Sun Mountain 50K or My One-Week Training Plan
our amazing race photo I was on a flight back from Hawaii when I got a text from my Bellingham running buddy, Laura. She was thinking about signing up for the Sun Mountain 50K . It was a week out. My first thought was basically, why not, what could possibly go wrong? So that was that. For the record, here's my full training plan. Day 1: get the text on a plane, say yes before I can think it through. Days 2 through 6: nothing. No extra miles, no tapering (hard to taper off nothing) Then race week showed up, and I was in the van, headed to Winthrop the long way, since Highway 20 still wasn't open. campsite view from the van A lot of the racers camped right at the start/finish line, and I was one of them. It's always a good scene the night before a race. This time, that meant catching up with my coach Alicia and a folks from the Bellingham Trail Running Club (BTRC) before we'd even started running. Laura and all the flowers Laura and I never actually talked about whethe...