• broken arrow skyrace,  vertical k

    Broken Arrow VK Course Updates for June 14

    The Broken Arrow Sky Race organizers have posted on their Facebook: VK drop bags will be available on top of Squaw Peak (at the finish line). It’s helpful to pack a warm layer here so you can hang out and cheer on the other finishers…. but please note that these bags have to be left at the registration tents no later than 830am! Remember … you’ll be cruising down to High Camp (another mile) from the top of the peak too. I was curious about the descent, and that sort-of a little-bit answers it. 6/14/19 Course Update from Broken Arrow Skyrace on Vimeo. And then a bit more on the…

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  • Video

    Testing Stryd Suunto Steady Power Trail Run

    Jun 1 2019 did a 7.2 mile trail run testing out the Stryd and Suunto 9 Baro connection. I had to keep my eyes on the watch since it won’t announce out of zone power but it wasn’t too bad. I was shooting for around 200 watts and hit 202 Normalized Power (from Training Peaks analysis). Stryd on iPad makes this cool little video that I edited in Vegas Video. Check out the zoom in on the power readout. Powered by WPeMatico

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  • Blog

    Week Straight Out of Heck

    So here I am, after what seems like a rest week. Last week we did some trailer camping with the whole family in Yellowstone National Park over the Memorial Day Holiday. Didn’t get any running in, which I expected. This week I led a NICA Utah Mountain Bike League Coach Training workshop and we had a high school graduation. I had to work around my teen racer’s training schedule. We had company and enjoyed late nights and eating out some. That made it difficult to get in my normal 4 AM training sessions, and even the evening sessions were very difficult to slip in between other stuff. Zwift was taunting…

  • stryd,  zwift cycling

    Broken Arrow Simulation

    This morning I was planning on running with an evening ride. That was to interface nicely with a family member who was behind in their training and needed to start riding by 4:30 to get it done and off to their day commitments on time. Broken Arrow VK Simulation I decided to try a Broken Arrow simulation and set the Stryd app to 24% and thus the treadmill to 24%, and walked at about a 230+ Watt average power for 70:00 minutes. I managed to get in 2.8 miles, 3550′ of elevation gain, so right about spot on for the Broken Arrow VK. It was tough, and I’m sure it…

  • incline treadmill training,  vk training

    Catching Up With My VK Training

    Today was interesting, to say the least. Work has been a struggle, as we’re moving into a new building which is apparently an owners’ wet dream, but downgrading the employees even more than in the current building, if that’s at all possible. I won’t go into details, but right now we’re sitting elbow to elbow at kids picnic tables holding hands, singing Kumbya, and getting nothing at all done. The Google studies this nonsense was based on used interns (slave labor) and they believed that if they were super productive they’d get their own offices, but instead were let go at the end of their counter-intuitively productive runs. That stress…

  • Video

    Run Up Tibble Fork To Granite Flats

    I was doing a pretty stiff pace uphill, totally booking it downhill and I did two laps of that. Recorded with Suunto 9 Baro, exported to Stryd, then exported video to iMovie and here we are. Powered by WPeMatico