May was quite a month…
The intent was to leverage my Big Sur Marathon training and run the Horseshoe Lake 50K – which were separated by three weeks. That started out fine, but a tweaked knee on a 5/12 trail run and then getting a stomach virus that knocked me out of commission for fours days cut into my training/mileage. Still, it was a decent month, as you can see below. Since the 50K was on trails, road running dipped to 23%, trail running ended up at 49%, and bicycling at 28%.
After the 50K, I really dropped training and rested a bit more than I usually do – though that mostly had to do with my knee flaring up, visiting the doctor, and then being put on 10-days of complete rest from running and cycling. I did have one “first” this month: I did a “brick” workout: 8.25-mile ride + 3.43-mile run. It was interesting and, once I return to better conditioning, I may work those in occasionally. No business travel this month, so that was nice.
- HIGH: I ran a 50K! I’m an ultramarathoner!
- LOW: My knee issues
As far as new equipment, one this month:
- I picked up a Garmin 910XT. I had been thinking about getting one of these for a while and saw that they were $100 off at Road Runner Sports…so I jumped! I really like it and, violating the “no new equipment on races” rule, wore it for the first time on the 50K. It went great and I am still getting familiar with it.
With that, here are the stats for the month that was May 2013:
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