After a good month and a half of taking things easy I've started easing into my base for the 2012 season. I had seriously considered taking a couple weeks completely off but in the end I figured that if nothing else I needed to compensate for my complete lack of dietary discipline. My ability to resist breakfast burritos is really quite pathetic. Non-existant, actually. And cold weather always makes me crave high energy density foods. Still, the easy running plus a few strength workouts each week has me eager to start logging some miles. Hopefully I can exercise a modicum of common sense and not build the mileage up too fast.
Speaking of common sense, or more specifically a lack thereof, I'm looking at the Jemez 50 and the Leadville 100 as my main races for 2012. With 13 weeks between them there should be plenty of time to mini-peak for Jemez, recover, and then hammer out one last block of specific training. Obviously Leadville is the more challenging of the two but I still want to run well at Jemez, even with the new course. The double crossing of Pajarito is likely to be pretty demoralizing.
The only other race that will definitely go on my calendar is the new Cedro Peak 45. I'm sure other things will pop up but I'm just going to wait and see how the season unfolds before I make any firm race plans. I've also got a few big adventure runs in the Pecos Wilderness that I'd like to pull off, and that I may opt to do in lieu of additional races.
In the meantime we'll see if the weather will let me swap out breakfast burritos for Pajarito repeats anytime soon:
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| Pajarito Mountain hill repeat set: 4 miles, 3200 feet of vertical. |
