Losing Track

I'm not sure which post is which.

I do know I'm very, very tired, but in a good way.

I put in my 8-miler this morning. A very long run, and I ran it on the trail to avoid pounding on my joints for 8 miles.

I'm wrapping up my running on the right note. I raised my cario conditioning and have brought my leg muscle stamina to a good point where I can transition to cycling workouts.

My experience with cycling is that leg strength and stamina are very different and very complimentary. Hills can sap strength very quickly if you don't have stamina, so workouts can be relatively short since I run out of energy.

I'll still have a steep (hopefully short, though) ramp-up, similar to my running. But like my running, I'm anxious to dig in so I can get the most of each workout. Because my training schedule for the race is a bit compressed, I want to be efficient with my time and effort.

Tomorrow I'll put it an evening run, just a short recovery run to flush out today's long run. I'll post next week's workout schedule tomorrow night. I hope the cycling goes well - meaning no crashing.