Monday, February 23, 2015

Week of February 16th to 22nd, 2015

Monday:
0mi.  I played 2-on-2 hoops after school with coworkers.  -12F this morning and windy.

Tuesday:
0mi.  I played 4-on-4 hoops after school again.  Fun times.  Did a short snowshoe hike with the neighborhood kids after basketball.

Wednesday:
0mi.  Lifted weights and got swole.  I should have run, but feeling tired.

Thursday:
3mi S.S./20min on the beaver pond single track with Griffin.  Windy and cold, 9F.  It's been below 0F every morning this week.  The cold temps are keeping the snow nice and fluffy.

Friday:
0mi.  Played floor hockey at school all day.  Vacation starts tomorrow!

Saturday:
13mi* S.S./1:26 - Prospect Mtn 10K snowshoe race - 56:40 - 2nd place.  Ferenc and I dropped a guy early on the deep single track as the trail started to climb.  The climb was tough but it kept dumping out onto groomed trails and it was not too steep.  Ferenc started pulling away after 24min of racing mostly uphill.  I kept him in sight and he had 30 sec on me at the 5K mark which was at the summit (32:30).  I lost sight of Ferenc on the descent on deep powdery single track, but soon I could see snow spraying from him far up the trail.  I kept pushing on and got closer and closer.  The course continued mostly downhill but with some brutal traverses and little climbs on single track.  We dumped onto the groomed descent and we were flying.  I was maybe 8 seconds back and I gave it everything I had to try to catch him.  I finally caught him on the last little climb on the groomed section right before the final switch back descent before the finish.  My legs were destroyed and he pulled away on the switch backs.  I jogged down them, just trying to keep from falling on my face.  He won by 5 seconds.  I'll take the moral victory of just being able to catch back up to him.  If TiVo hadn't have put those impossible switchbacks there, I might have gotten him!  It was a great race though and I really surprised myself with how well I ran.  It was super cold at the mountain and I think that scared a lot of peope away from the race as there were only like 35 people.  (It was -14 at my house in the morning when I was getting ready to leave for the race.)

Sunday:
11mi S.S./1:20 in Pisgah with Ferenc, Lena and Ellie.  Sunny and warm today!  33F and it felt like Spring!  My body was pretty tired from yesterday's race.  I shoveled the 5" of new powder we got in the morning before the run.

Total for the week:
27mi.  Great race on Saturday.  It's vacation next week.  I'm pumped to run, lift and hopefully go to the rock gym and do some climbing.

Week of February 9th to 15th, 2015

Monday:
4mi S.S./33min on the beaver pond single track.  Awesome run!  The trail we made is so fun.  It's tough going up and a blast coming down.  I shoveled for 3hrs and roof raked the 12" total of new snow from yesterday and today's storm.  Did a 1hr snowshoe hike with Jen and Griffin to pack our new trail in my big 30" snowshoes.  No school today, again.

Tuesday:
0mi.  I roof raked and shoveled my neighbor's house for her.  She is old and has some ailments and can't do that kind of stuff.  Then I went to Glenn's house and helped him shovel tons of snow off his deck that had come off of his roof (which our friend George cleared for him).  My upper body and back are a bit sore and stiff.

Wednesday:
0mi.  I went for a snowshoe hike with my neighbor and his young kids.  I'm glad they are into it.  My body is tired.  It's worth it though, I love all this snow!

Thursday:
3mi S.S./20min on beaver pond single track.  Fun little run in the morning.  Watched the middle school basketball tournament at night.  C-field won the title for boys.

Friday:
1mi + drills and sprints after lifting at the YMCA.  Got diesel.  Snowshoe hike at night to pack the single track.

Saturday:
8mi S.S./58min on the Athens, VT trails with Ferenc, Lena and Ellie.  Fun run on a cold day, 4F.  Helped Ferenc get a load of wood after the run.

Sunday:
12mi S.S./1:30 in Pisgah with Ferenc, Lena and Elle.  Cold day, 10F with lot's of wind.  Tiring run, 7" of new snow.  I was bonking at the end of the run.  Shoveled for 2hrs.  My snow banks are about 6' high.  Snowshoe hike at night with Jen and Griffin for an hour packing our single track again.

