More than a little late on this one.
255 miles with 17k of gain.
As March turns to April, coaching track turns into a full-time job that’s more time consuming than my day normal full-time job. Last Saturday, I had one 15-hour day at a meet in Pueblo, followed by another 15-hour day five days later ending at 2 am coming home from a meet in the Springs. Not an easy thing when you’re trying to run a law firm and raise a 3-year-old. Coaching in Salida, traveling to meets with good conditions and good competition invariably means long drives and late nights. It’s fun but it’s all consuming.
I’m doing a better job of maintaining my own fitness than in prior years. I wouldn’t say I’m at peak fitness, but I think I’m close enough to it where I feel I could get there fairly quickly if I had the bandwidth and the motivation to do it. Being a coach does lend itself to access to high-quality training partners, even if they are less than half my age.
Watching Boston got my slightly motivated to consider a road marathon in the fall/winter. We'll see if I have the motivation and energy to follow through with it when it's time to put the time in for it.
