Busy Week

     This week has been crazy busy, but the good news is that I have not skipped a training day.  I have just postponed blogging about them. 
     I still have not gotten around to changing out the bike tubes, so my cycling this week has been limited to spinning at the gym.  That's fine by me.  Now that it is getting darker earlier and the morning light has disappeared as well, I think a lot of my rides will be at the gym or on a trainer anyways.  The only bad thing about the gym spin is that sometimes the instructor gets carried away with sprints and jumps and all I really want to do is keep a steady pace and heart rate.  This morning I found my self OFP (own F#@king Program) while the rest of the class played along.  It worked great for me, I was able to get in a great workout without causing too much of a distraction to others.
     Last night was run club and it was a fantastic workout.  We teamed up in groups of threes and ran relays.  I ran six 400m sprints in sets of three with a three minute rest in between.  During the sets my rest was only as long as it took the other two members of my group to run their 400's.  It was actually really fun.  It broke up the monotony of running intervals all of the time, and it made me push it a little harder.  Its hard to pull up short when you just watched a teammate sprint the last 150m of his lap to put us in second before the hand off.  We managed to stay in second or third for most of the sets, but the sprinters always took over on the last 400m and bumped us down.  I wasn't really keeping track that intently, so I will just say we great.
     Coming up in the next few days I have a couple of light runs scheduled leading up to the Boulder Half Marathon on Sunday.  Initially I was going to run the full, but after the 4 Mile Canyon fire pushed it back two weeks, it would be insane for me to attempt the Boulder and Denver Marathons within on two weeks rest.  It would set me back more than it would offer.  I still plan on taking on the Denver full in a few weeks. 
     The next few days continue to be crazy, so wish me luck in Boulder!