Mon: rest day
Tue: 45 min trail run, weight training
Wed: rest day
Thurs: 70 min trail run; 100 min mtn biking (half singletrack); all training done at night
Fri: rest day
Sat: 1 hour bike ride
Sun: 90 min paddle, 2 1/2 hour trek/jog/orienteer
As one might guess, a lot of rest and recuperation was in order after
running the STORM adventure race; we were going on about 8 hours of
sleep across Thurs, Fri, Sat nights combined so I had some catching up
to do! I want to be careful to stay healthy and avoid colds at
this time of year.
All in all, it felt good to ease back to some more intense training and
I'm working to embrace the cold (although, honestly, it is still fairly
warm here). I'll need to ratchet up the duration and intensity in
the weeks to come, but this is darn good for me during a "post-race"
week. We had fun yesterday clearing the final CP flags from
the STORM course -- and talked with Southeast Expeditions about a 2006
race out on the Eastern Shore. I don't like doing the same course
more than once, but Southeast Expeditions is so enthusiastic and
excited after the success of the STORM that it's a bit infectious;
there's lots of new terrain out that way to explore . . .