitting at 47 days of skiing in the bank, and we need three more to get to our goal of 50; I've decided that I want 51 days, so that I can "ski my age" : ) But there's nowhere to go tonight, so we'll be shutting down at a decent hour and watching Babylon 5 Season 5 and getting into bed early.
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