The Week of February 18-24, 2008
February 27, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 2 Comments
Gretchen and Mason dropping me early on Friday’s run.Synopsis of Week’s Training:
For reasons I do not recall, I took Monday off. Tuesday, I logged a decent 7.5 miles around Arlington, while I ran home from work on Wednesday. I took Thursday off as my sis and I tried to beat an ice storm down the Blue Ridge Mountains – we did and arrived in Asheville, NC a little after 3 a.m. Friday morning.
The pace of our shakeout run ended up being crazy close to the moving pace on race day (10:04 on Friday, 10:02 on Saturday). Afterwards, Gretch, Mike and I hit a vegetarian restaurant in Black Mountain and then hung at the neighboring coffee shop with Greg Loomis.
Of course, Saturday was the Mount Mitchell Challenge. (My Mount Mitchell Challenge race report.) Sunday my sister and I hobbled around Asheville – no running.
By The Numbers:
Monday – 0. Rest.
Tuesday – 7.5
Wednesday – 6.5
Thursday – 0. Travel.
Friday – 5.5. Shakeout.
Saturday – 38. Mount Mitchell Challenge
Sunday – 0. Rest.
Weekly Mileage: 57.5
Year-to-Date Mileage: 362.5
Three Week Moving Average: 55.2
Year-to-Date Weekly Average: 46.9
I always new my Jersey bred sister was born to run!Upcoming Training Goals:
Another light training week in light of the 50 miles at Old Pueblo on Saturday. Get plenty of rest. Try and get in one quality weekday run. Enjoy Old Pueblo. Remember to have an off week following Old Pueblo!
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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Great week. Way to go. I love how Mason looks back while dropping you early on in the race, but Gretchen wastes no time and plugs on.
Enjoy Old Pueblo.
Ha! Tony there’s no way I could see Mason by the time we hit the trail during the race… the pic was from Friday’s shake out run. ;-)