After three months of racing approximately every other weekend it’s finally time for a training block! I’m back home in Colorado and putting in a good 30 day altitude training block to get ready for November racing. Being from Florida, however, the concept of ‘seasons’ is new to me so last weekend’s snow was definitely a surprise. I learned a few things last week about living in a cold place:
1) Water fountains get turned off in the winter. This made my long run more interesting last weekend…yeah, I bonked.
2) Ice takes awhile to melt after the temperature goes above freezing. I narrowly avoided falling a few times last week on the way to the aquatics building.
3) If it’s cold then going up mountains is fine, but coming down sucks. Again, I’m from Florida so I just didn’t know these things!
The view outside my window. Icy!