Long run

1800

Run 1:18:25 up Mesa trail from Chautauqua trailhead

Rolling trail w/ lots of climbs, highly technical

Distance - 6.9 miles

3 x 13 chinups

iso lunges

• Notes: Planned on doing an hour run and trying to cover around 7 miles or so, but I completely underestimated the trail. It was WAY more technical than I remember, hardly any flat ground there were so many rocks, and very steep. I walked some of the uphills, but it was pretty slow going. Beautiful trail though. Had some other issues i'll talk about under nutrition.
• Sleep: Good. My sleep hasn't suffered much at all this summer, which has been great.
• Nutrition: Had some serious GI issues on the run, and I had to make a 1 mile detour to get to a toilet. This is the first time recently I can say I have seen issues from eating grains, as I had a big sub earlier in the day with a lot of bread and I think that was the issue. I can get away with it for lifting sessions, but before long runs like this I had just forgotten that I really need to lock up my nutrition before-hand. Lesson RE-learned.
• Body: Legs felt great on the run, no tightness, no aches, and hip flexor felt amazing. So happy. I had planned on doing cindy today but my upper body is pretty wrecked - shoulders, traps, triceps are all sore.
• General: Resting tomorrow, squatting wednesday. I have basically until the end of july to get the rest of my hard work in before I will be taking some off time in August with travel. Then I will be back in Boulder and its marathon time.