Breathing Better

On Saturday night my neighbor invited me to a little get together at the hostel a couple of blocks away. The guy running the show over there goes by "Crazy."  It turns out he is from somewhere in Mississippi originally.  The dinner was really good.  We ate in the backyard which looked like this.

































Two of the guests for dinner were some older guys.  I am not sure what made them act the way they did, but I was not a fan.  One of them had done the 100 mile bike race a bunch of times, and the other had done the 100 run several times (I think this is correct, I never actually asked them, since I was mostly trying to avoid any real conversation while they were talking about the races).  It seemed as if their whole point was to talk me out of running for some bizarre reason.  They were the first people I have met that haven't been completely supportive.  I just stayed quiet for the most part (hard to believe, I know).  During conversation on any other topics they were just fine to talk to, but their attempts at discouragement will just serve as added motivation during training and during the race.


I find that if I walk fast for about 5 minutes to start the run, and then only gradually increase my pass to cruising speed, I don't have the breathing issues.  I also think part of the problem, at least when I ran with Christy, is that we're competitive, so the pace was too quick for me.

This morning I parked at Lodgepole again, but instead of turning left immediately, and heading down Pipeline, I went straight to hook up with the Colorado trail (part of the race course).  As usual, I missed the turn early, and retraced my steps after turning around at the hour mark.  I found something that look pretty good, and ran down it for a while, and then eventually found the Colorado trail.

I ran fairly decently, and did not have as much trouble breathing as the past few days.  I will try a similar distance (5hrs) tomorrow.  Then I need to take it fairly easy until run camp this upcoming weekend.  We are running 25, 20, and 10 in consecutvie days.  All of these days will be on the race course, and day 2 is over Hope Pass and back.

Check out the pictures below from today's run.  I came across 3 antelope while running, but could not get  a good picture of them with my phone.  Maybe next time.

(I always wanted to know where those Bob Ross trees grew that were just a line up with a few sparse dabs of the end of a paint brush coming off of them, then there it was, "a happy little accident, no mistakes.")