Mondays are hard. Rest days make me think too much about everything. And I was thinking about lot of stuff on this Monday. I realized I "only" have 6 months to prepare for this and I don't feel anywhere near ready. That's like maybe 3 different cycles of 6-8 weeks! That's like nothing! How am I supposed to get ready to run 100M with just 3 cycles to build up to that. Like whaaat!? And then I also realized - last year, if anyone told me in the end of March that I'd be running 24hrs event with a goal of 50miles in about the first 12hrs I'd be like no fuckin way. That is NOT possible and why would I even do that. And how... well I did just that and without any specific training. Think about that again. I did it because I believed I could and I did it only to be able to run this 100M race. There is a lot of training days in those 6 months. I just have to trust the process...and my coach...to get me there. I can do this. 6 months is plenty of time if you focus on the right things. It's enough and will be okay... I'm NOT behind!
I really needed this run today. I felt like I don't wanna run at all, I was just feeling lazy, fat and just why am I doing this 😅. I was worried everything gonna suck after not running much for the past 2 weeks and I didn't wanna experience that. My legs were still sore and my back wasn't feeling great either. I knew I have to go. Consistency over motivation. I started and even the first K that's always on slight uphill felt good. My HR also wasn't as elevated anymore like on my last few runs. I still have runny nose but my which is just really annoying but breathing wasn't an issue. The first half was really good, the second got bit harder and then I had 3 strides. I actually tried to do them how you supposed to, gradually 😅. It was okay but I was slow. I even tried to go faster on the last one but it just wasn't there 🤣. Well fuck 😅. Hopefully it comes back!? We shall see...
Wednesday plan said strength only. Did I think about going for boxing class again? Absolutely! But then I realized it's Piglet's "second" birthday - aka year ago she was saved and survived massive emergency surgery - so it was time to celebrate. So we went for an ice cream, instead of me going for boxing. No regrets. The morning strength was terrible tho. I felt SO weak. For no real reason. But it was stupid. Like I usually do bicep curls with 15lbs and have no issue do 10 reps. Well I did 4 and I was done! I had to have a break, do 2, another break, 2.... and it was like that for every exercise I did. I just had no power. Weird.
Thursday was just a classic easy run with 40min of some work and 4x30s strides. It was an okay run but I was feeling it. I was just doing it. I ran bit faster than I should thinking if I run faster, I would finish sooner. Haha well that does not work when you are running on time and not distance, obviously. But somehow sometimes that just works to get me through a run like this. Strides felt bit better but still slow AF and it kicked my butt. I felt bit discouraged by that cause of those great intervals sessions I did in the past few weeks. The speed is not there right now and it sucks.
Friday was strength again! 45mins...let's say I didn't really follow that. I was feeling WAY better than on Wednesday so I wanted to take advantage of that. And I did. Very solid, full body workout for 1:15. TrainingPeaks was not happy with that. But screw you! Haha, ready for tomorrow's big day!
I had pretty good plan for today. It was supposed to be double trouble. Go for cross country skiing finally cause we got lots of new snow and then follow that with climbing a mountain. As I was getting ready and bringing stuff to the car, I was really surprised how much snow we actually got! TONS! Off to Canmore. About 20mins into the drive, I started to think about turning around and going home because the roads were really bad. And I was thinking is it even worth it. But passed all the turnaround points...and got to CNC. I have never skied there. And to be honest, I got bit anxious when I saw all these people that looked like pros. I can't really ski. I just do my best but my technique is definitely laughable. I can do any downhill no problem and love downhills and going fast, but any flats and uphills, it's just a struggle. Luckily I picked trails where I barely saw anyone in the beginning. Very steep uphills tho. When I got somewhere where it finally leveled up, I found out my skis or the snow was super slow. So even those few downhills were kinda meh. I forgot to fuel. Not good. Skiing is hard when you don't know how to do it properly. When I got back and saw how long it took me to ski that distance I laughed cause I could definitely run that way faster. Oh well. It was fun tho and I'm glad I got to ski at least once in 2025. Now for the trail run/hike. I drove up to Ha Ling. There was lot of snow. I sat in the car for a bit, it was windy, snow was blowing and I saw these 2 people coming down and saw how deep the snow was... and I just didn't wanna go. I was like This is gonna just suck. I'm not gonna even summit when it's this windy and what's the point really... so I decided to go home. Instant regret and thinking that I'm such a pussy. Such a baby! I thought about turning around and going back and just doing that freakin hike! But I did not. I went home. Ate and had a nap. And then it took me like an hour to make myself go for a run. Was planning max hour and half even tho we planned for 4hrs on feet with coach for today. But I was like there is no way I wanna run for 2hrs on pavement. I finally got out of the door. With one bottle, two gels and some Nerds. Should be sufficient for hour and half, right? At first I thought I could go down to Weaselhead but it was already after 6pm and that spot to me is for whatever reason kinda sketchy so I just went my regular route around, planned to maybe go up to the hospital and turn around there and go back over the dam and back home. I felt pretty good tho. So I just kept running. At the hospital I thought, okay just to Heritage park. But there I was like Well might as well do the whole loop now... few more kms down the road I realized I might not make it through Weaselhead before sunset. And then I had to go to the bathroom...luckily at the last parking lot - which was a little detour - there is a building with heated bathrooms! I was saved haha. But that took some time and sunset was coming... this was not an easy run, at all. Also the conditions on this side were pretty rough, basically since the sailing club, the trail was covered in snow. I tried to run as fast as I could. Oh did I mention that I had almost no fuel?! So anyways... I felt bit uneasy when I dropped down to the wilderness hah. But luckily I didn't see anything or anyone. Made it through alive and with lots of light still. I was even able to jog VERY SLOWLY the last killer hill. And even the last uphill stretch home, I wasn't as slow as I thought even tho I was dying hah. I could've powerhike Ha Ling. But instead I did this 20K. Why make it easier for myself right... I think I'm gonna regret this tomorrow.
Recovery shuffle might be fun, if you don't decide to do it on treadmill. I don't know why I always think it's gonna be easy. It never is. It always sucks and I just keep doing it over and over and over... 45mins felt like forever. First 20mins were okay but then I was just counting minutes...
2 months down, 6 more to go. Not the best few weeks but hopefully next one will be back to "normal".
46.3 K run + 12.7K ski / 7:02
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