AM: Ugh, that kind of sucked. 17.5 with James from Highland, up to Wasatch, along the bike path, and down to 6200 before following some complicated route back with a pickup from 13 to 17. Kinvaras were a terrible choice today, as it was extremely snowy and icy for the first 4 or 5 miles, so my legs started to feel it too fast and I didn't have much on the MP pickup. James started pushing really hard right away and I didn't have it mentally, so he got away from me. I averaged 6:29 on the pickup. Granted, it had some significant hills and is at altitude, so this isn't terrible, but I wanted to be faster and feel better. I think I felt crappy due to a combination of:
a) 3rd run this week that was at least moderately hard (Mile repeats on Sunday, somewhat similar 15 mile pickup on Wednesday, and then this) plus skiing 4 of the last 5 days
b) Mentally wasn't really all there on the pickup, as it wasn't physically all that bad, breathing wise. Strangely, I tend to run workouts best solo a lot of the time.
c) Have a horrible cough from the inversion still which probably won't go away for another week or so, at which point we'll probably have another inversion.
d) Shoe choice. Kinvaras were really really awful on snow and ice, slipping all over the place, and my stabilizers were already feeling pretty shot by mile 5.
Anyway, runs like this that you have to suffer through are good training for the marathon, so I'm glad that this happened.
PM: Ski day #18 at Snowbird (5th this week), legs actually felt good. Great day to ski. :)
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