My advice for anyone traveling to altitude is to run based on effort and keep it easy for the first two weeks as most of the running effort will feel tougher than normal. It can take at least two weeks to acclimatize and even then it will take more effort to run the same speeds.
The next two days were spent downhill skiing. Both my boys went to their first ski school and did great. Matt did a day and a half of lessons and Micah did a one hour lesson and did multiple trips on the magic carpet with Andi, Clark, and I. The boys enjoyed the ski lessons and far exceeded our expectations. There were so few people on the mountain that the boys both had private lessons and we felt like we had the resort to ourselves. Once at the bottom we could hop right back on the lift for another run. It was pretty cold though, the temp at the top (9850ft) was -9 degrees at 9:00am!
So I only got one run in over the last week, but we had a great vacation. I take that back, on the return trip we actually did get some track work in on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway!
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Sounds like a great vacation! I enjoyed the family pictures, especially the one of boys getting in some speed work. That area of Colorado is beautiful. In the spring of 2006 on our family trip to the Casper Marathon we spent a couple of days in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Love the pics.... Especially the track work..... but shouldn't they be crossing the finish line instead of running along it?
Dale, you are correct, except that because the speedway track is banked about 9% at the finish line it is much more fun to run up and down the hill. At least my boys thought so.
Mesa is a place I've been wanting check out, loved your pics.
I may have sneaked across the finish line at Leona 20 seconds before you last year... but you've got my marathon PR beat by 6 seconds! (2:57:17 San Francisco 2010)
Hopefully we will meet again soon for a rematch,
Chris
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