Friday Thoughts 85
Welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Thoughts! Let’s get into it.
Up Next
I signed up for the Loon Mountain Race to scratch my hill up race itch. I’m bummed to have miss Mount Washington the race—it’s hard to get into and that in itself makes it fun—but mostly, I’m upset I missed out on a massive vert day to build some more fitness.
Despite that, I had a good week of training. I felt fresh from the taper, and hit a few fast paced efforts and it was a nice reminder that when building fitness, sometimes it doesn’t feel like it until you’ve given your body time to recover. I don’t know how much training I can cramp into the next 23 days, but I think it’s going to be a lot.
FAST MILE
Join us on Saturday!
Where: GAIN
When: 9am
What: a nice long warm up and a 6-minute baseline test.
REMEMBER: you cannot fail the baseline test, it’s just to see where you’re at. The main reason it’s 6-minutes and not a mile is to take some of the pressure off of executing the whole thing we’re trying to train for. Having a good plan for pacing and expectation that you’ll give it a 9/10 effort (not a 10/10 like the will be mile), should take the pressure off.
The Great One
Gotta love the polo workout shirt.
Throwing and athleticism
I loved the sentiment of this post— don’t specialize in only your sport, be an athlete.
Coach T Sent me this
This is a clip about what it means to be healthy and fit. I think a sub six mile might be a touch ambitious for the regular exerciser, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Stay cool this weekend, and hydrate if you’re out having fun in the heat!
—Justin Miner
@justinminergain