Enough about home though, for now Missoula is home, and I am glad to be back! It took a little bit to get settled in, as I moved out of the dorms (finally) and moved into a new house with a few guys. Being out of the dorms really makes me feel at home here more than before. I actually have somewhere to go that I have my own space and can make my own food and just relax. It is already better than I expected moving out to be, and I had high expectations. Its also nice to be back because I get to see Taylor every day now. Going home was hard for that, with neither of us having transportation and living 20 miles from eachother we rarely got to be together. All in all life is going well right now with just running and hanging out. I need to get back to work, the cash flow has been going only one way for the last 6 weeks and its becoming very noticeable.
As far as running, everything is in a somewhat weird place right now. I am more motivated to get out and do work outs and race, but my legs are not. I have done two work outs and one race now and every one of them was exactly the same, my lungs asked for more and faster, my legs said your killing me from beginning to end. I know part of it is the fact that I am still working with my inner thigh injury situation, but that is slowly getting better. Fortunately I have been able to build the mileage back up again and after running today should be about 75 miles for this week. Which I am ecstatic about considering how my mileage usually is during the seasons.
Ultras. My love and desire to run one is still growing. Somewhat at a scary rate due to where I am in my running career, but its something that will have to sit in the back of my mind and used as only a tool to carry higher mileage, but I have no real plan of racing one any time soon. I am tossing around the idea of racing two or three this summer though. My dreaming plan would be doing two local and low key 50k's for preparation for the White River 50 miler at the end of July. This again is all just dreaming with very little real application. But if I am able to carry 80-100 mpw through indoor and outdoor track, this dream may be put more towards the front of my mind, hopefully all working out with doing RAGNAR this year.
I know this has been a very sporadic post with thoughts just put out there as they come to my mind with very little order and marginally connect to each other, but I want to end with talking about my indoor track debut. First off, indoor sucks, through and through. The track is awkwardly banked and almost spongey just sucking energy from my legs. The air is stagnant and way to warm making it difficult to breathe. As far as my race, I ran the 3k. I had set a perfect situation goal of 8:46 before altitude adjustment, but knew that i would more likely run in the 9- range. Well it was even worse that that... 9:14 before adjustment. Which is about a 9:50 2 mile. In all honestly this is probably not to bad of a showing of the shape that I am in right now. As far as the race itself there isn't a lot to talk about, it hurt like hell, really early in the race. But I fought through a lot of it better than I was in cross country and ended up beating some people I never have before, all in all it wasn't terrible, I am just hoping for a big improvement next week at WSU.
Here are some pictures from the last while, well only snowshoeing, I don't know where snowmobiling and other pictures are currently.
