January 3, 2010
Run: Union Reservoir (8.73 mi @ 07:51)
Plan called for Brisk 5M but I opted not to. I would have burnt out in less than a mile. So I did another slow loop around the reservoir. Packed snow on a lot of this route so it is slower than usual. Need to get a better road course during snowy days for brisk workouts.
On Jan 1, I went off caffeine — again. This is traditional training cycle routine for me these days. Over the holiday break, I consumed a vast amount of Diet Mountain Dew. Normally at home, I restrict my intake to maybe a liter a day. Here I was trying to get through a case that my Mom had bought me so I just kept drinking them. The funny thing was the more I drank the more I wanted. It was like an endless cycle of no satisfaction. In the end, I just felt dumb because I know that there is no nutritional value in this stuff. Anyway, the headaches came and went yesterday and now the shakes are over. I am free of the vice once again. Sometimes I get a little more shake out a week after. So I will stay clean for a while just to give my body a break. One of these times, I probably will be over this and just not start it up again. I truly hate being fit and health conscience and then ordering a Diet Coke to drink — makes me feel stupid. But NutraSweet has me by the balls. High Fructose Corn Syrup tastes like shit.
Thinking that I am going to swap out my weekly Sanitas hill work for its bigger neighbor for a while. I think I will get more out of a longer sustained effort. Then return to Sanitas in the spring time and bust a cap in its ass.
All those comments from the other day have me thinking about Lake City now. Wondering if we can manage just a 2 week running vacation with the family. Lake CIty then Leadville. Maybe via RV? Road trip the whole thing? Coming out of that I could imagine being tired as hell but feeling like I put the miles in prior to the big dance.
I went 8.73 miles with an elevation gain of 199 feet in 01:08:36, which is an average pace of 07:51. View my GPS data.
