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Road to Elbrus – Car Chat – 15 August 2018
It’s all coming together too quickly. The High School Mountain Bike Races and my position as a Coach for my team. My training to ride with the fastest of my group. Training to run has been put aside for the summer in previous years. What about this year? What about the Red Fox Elbrus Race in May 2019? Powered by WPeMatico
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Elbrus Car Chat 15 August
Sitting in my car at work thinking out loud about Elbrus Race. I found the original impetus for this Elbrus Race insanity – the Red Fox Elbrus Race. The website is somewhat klunky. More than somewhat, actually. I might have to keep my eyes open on it for when they announce the opening of registration for next May. The first week of May, surrounded by Russian Holidays. That might be interesting to check into. In case you missed the story, I was at the Barrels Huts coming down from an unsuccessful climb of Elbrus when we had to work around a few dozen super fit fast dudes getting off the…
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Road To Elbrus – Skyrunning Training – 10 Aug 2018
It’s like one big game of “what-if” and you know the odds are against you. Elbrus Race 2018? In only six weeks? With enough time to get a Russian Visa? By Mail? Dang I’m a glutton for punishment. Powered by WPeMatico
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The Road to Elbrus Starts Here
Running in Elbrus Race Yet Again? Elbrus Race 2018? Skyrunning? For Real? Well I just had a really dumb idea. I received a Facebook Notice from the logistics company behind Elbrus Race. I hadn’t even considered it. Wowsers. If I train hard for only 6 weeks, can I get back to what I had achieved in 2013 [fifth place] and exceed it, even by a small margin? [Elbrus Race 2013 – my journal on Amazon] I haven’t run in months. My duties as a NICA Certified Level Three High School Mountain Bike Coach have taken quite a leap up from last year. I’ve had to train hard to keep up…
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Winter End Musings – Where do we go from here?
It’s been a long few years since I ended up returning to work as a “mere employee” and having to waste a lot of time commuting and then sitting at at desk in an office with 26 male employoees and one toilet between us. Since most of them are typical fast-food survivors and need to spend a good deal of time squeezing out toxic waste byproducts while playing on their phones, it’s somewhat difficult to stay properly hydrated. If you can’t figure out what the connection is, let me know in a message and I’ll spell it out for you. Fighting the results of my own toxic byproducts of training…
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VK on the Stairmaster Stepmill
Tuesday January 17, 2017 After doing long hill repeat workouts two days in a row, I decided to mix it up with non-running. That pretty much leaves the Stairmaster Stepmill. An hour VK on the stepmill requires that I go at 85 steps per minute for an hour. From my calculator HERE Time: 60:00Steps/Minute: 85Vertical Feet: 3400.00Miles: 0.72Average MPH: 0.724Average Pace: 82:49Vertical/Hour: 3400.00′Vertical/Minute: 56.67′VAM: 1036.3 Anything over 1000 VAM is better than an hour VK (by definition, meaning that 1000 meters is a kilometer, and an hour is 60 minutes – DOH!) Oh, don’t forget I was wearing a 12 lb vest too Just let me tell you. It’s dang…