Total for the week:
28mi.  Again, not a lot of running, but I've been very active with shoveling, roof raking and snowshoe hiking.  Feeling strong.  I love a real winter.  I can't even count how many nights we've had below 0F and the snow is super deep.  Awesome!

Week of February 2nd to 8th, 2015

Monday:
0mi.  I shoveled for 2hrs.  We got 14" of new snow.  No school today.

Tuesday:
3mi S.S./23min on the beaver pond.  Lifted weights.  It was -13F this morning.  Brrr!  Snowshoe hiked at school.

Wednesday:
8mi S.S./59min in Pisgah with Ferenc and Griffin at night.  We wore headlamps and had a great night run.  The snow was deep and challenging in spots.  Most of the running we did was a snowmobile trails, thankfully!

Thursday:
0mi.  Snowshoe hiked at school with the kids.  I had a late meeting and didn't feel like running.

Friday:
4mi S.S./31min in Pisgah with Griffin.  Lifted weights in the morning.  Snowshoe hiked with the kids at school again.  It was -14F this morning.

Saturday:
12mi*/1:24 - Northfield Mtn 4.5mi snowshoe race - 44:48 - 2nd.  Tough conditions.  Ross Krause and Tim Mahoney dropped me on the single track climb.  I caught Tim on the flat single track and my calf cramped.  I was able to descend pretty fast and put some space on Tim.  Ross killed it in 42:01.  Fun day of racing!

Sunday:
0mi.  Snowing all day today.  I shoveled for 2hrs and then Jen, Griffin and I snowshoe hiked a trail across the pond and up into the woods connecting to a snowmobile trail on Horseshoe Rd, which leads into Pisgah.  We have a ton of snow right now!  8 new inches of powder.

Total for the week:
27mi.  Not a lot of running but the race was fun and I've been snowshoe hiking a lot which is kind of like doing an easy run.  There's really no such thing as easy on snowshoes.  We have knee deep snow.  I love it!

Week of January 26th to February 1st, 2015

Monday:
0mi.  I'm feeling much better today after being sick for 12+ hours.  Just a quick bug.  I had to ref 2 games at night.

Tuesday:
4mi S.S./28min on the beaver pond track.  I shoveled for an hour and a half.  We got 6" of new snow.  We were supposed to get a lot more.  Went for a 30min snowshoe hike as well with Jen.  No school today.

Wednesday:
4mi S.S./31min in Pisgah with Griffin.  Beautiful trail conditions made for a fun run.  Lifted weights in the morning and snowshoed all day with the kids at school.

Thursday:
9mi S.S./63min in Pisgah with Brett, Summit and Griffin.  Awesome run.  Turned on the headlamps for the last 25min of the run.  Snowshoed with the kids at school again.

Friday:
0mi.  Feeling tired and lazy.  Played some 1-on-1 volleyball at school with my student teacher.  Pretty fun stuff.  Body tired.

Saturday:
12mi/1:24 in Horatio Reserve with Brett and Summit.  Tough run, we should have worn snowshoes.  The snow was deep and it was cold, -3F.  I managed to overdress though.  Rock climbed for 2.5hrs at Vertical Dreams in Manchester after the run.  I'd love to start climbing more.  When I came home, the beautiful house across the beaver pond was on fire and we watched in horror as it burned to the ground.  The fire department couldn't do much except keep it from spreading to the woods.  Sad.

Sunday:
17mi*/1:59 on the Athens, VT trails with Ferenc, Brett, Lena and Ellie.  Cold to start -6F.  It was sunny though and plenty of climbing to warm us up.  We ran the switch backs on the way back and we did a death slide on our butts down the steep icy terrain.  Fun but a bit scary!  We saw a porcupine sitting in a hollowed out tree.

Total for the week:
46mi.  Decent week.  Rock climbing was a blast!  I need to do more snowshoe runs as it is really slippery out in the woods.  The snow is too deep for micro-spikes to do anything.