Taper Time!
I started this post for another blog but for some reason, I can't cut and paste my blog posts? So now that I have this here and ready to go I figured I'd drop it into the LATO files for a quick update on the taper front leading up to TransRockies.
The GoreTex TransRockies Run is a six day trail running race Dana and I are doing next week in Colorado. From Buena Vista to Beaver Creek, we'll be running almost 120 miles as a team across the peaks of northern Colorado. One of my Endurables friends, Ken Brunt, did it two years ago and said it was spectacular. (So much so that he'll be back this year.) I've had it on my radar ever since and all I needed was a running friend with the disposable income, vacation time, understanding partner, similar pace, healthy body, positive attitude and mindset that paying $$ to run for six days at an average of 10,000 feet and camping in between sounded AWESOME.
And so it was that Dana said "Totally. I'm in!"
So for the past six or seven months, we've been steadily making our plans and logging the training miles under the guidance of another Endurable and new running coach, Larissa Polishchuk. After many miles and trails and hills and early morning runs and international runs and back to back to back runs, we are in taper week. At last. And this is where my little blog post comes in. You can read more about our adventures leading up to TransRockies here.
Aloha! Fresh off the plane from Kauai and mid-taper before TransRockies, the lungs are chilling, the feets are resting and the legs are tanning - working up that base for the high altitude exposure. All is good the week before we start. Cheery emails from friends and with Dana, 11th hour purchases - a new pack to hold my camera, a new bra to hold my boobs. Things are coming together and the excitement is tangible. I am ALL confidence at the unknown. We will go, we will finish, we will have fun. 2 of the 3 I know for sure.
(Na Pali Coast where I did not run. I hiked. Quickly. With feeling.)
Fresh off a great long weekend in Kauai paddling an outrigger in the Napali Challenge, my upper body is tight, my lower body loose, and my mind all dialed back into running. Truth be told the weeks between my trips to Bhutan/India and Hawaii were not filled with the usual glowing happy running adventures I generally experience. I was solo a lot and running the same trails just to get the miles in. I mean, in the end you never finish a run and think boo hoo, poor me - there's always the natural high from running 12+ miles as the sun rises and landing at your desk flush with rosy cheeks and a little dirt around the ankles. (Sometimes you have to make the hard decision between cutting a run short to get to the shower or toweling off in the parking lot and heading to work.) But at times it felt a little more like work and a little less like fun.
(No work. No running. No cares. View from edge of Hanae.)
But now I am ALL IN and super stoked for the adventure ahead. Even a chill 55 minute run through the city got me excited after a week of no running. The miles are logged, the mascara selected. Soon the bags will be packed and our little team, Runs With Mascara, will make it's official debut in six days! Shabooya.
The GoreTex TransRockies Run is a six day trail running race Dana and I are doing next week in Colorado. From Buena Vista to Beaver Creek, we'll be running almost 120 miles as a team across the peaks of northern Colorado. One of my Endurables friends, Ken Brunt, did it two years ago and said it was spectacular. (So much so that he'll be back this year.) I've had it on my radar ever since and all I needed was a running friend with the disposable income, vacation time, understanding partner, similar pace, healthy body, positive attitude and mindset that paying $$ to run for six days at an average of 10,000 feet and camping in between sounded AWESOME.
And so it was that Dana said "Totally. I'm in!"
So for the past six or seven months, we've been steadily making our plans and logging the training miles under the guidance of another Endurable and new running coach, Larissa Polishchuk. After many miles and trails and hills and early morning runs and international runs and back to back to back runs, we are in taper week. At last. And this is where my little blog post comes in. You can read more about our adventures leading up to TransRockies here.
Aloha! Fresh off the plane from Kauai and mid-taper before TransRockies, the lungs are chilling, the feets are resting and the legs are tanning - working up that base for the high altitude exposure. All is good the week before we start. Cheery emails from friends and with Dana, 11th hour purchases - a new pack to hold my camera, a new bra to hold my boobs. Things are coming together and the excitement is tangible. I am ALL confidence at the unknown. We will go, we will finish, we will have fun. 2 of the 3 I know for sure.
(Na Pali Coast where I did not run. I hiked. Quickly. With feeling.)Fresh off a great long weekend in Kauai paddling an outrigger in the Napali Challenge, my upper body is tight, my lower body loose, and my mind all dialed back into running. Truth be told the weeks between my trips to Bhutan/India and Hawaii were not filled with the usual glowing happy running adventures I generally experience. I was solo a lot and running the same trails just to get the miles in. I mean, in the end you never finish a run and think boo hoo, poor me - there's always the natural high from running 12+ miles as the sun rises and landing at your desk flush with rosy cheeks and a little dirt around the ankles. (Sometimes you have to make the hard decision between cutting a run short to get to the shower or toweling off in the parking lot and heading to work.) But at times it felt a little more like work and a little less like fun.
(No work. No running. No cares. View from edge of Hanae.)But now I am ALL IN and super stoked for the adventure ahead. Even a chill 55 minute run through the city got me excited after a week of no running. The miles are logged, the mascara selected. Soon the bags will be packed and our little team, Runs With Mascara, will make it's official debut in six days! Shabooya.
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