Monday Check In

Another Monday, another new week!

If you see me walking slowly today-I’m coming off my 9th running of the More and More Difficult 50k. It’s a different course each year with plenty of technical and steep White Mountains terrain to navigate. I finished the full 33-mile course with 11,000ft of vertical gain just under my goal time of 12 hours. I’ll do a full account of the day later this week.

My focus of the week: recovery. My HRV has been tanking, and when I woke up at 3am to leave on Saturday morning, I had a sleep score of 54 and my HRV was 20 some-odd points off baseline. I’ll be extra cautious with the caffeine and try to get to bed as early as I can. Despite what the data days—I’m feeling pretty good, but I know from experience it might all hit me in a few days.

What do you have going on this week? What are you preparing for? And what can you do today the start the week out right?

—Justin Miner