It was my final week as a consultant. For the past 9 years I have traveled nearly every single week. I mean traveled....gotten on an airplane on Sunday night, only to return (most weeks) on Thursday night. That part of my life is over. I wont go into it deeply, but it was a great time (and not so great times). But I did meet the life of my life, got to take really great vacations (mostly paid by work or by miles), got to visit friends all over the country on a moments notice, and found my new home of Boulder, all thanks to my travels.
During this time, training was sometimes good and sometimes bad, and sometimes down right impossible. Even I have said, you can train while traveling, you just have to make time for it. But my last project of 6months, I was working 12 hour days plus 5hours every other Saturday. With that stress, getting up a 5am to train was impossible most days. But there were good times, like the CRC group in Columbus Ohio, or the Elmhurst running club, in Chicago. Or even my Aunt Deb, who gave me keys to her apartment in NYC because it was literally next to the LES track, and I could come and go (and shower) as I pleased.
But that is done now. The wife and I took a nice vacation to Beaver Creek Colorado for the Food and Wine Festival for the weekend. This is a pic from our room at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek (which turned out to be a terrible resort). Now its time to enjoy Boulder 7 days a week, and hopefully get in some great training with great friends. This past week without difference in my work. Granted I did get to leave work a hour or two earlier, but it was too stressful and busy to fit in any decent training runs or workouts. I am consistently hitting 40miles a week, but no workouts. And thats far off my normal average, or necessary average of 70-80mpw with 2 workouts a week.
Hopefully now that I am working locally with only a 20min commute to Broomfield (WhiteWave Foods) I will be able to train like I should. It is less than 4 weeks until New Orleans Half Marathon. And I just found out that 2xOlympic Gold Medalist Mo Farah is going to be racing it as well. Not that I would have a chance to hang with him if I was in good shape, but it would have been nice to be in decent shape. 12 weeks away is Eugene Marathon. I would have loved to PR (Atlanta Marathon 2007, 2:40:15), but I think that goal is going to disappear. Boston Qualifier should be a reasonable goal and I am just going to set my sights on sub 3hours. I know that is tough for most of the running population and I am not trying to belittle it, but relatively it is quite slow for me. After New Orleans, I will likely readjust my goals, hopefully for the better.
Only time will tell.
During this time, training was sometimes good and sometimes bad, and sometimes down right impossible. Even I have said, you can train while traveling, you just have to make time for it. But my last project of 6months, I was working 12 hour days plus 5hours every other Saturday. With that stress, getting up a 5am to train was impossible most days. But there were good times, like the CRC group in Columbus Ohio, or the Elmhurst running club, in Chicago. Or even my Aunt Deb, who gave me keys to her apartment in NYC because it was literally next to the LES track, and I could come and go (and shower) as I pleased.
But that is done now. The wife and I took a nice vacation to Beaver Creek Colorado for the Food and Wine Festival for the weekend. This is a pic from our room at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek (which turned out to be a terrible resort). Now its time to enjoy Boulder 7 days a week, and hopefully get in some great training with great friends. This past week without difference in my work. Granted I did get to leave work a hour or two earlier, but it was too stressful and busy to fit in any decent training runs or workouts. I am consistently hitting 40miles a week, but no workouts. And thats far off my normal average, or necessary average of 70-80mpw with 2 workouts a week.
Hopefully now that I am working locally with only a 20min commute to Broomfield (WhiteWave Foods) I will be able to train like I should. It is less than 4 weeks until New Orleans Half Marathon. And I just found out that 2xOlympic Gold Medalist Mo Farah is going to be racing it as well. Not that I would have a chance to hang with him if I was in good shape, but it would have been nice to be in decent shape. 12 weeks away is Eugene Marathon. I would have loved to PR (Atlanta Marathon 2007, 2:40:15), but I think that goal is going to disappear. Boston Qualifier should be a reasonable goal and I am just going to set my sights on sub 3hours. I know that is tough for most of the running population and I am not trying to belittle it, but relatively it is quite slow for me. After New Orleans, I will likely readjust my goals, hopefully for the better.
Only time will tell.
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