Burpees, Trails

100 Burpees For Time:

6:31 (9 second PR from 2/22, 18 days ago)


52 Min Trail Run at Riverlin St. Trails. Started out on the new trails Contois and I ran last weekend, then hit the powerline trail all the way to the end (neglecting to run "the hill" at the end......), turned around and came out to the main road where I ran another 10-15 minutes. Probably covered 5 miles in total, maybe a bit more.


Contrast hot/cold 2 minute on 1 minute off soak on my left foot

COMMENTS

• General: Nice PR with the burpees. I think the best way to keep getting closer to my goal is to keep doing the exact workout every couple weeks. Even if I shave off only a few seconds each time eventually it will add up and my body will adapt to it better each time. Today was a phenomenal run. Good pace, nice trails (albeit they were soaked and muddy... at least minimal snow). I look forward to only doing runs like this after next weekend and taking a break from the really long ones that sometimes bore me. I think it will give me a greater appreciation for trail running, especially once the snow is gone.
• Nutrition: Good
• Body: Legs started off feeling pretty tired during the run but I felt pretty good after I warmed up. Foot was bothering me towards the end of the run.
• Sleep: 8.5 hours. Tried 5mg of melatonin last night but it didn't do much more than 3mg so I don't think I'll go higher than 3 for now.
• Reflections: I think tomorrow I will either rest or go to Baystate and strength train. Likely strength training so that I can do one more session of it on Monday and then a last light run on Tuesday. From there on will be pure rest. I decided that after next weekend I will be kicking caffeine of any sort for the 30 days to see if I really want to continue drinking coffee everyday. It's going to suck.....but I want to see what happens. My foot was bothering me and that irks me but the contrast soak felt good and I will likely do that again the next few days.

Something else I wanted to point out. Assuming that I'll do a ~4 mile run on Tuesday, I have run a total of 118.8 miles over 19 different sessions (16 distance, 1 "fartlek", 2 interval) since the 50k in January. It's an average of 6.3 miles per run. It's approximately 11 weeks since my last ultra. The weekly average for me going into the last one was a hair over 7 miles. Although I did not do as many long runs preparing for this ultra (longest was about 16 miles, compared to around 22 last time) I averaged 10.8 miles per week. I'm pleased to see the number went up especially with all the strength gains I've made in these past weeks. I know the reason I didn't get that long run in I'd planned for was because I hate the roads. Had the trails been OK to run on I would have hit 25+ at least once. But at this point what's done is done and it's time to mentally prepare for the task at hand and not worry about what could've happened.