Monday was my typical rest day. I was still feeling really fresh despite my 50-60 mile weeks, but I knew the accumulated fatigue would hit me if I didn't take a cutback week. My original plan for the week was to do two easier workouts, two short easy days (~4 miles each), one shorter long …
Category: Training
Palmer Lake Training: Feb 25th – March 3rd
Monday was rest day, per usual. Nothing too thrilling to report. Tuesday was tempo day! I did a 1 mile warmup, 4 miles at around marathon pace, 1 mile easy, 3 miles at around half marathon pace, and a 1 mile cooldown. I was surprised with how good I felt during this workout. The last mile …
Palmer Lake Training: Feb. 18th – 24th
Monday was rest day, as always. I was off work for President's Day, and I was sorely tempted to not take my rest day, but I knew I needed to stick to my schedule. Instead, I kept myself busy by running errands and doing a ton of meal prep for the week (as well as baking …
Palmer Lake Training: Feb 11th – 17th
Time for a new training block! This past week was all about recovery from RUFA as well as setting myself up well for my next race, the Palmer Lake 24 Hour Death Race/Fun Run (best name for a race ever!). I started off the week slowly and did less intensity than I plan to do …
Running Up For Air 6 Hour: Feb. 4th – 10th
It's RACE WEEK!!!! Time for the usual weekly training details + a bonus mini race report at the end. Monday: still a rest day, like always! Tuesday was an hour-long easy run. I decided to cut back and only do one short workout this week instead of the usual two, due to the race on Saturday. …
RUFA Training: Jan 28th – Feb 3rd
Hellooooooo, taper! The goal this week was to drop my long run distance, overall training time, and overall vert by a good amount, but keep up the double weekly workouts. Tapering is not something I'm great at, and finding the balance between enough rest to be recovered for race day and enough running to still …
RUFA Training: January 21st – 27th
Last week of VERT! Initial plan was for another 50ish miles and around 8,000 ft of vertical gain, while still progressing in my weekday workouts. I wanted to do some longer CV intervals and add another 5 minutes to my tempo run. I figured I could get in about ~4,000 ft of gain on Saturday …
RUFA Training: January 14th – 20th
Time to get more vert! This week I was hoping to get another 50 miles, but with much more vertical gain than my "down week" last week. I was shooting for ~10,000 ft, but I knew it would take a lot of things lining up perfectly for that to happen. My only days to get …
RUFA Training: January 7th – 13th
This week was sort of a "down week", and sort of not. I planned to stay around 50 miles, so no drop in volume, but I would get much less vertical gain and time on feet. I was hoping to hit around 2,000-4,000 ft of gain and about 9 hours of training. This would be …
RUFA Training: December 31st – January 6th
Going into this week, I knew I'd have the opportunity to put up some big numbers for vertical gain as well as mileage. Gunnar and I were both off work Monday & Tuesday, so we spent the long weekend up in the mountains of Evergreen, Colorado. This allowed us to get in longer runs than …
Clare Runs Sometimes 