I don’t remember much. We had two snow storms. They shouldn’t interfere with my trainings much because most of the snow started or peaked during the day time after my normal morning runs. However, I chose to sleep in on both day.
So nothing much to report.
Monday. I believed I went out to the Bull Run trail and did 12-13 miles. Monday was a federal holiday, so I did not work. MLK.
Tuesday, an excuse to sleep in. Snow did not start until later. I don’t know if I ran since I did not record
Wednesday. I remembered I went out on one of the snow days and it probably was on Wednesday. Training on snow was hard. It was still soft on Tuesday but by Wednesday there were patches of ice. I stepped on couple of them and did some weird Michael Jackson dances but didn’t fall. After those couple close calls I decided to just walk the route instead of running it.
Thursday and Friday, I don’t remember being out. We had a second storm system plowing through. I took the night off.
Saturday, ran on fresh powdered snow for 10 miles. It was a good workout on muscles I rarely used. Running on snow is a different beast. Was moving slow. Downhills were especially fun. I tripped once and almost fell in face first on a creek but was able to regain my balance at the last moment and cleared the water. After that no more running for me.
Got two new pairs trainers, both are trail shoes on discounted prices. Happy about them because they were discounted. I wore New Balance before (road shoes but ran them on trail) that did not work quite well at my last MMT (feet were hurting badly at the last 25 miles). I plan to test/use these for my MMT100.
I still need some road shoes for my normal marathons. Personally I perfer wearing Altra Lone Peak but mine only last through a season. Devil Dog 100 totally trashed my favorite Altra. I have two other Altras for road but they seemed to fall apart too after a few marathons. I probably put over 100 miles on those as well.
Funny story (or a stupid thing), I never considered wearing trail shoes for trail racing until after Burning River where I did not have much traction support from my worn out road shoes on a slick muddy downhill trail where I took a few tumbles. Now I swore by it thag trail shoes are really made for trail races!
Health report. My left foot has completely recovered after a few days of resting. Now my right foot is acting up a bit after the Saturday run. Not really hurting but whenever I stretch it or curl up my toes, I felt some pain. Also, my weight has gone up a bit (4 lbs) maybe from a few days of resting.
Week 8 (last week of January) is mostly like week 7. I missed couple days of training for some unknown or reasons I couldn’t remember. Anyway, I will try to do better, now I am over a third of my 25 week plan. 16 weeks left. It was a good time to refocus.
In awe 