Bedrock & Paradox

I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

Change and Doubt

Yesterday morning Chad and I were lounging around his house, after the Boi Genius hisself cooked up his usual fab, enormous breakfast. My legs were sore. Not fried by any means, but hurting. That, general mailasie and the weather combined to make going running as per the plan. Got me thinking about dropping running from the calender, the feasibility of training effectively for two major disciplines at the same time, etc. Enough to send emails out inquiring about the cash I’d get back if I did drop from the Coyote Two Moons.

Turns out I’d get about 50 of the 270ish we spent of registration, meals, and camping. Not worth it.

M patched a bit of my doubt, repaired some moral, and I rescinded my email. I’m running. I think.

In training for big events with high expectations, there seems to be a corner about three months out I have a hard time in turning. It’s all about putting in the little days, missing few, and then driving through to build fitness. I’ve done very badly at this. My training for the Red Hot won’t be what I want, and the KTR last year was much the same. I’m determined to not let that issue occur again. Three months out form the KTR is the middle of next month. So, the problem of juggling cycling and running, which means cutting back cycling and creating compelling running choices on a consistent basis. Starting now.

And yet, I have successes. A year ago a ride like the Quad Bypass was intimidating. Today, a ride like the APC is a foregone conclusion, one where I was able to keep the hammer down (gear whilling) all day. Room for improvement, but massively improved.

Denver app is out the door! Montana and Washington tomorrow! A new chapter awaits: graduate school!!!

DaveC

6 responses to “Change and Doubt”

  1. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    It really depends on why you are racing? You can do it all, but might not have the peak performance with the combined training that you might with more sport specific training. In other words, accept a little worse time/place in order to compete in more variety of events.Still, triathletes train in multiple disciplines and seem to manage. Maybe there are some answers in studying their training. Their longest events are only 12-15 hours, but still nothing to ignore since the long run is always at the end.www.slowtwitch.com

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  2. Chad Brown Avatar
    Chad Brown

    You know I would run with you if my Achilles was not giving me problems… nothing beats a solo run through the forest, it is up there with biking. I hope you stick with it and run….

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  3. Cellarrat Avatar
    Cellarrat

    Why is it that runners seem to complain about stuff that hurts more offen?Hense why I stick to the bike…Maybe ask Pete B he seems to have all the runing/ biking thing sort of figgured out…

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  4. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    hope the coyote two moons works out for you. that’s going to be a fun event. training for both running and biking sure has its ups and downs. i’m always doubting being able to make the transition in time but so far for me it’s worked out better than I typically expect. It occured to me the other day that the GDR is less than 5 months away but for at least the next 6 weeks every single ounce of my focus will be on prep., racing, and recovering from the ultrasport. It will certainly be later than ideal when I really do start seriously prepping for the GDR sometime in March (especially since I’ll also be training for a 100k running race in early May), but I think it’ll work out. this bouncing back and forth from one to the other isn’t ideal, but then rarely do things work out ideally if you focus solely on one thing. I like the diversions from running or biking i get when i’m focused on the other. right now running has been my focus for about 6 months and thus i’m going to be so eager to jump into gdr training in March. If I had been focused on biking for the past 6 months i’m not so sure i would approach my gdr training with the same hunger.

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  5. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    A very good point G! More than anything I find cycling more appealing these days because my base is far more robust, and thus training is “easier” in some respects. I just need to get over the fitness hump and things will equalize.

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  6. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    it’s funny, i’m exactly the same but with the opposite activity. it’s always a little harder for me to get focused on the biking because i know it’s more work for me to get over the hump. but then when i do i seem enjoy it almost as much as running.

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