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Morning Road Running – Beginning Groove
After my amazing fun adventure running up and down both Tiger and Cougar Mountains near Seattle Washington, I had to make some decisions. The weather was awesome. Forties and raining. The trails were wet and smooth. I loved it. I managed to get in about seven or so miles each of the three days I had there. That’s about the most sequential running I’ve done in quite a while. I had some really good paces on the flats, uphill, and downhill. It was inspiring. But then I had to suffer from the backlash of that. Recovery sucked. With my goal of doing a VK this coming year, and possibly Elbrus,…
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Thinking of Quandary This Month
I’ve been chatting with my wife about my goals and plans for the coming year. One is to finally finish up Elbrus, Race or not. In discussing my plans in regards to finishing Elbrus, we thought that perhaps I should try to get in a once-a-month climb of Quandary, regardless of weather. Elbrus has atrocious weather you know. Cold and windy is the norm most summit days it seems. It’s only the non-summit days that you get beautiful blue skies. Since I was able to acclimatize so well for Orizaba in 2013, in spite of living here in Utah at the time, we considered that I could actually just test…
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Evolution of a Cyclist
Chain Reaction Cycles posted this on Facebook recently, and I realized just how very true this is. Evolution of a #cyclist #cycling #stravacycling #wahoofitness #kickrcore pic.twitter.com/e8FPmkZG70 — Charles Miske (@tripeakprod) November 20, 2018 Powered by WPeMatico
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Message From Moab 18 August
Sadly, it looks like Elbrus Race 2018 is out of the picture. Not enough time to get trained and peak, and get a visa, and get the High School Mountain Bike team I coach ready for the impending racing season. Powered by WPeMatico
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Road To Elbrus – Morgan in the Dark – 13 August
When I first began this whole idea of returning to Elbrus Race, like I did in 2010 and 2013, I hadn’t been running at all. I’d even quit running on the treadmill. Training to be a mountain biking coach, in spite of my limited technical skills. I even get to ride with some really super fast kids, so it’s tough work for me. I’ve been so injured this past year that it’s been hard to recover and keep up a lot of the time. For those of you who don’t normally follow me, or my adventures, I entered Elbrus Race 2010, but was unable to continue after a lazy cook…
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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…