Old Mountain Trail 5K

I got up in the morning of the race and first thing I did was to check the temp. 18 that's a little chilly.  My buddy Kenny picked me up around 8:15 and we headed down to the race, we pulled in and registered then got ready to run the course as a warm up.  We had a good warm up and where ready for the 10am start, then we saw the huge line for registration then heard they pushed the start out to 10:30.  We ended up sitting in the truck for a while to keep warm then about 10:20 started to try to warm up again, which was difficult after working up a sweat on first warm up and the cold temps made for a very chilly start.

I knew the start was going to be hard, the single track in woods is tight and the first good hill is only a half mile into the race, and didn't want to get bottle necked behind a big group.  I felt gassed right off the start not a good feeling, I kept telling myself just settle into a nice pace. I pushed up the hill knowing there was a downhill I could recover on.  Then we hit the new cut trail it had a couple water crossing which i was able to get over without getting wet. then we hit the fields and then back into the woods for the last section before the finish.  I just never felt good, the whole race was a struggle.  It was unfortunate to have a bad race because it was a nice course, rocky root filled single track.

We decided to run the course a 2nd time as a cool down, finished the day with 9miles.  Even though I had a bad race it was still a fun day of running...

Weekly Log 11-19-11 to 12-25-11

Monday: 0 day off

Tuesday: 0 had dentist appt. no time for a run

Wednesday: 7.5mile road run, felt good pushed the pace and pr'd this run by 3mins

Thursday: 7.5mile road run leg felt good and kept a good pace

Friday: 0 day off

Saturday: 6.5mile trail run Big River

Sunday: 0 day off

Weekly Total: 21.5  miles
Last Week: 23 miles
Year to Date: 1372 miles

Weekly Log 11-12-11 to 12-18-11

Monday: 0 day off

Tuesday: 6.5mile trail run Big River, ran my normal loop felt OK didn't see anyone else out on the trails nice and quiet

Wednesday: 0 was suppose to run at night but didn't get to

Thursday: 0 day off

Friday: 7.5mile road run normal loop legs felt good kept a good pace

Saturday: 0 day off

Sunday: 9miles 3mile warm up 3.1 mile race Old Mountain Trail 5K, then a 3.1 mile cool down. Nice course.

Weekly Total: 23 miles
Last Week: 32 miles
Year to Date: 1350.5 miles 

Weekly Log 11-05-11 to 12-11-11

Monday: 0 Day Off

Tuesday: 7.5mile road run legs felt good

Wednesday: 7mile road run in the rain felt tired

Thursday: 0 Day Off feeling tired

Friday: 7.5mile road run, legs felt OK but I just feel burnt out

Saturday: 0 Day Off, still feeling tired overall

Sunday: 10mile trail run Buck Hill, ran with Kenny nice technical and hilly 10mile loop lots of rocks water and steep climbs, legs felt good but still just feeling blah no energy.

Weekly Total: 32 miles
Last Week: 41 miles
Year to Date: 1327.5 miles

Weekly Log 11-28-11 to 12-04-11

Monday: 7.5Mile road run, Laten Knight Rd. loop legs felt good ran a nice pace

Tuesday: 7.5mile road run Laten Knight Rd. loop felt good

Wednesday: 0 day off

Thursday: 7.5mile road run Laten Knight Rd. legs felt heavy and still feeling the effects of giving up coffee

Friday: 7.5mile road run Laten Knight Rd.legs still felling heavy felt better at end of run

Saturday: 0 day off

Sunday: 11mile road/trail run with Kenny nice run and then checked out the cyclecross race nice sunday run.

Weekly Total: 41 miles
Last Week: 13 miles
Year to Date: 1295.5 miles

Weekly Log 11-21-11 to 11-27-11

Monday: 0

Tuesday: 0

Wednesday: 0

Thursday: 3.1 miles Greeley Turkey Trot 5K, this was my first ever race last year and I did it in 34:36 this year I finished it in a PR 23:18 it was a fun race that I ran with my family.

Friday: 0

Saturday: 10mile road run

Sunday: 0

Weekly Total:13 miles
Last Week:26 miles
Year to Date: 1254.5 miles