Closing in on the BMT

There is just under two weeks before the Boulder Mountain Tour. This will be my last hard week of training before the gun goes off. I taper next week with short duration, light intensity workouts and eliminate the strength training altogether.

I’ve been focusing on race pace intensity and course distance workouts. I think I have my heart rate figured out and know where my lactate threshold is. I hope to keep this under control for the race and not let the excitement push me outside the envelope. Last year’s experience was too painful to repeat; I let myself get carried away and blew up early in the race. With any luck I hope to reserve my energy for the back end of the course.