Peaking

Right before Beano decided to destroy me in the 3000 last week.




Peak weekend is coming up and most of the guys team is pumped for the annual tradition of running ourselves into the ground. Every fall SLU puts someone on 46 of the tallest peaks in the ADKs. Every year the nordic guys get stuck/choose MT Allen. 6 mile run in, bushwacking up for 4-5 back down and out. It gets pretty ugly, the first year I had to walk the last 2 miles out in dead last. It vaporizes shoes and makes you resort to eating some pretty gross stuff. The best part is that we have St. Regis the day before. St. Regis is one of our fall tests, around 40 minutes I think of all out trail running a smaller mountain. I have never won, I was second freshman year, off the back sophmore year (a formal the night before, Kalie almost caught me) and last year Beano got me. So we will see, Beano has been killing testing winning no pole testing and the 3000 but Ziz and I ran up the mountain all summer... so we'll see.

Zach and I had to test this week because we missed it over the weekend because we had planned on going to a concert at Burke months ago. It was a sick show, highlighted with Grace Potter (Slu alumn) killing it on a perfect fall night. Zach, Graham and I stayed at the cabin and it was almost worth the horrible drive from SLU.

Anyway Zach and I did testing by ourselves and Ziz ended up setting a new best time for double pole out at Browns Bridge (8 min uphill) I was really happy with second since I never really test well and I wasn't feeling %100. In no pole testing Beano's best held out winning by over a minute over Ziz, I was fourth with Pepper ahead of me.

So testing was good, this weeks training has been good with a skate on monday, good long hard skate tuesday with Beano involving my first fall on rollerskis. Testing Wed, easy run out at the Higley Wiggley yesterday. I feel like I am soaking up my training pretty well. Next week I go on mid semester break on wed so I am heading up to Burke I think for a little rest and some good training.

Thats about it from here, I will post some pictures of the epic weekend once I get them. adios.