I am not going to fool myself into thinking that you are all waiting with baited breath to hear what happened at the big trail run in Canada. But, also, I am not going to fool myself into thinking that […]
Category: Altitude Sickness
Crushing fatigue and malaise pre-race
By Brady Crain This week I had big plans for a push. Crushing fatigue and malaise put an end to that idea. I am overtrained, and so my last big workout was ten days before my event. This week I […]
Running up peaks, the final weeks of training — preparation questionable
By Brady Crain The view from about halfway up Ascutney Mountain on Tuesday, June 16. It quickly clouded over and the peak was socked in in no time. This week was a rough one for training. I have stopped lifting […]
Back at it from a different direction
By Brady Crain While they look alike, Pip is a feral version of Stinky Pete. So I stand kind of corrected as to the rest period being beneficial, yet again! In the end, despite my initial worry, I did not […]
Altitude Sickness: Cathartic exersize, of love and loss
My rest period theory was incorrect. The rest was welcome and I popped off several shorter uphill/downhill runs at record paces, but when I went for a longer run (up Killington Road and up Killington Peak to the top […]
Altitude Sickness: “rest period”
I am giving myself a rest period for a week or so to recuperate from my 28+ mile run. There were no real bad side effects to the run, mind you, but I think that given the nature of that […]
Slap squish slap squish slap squish
Courtesy of Brady Crain Crain in 1997 at 235 pounds. “#$%@#$ *#$% God @#$*%^& stupid @#$*% East Mountain Road!” After my big run last Friday, I did a bunch of basic recovery stuff, hiking, biking, and skiing. Sunday I went […]
Altitude sickness: too hot and tired to cry
By Brady Crain The view from Deers Leap looking out to Route 4 and Pico Mountain. One of the perks of running trails is view like this! It’s been an interesting week of training. Last week I did an 18.11-mile […]
Altitude sickness
A gangly nerd avenges his past with extreme forays into athletics I was born a sickly child. Asthma, pneumonia, and scarlet fever frequented my childhood home. Moving to Vermont at the end of my seventh year, I grew up a […]