Classic Mountain Highway Run

September 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Good week of training. 5 solid days 3 being strength days, a Grouse Grind on Tuesday, Hill Repeats on Wednesday and a killer HILLY long run. The other 2 workouts were easy 50:00-1:10 minute runs. The long run was another classic Vancouver ultra training route the base of Grouse->Lynn and return to Grouse Chalet via Mountain Highway. This is a hard ass long run. It’s been well over a year since I’ve done this one so it was a bit of a shock to the system, the run was a bit scary also, I was solo and coming across a lot of fresh bear poo going up Mountain Highway and was just hoping that I would not run into one (although at the end I was hurting quite a bit and may have welcomed a bear attack to put me out of my misery). My legs feel sapped of all speed at this point in my training but this is what is needed to build the monster… only about 5 more weeks of this torture and I should be ready (hope I can hold the bones together).