High Five By 55

Current Training Focus: 10K training to build some leg speed before beginning Chicago Marathon training. Current Training Plan: Jack Daniels 5K/10K Phase II Week 1 Plan Week's Intention: run easy, continue to let the tweaked hamstring heal, perhaps test the hamstring with some strides to see if I'm ready for some faster work. Summary: after last week's hamstring strain, I was leery to push very hard this week. I had felt fairly good after running all easy last week, but did have some soreness and tightness in the hamstring after last Sunday's long run. So this week I went in expecting to run all easy miles. Overall, the week went well, the hamstring was slightly sore from time to time, but nothing of any consequences. I was even able to run some decent strides and a tempo run without any negative consequences. Good progress, and I'll return to the 10k training plan next week, but backing the interval paces off a bit. Monday: (Nike Vomero 17) 6.30 miles @ 8:39/mile ...

I'm thinking I'm going to take a shot at writing a weekly training review each Sunday after my long run throughout this High Five By 55 project. No particular goal with this, just a summarizing of what I've written in my training log and my daily planner. A space to process the week a bit. I'm not quite sure of the format to do this best, so will just try some things, not feel too constrained, and see what works out. Current Training Focus: 10K training to build some leg speed before beginning Chicago Marathon training. Current Training Plan: Jack Daniels 5K/10K Phase II Week 1 Plan Week's Intention: this was a repeat of last week's focus. Last week, I used it as an introduction to this type of speed work without making a big effort to hit the various prescribed paces. This week, I intended to go through the plan again, but with much more focus on hitting paces. Summary: this week was derailed on Tuesday, day 2. I headed out for the first quality session of the ...

I still want to do this thing. I still want to figure out how to become mountain capable enough and fit enough to finish the High Five 100 while predominantly training in Florida. And I want to do it by the time I turn age 55. All that said, I'm rethinking how I want to go about doing that. My initial plan had been to spend the years from age 46 to 55 practicing in the mountains by completing Hardrock qualifiers and chasing an entry into the Hardrock 100 Endurance Run. Then once that happened, running Hardrock (likely uncrewed) as the final puzzle piece before jumping into High Five 100. It was a fine plan. It was a plan that excited me in many ways. It was a plan that did have a big potential flaw in it.  The flaw, I want to be spending time and hiking and running in the San Juan mountains. Hardrock is in the San Juans, but none of the qualifying races are. At first, I figured that would be fine. It would be fun to travel to new places and experience different mountains. And that...