Monday: 2.5 hrs, 60 min threshold, 4000 feet, Alta -- up to Baldy shoulder, down, top, main chute.
Tuesday: 1:50, easy 2400 feet, Alta, Baldy main with brother Jordan
Wednesday: 1 hr, easy run
Thursday: 1:30, 6 x 4ish intervals, 24 min of VO2, 2600 feet, Alta
Friday: 1 hr, easy run, 500 feet
Saturday: 5 hrs 10 min, easy, 7200 feet, went for a long walk and found and skied this:
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| From November 6. 2010 |
Great day to be out. Didn't see anyone. Recrystallized pow and November Corn!?!?
Total: 13 hrs, 16,700 vert feet
One of the keys to training -- so I've been told -- is going slow enough so that you can go fast when you have to. This week I focused on getting a lot of low intensity/level 1 time in so that I could get the most out of my high intensity workouts. More often than not, when interval day comes around, I'm too tired and too fatigued to get a quality workout. And doing intervals in this state certainly doesn't make me faster and probably makes me slower. Part of the problem is that I have limited time and when I'm out training, I want to make the most of it. Another part of the problem is that I get impatient and don't like to go slow. But what I have come to learn is that "making the most" of training doesn't always mean pummeling myself all of the time. "Making the most" of training means pummeling myself on the days I'm supposed to do that, and on the other days, training in a way that allows me to pummel myself on the days I'm supposed to do that, i.e., go easy.
It's tough to put this principle in practice, but I'm going with it. "You've got to trust your training." -- Billy D.
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