Friday, August 10, 2007

Dialing it back a bit...

So I am changing things up a bit. I was planning on heading out for the Palomar Challenge tomorrow. It looks like a killer time and it would for sure testing my climbing legs, but I am tired. Racing the last two weekends in a row and the big weeks that preceeded took quite a bit out of me. Last weeks race was a tough one and it took longer to recover from than I anticipated.

Palomar Challenge route:



Next week begins my specific build up to Tahoe and Maui. There will be more Xterra/race specific intervals and workouts so I need to be sure I get off to a good start. The last thing I want to do is crush myself this weekend and have half-assed workouts next week while I am trying to recover. So this weekend I will still be getting in the ocean, out on the roads and trails, but not pushing too hard. I am just going to kind of relax, drink some beers, bbq, watch some baseball, and get ready to hit it hard next week.





That's it...

2 comments:

Benson said...

Just looking at that climb profile gave me a nose bleed.

Good luck and good training.

Drew Holmes said...

Jdub you have to look up my tarining buddy Bruce while you are there. He won the PNW Exterra series in his age group up here and raced with me. good luck