70 miles of running with 13,000 ft of climbing/ averaged 8:32 pace per mile. And 22 hours total training for the week.
This week was a bike (and vertical) focus. Next week is a running focus with 3 hard runs and 2 medium duration tempo sessions on the bike. One track session and long tempo run (16 miles) will be at sea level so I'm kind of excited for that.
I just found out tonight that the Leadville Silver Rush 50 mile bike starts with a 200 meter run up a super steep slope before you are able to get on your bike... super sweet. I was a bit worried about sorting out places in the opening miles with several hundred other riders, but now hopefully I'll be able to hit the top close to the lead.
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70 miles and 13,000' vert of running was a bike focus week? Damn, I can't wait to see what you do this week when it's running focused.
I'm going for 20,000' this week, but I'll be averageing 10:00-11:00 miles ;-)
The mileage won't change much, and in fact will drop (I'll have ~10 hours of cycling still though), but mileage is only one (mild) stimulus. I averaged 8:30 pace which was just mostly jogging at MAF HR, quite easy. The run week will be focused around 3 hard quality sessions. If I nail those 3 with just 40 total miles then I'll get more out of the week than just running higher mileage at a moderate pace. Another thing about this week was that I had over 30,000ft of climbing all above 8000ft altitude.
So what is the current Pb Trail 100 run thinking?
No thoughts what so ever.
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