Beautiful Wyoming Spring Training
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| Johnny Behind the Rocks single track |
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| This smile was fake... I was really cold |
Spring here is beautiful. But, with wind, rain, snow, ice, mud, heat, more wind, more snow, more mud, even more wind, it can be challenging too. After seemingly endless sub-zero cold all winter long, a little mud never hurt anyone. It's safe to say I'm glad winter is over.
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| She is already faster than me |
This week I finished up a great five-week strength program from Lee Brown and the good folks at Elemental Training. I also got back on the track with the Lander Running Club on Wednesday for some speed work that felt surprisingly good.
Over the weekend I almost got blown off my bike in Sinks Canyon after riding through a dust devil; it left me scrapping mud off of my teeth—no joke. I ran on the muddy/icy/snowy nature trails for a little bit too. On Sunday, I went on my first double digit trail run since The Bear 100 last fall. Evan Reimondo and I had a good, but tired run, of about 13 miles. Evan has a cool blog you can check out, but don’t look around it too much; its probably way better than mine. Anyways, my stupid IT band hurt a few times during the end of the run, which really freaked me out, but I think I’ll be okay. Next weekend I’m shootin’ for 15 miles.
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| Water in the "desert" |
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| It's not Moab, it's Wyoming |
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| Living the dream |
I was fortunate to come back from my run to a brunch of apple-cinnamon rolls, broccoli-bacon-quiche, and a pineapple-apple-orange-beet smoothie. Don't worry, I made Jenny pancakes with apples and an odd greenish colored smoothie on Saturday while she was out running, so we're totally even.
All grub here is sans-gluten because I have celiac disease.
I’m trying really hard to be ready for a 48-mile Zion Traverse in the beginning of June. If you haven’t heard of Zion National Park, or the Zion Traverse, you need to GTS (Google that shit).
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| Photo of Zion I jacked from Google Images |
