These winds are really wearing me out. Even the downhills were tough this morning, straight into 30+ mph, like having hands pushing your shoulders. Nice to have the tailwind back uphill though. We did manage to outrun the incoming bad weather, the ominous front putting a little more than usual giddyup in our warm down.
We ran a little over 20 yesterday on the MoPac trail in Springfield. Five miles headwind, 5 miles tailwind, times two. 85.2 miles for the week, with another quality day added. I can’t recall the last time I turned in a week like that. I’ll be honest that I was a little bushed for this morning’s hill workout. The next two days are even more daunting with 31 kilometers with pickups manana and 20 x 1/4 on Wednesday.
I know there are some that are surprised I’ve made it into week 7 of Killer Coach’s “plan of assassination”. But therein lies the beauty of having a great coach. I trust him. And do what I’m told. You don’t often hear me saying that.
Luka Thor is hitting 80+ miles per week. And taking Pharmacology classes. He also travels to Lincoln to work the graveyard shift at least once/week. And speaks 4 different languages. Interesting fellow to say the least.
Cory Logsdon ran 104 miles last week as he preps for Boston. He works as a bank teller in Blair and as a server at O.J’s restaurant.
Matt Schneider is taking Nursing classes, working clinicals, and training up for this coming weekend’s Shamrock Shuffle Team Challenge in Chicago.
That is a common thread among our Team Nebraska mates. Training and racing and taking classes and working, and some supporting a family to boot. Excellence indeed.
Aubrey Baxter pr’d in the Hammer Throw this weekend in Stillwater, OK with a huge toss of 67.04 (219′ 11″).
We had some mates run the Blarney Stone 5K Saturday evening. Joy Shultz took Overall Female, Andrew Jacob was 3rd Overall Male, and Mike Reilly won the 35-39 age group. I have to admit that I pretty much expected all of them to finish very well.
More of a surprise and a real treat for me was to see a couple of our Omaha Endurance Group mates run very well. Krista Palm won the women’s 35-39 age group and Amy Reefe took 2nd in the women’s 40-45!
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