Today is one of those soul cleansing days, a day where you wring out anything bad from your body and mind through good living and hard training. This morning from 6:30-7:30 was a jog and isometric strength. Then breakfast. And I love breakfast, here is what I ate & I wish that I could eat this every day (hint, hint mom for when I come home): canteloupe slices, a kiwi fruit, a grapefruit, a plain yoghurt, strawberries, mango & walnuts in my oatmeal, hard boiled egg (but not the yolk). So much good fruit, I take a banana and orange for after our morning workout too.

At 8:30 we got in the van and drove to Whiteface Mtn to do ski walking intervals. 6x5min at 4mmol (=level3 =threshold =hard-but-not-too-hard) lactate. My lactate was high until the last two because it was such a gorgeous, cold, crisp, sunny day in the mountains that I just wanted to GO. And a lot of the other skiers were doing harder intervals so I wanted to go hard too. Anyway, it felt good, and I finally chilled out by the end to get my lactates down.

After the intervals I got my wish to go hard because then we got to do 4x60sec bounding intervals, all out, level as-hard-as-you-can-go. Caitlin and I did them together, I was timing. On our first one, we got to what I thought would be close to a minute and I glanced at my watch, and then I cursed (which doesn't happen very often) because my watch said 33, which meant that we had only gone 27 seconds and I was already exhausted. Bounding is hard. Or as Caitlin says, "This isn't very easy."

We made it back to the OTC at noon, showered and then went down to the training room to take a ten minute ice bath. Woo-hoo, submerging the lower half of your body in 55 degree water feels good. During which I sketched Brian Gregg without looking at my sketchbook or lifting my pencil off the paper. I think it made him uncomfortable but at least when he complained about how big I drew his hand I knew that what I was drawing vaguely looked like a person. Then lunch time. Now I am typing this and Kate Whitcomb just drew me a line drawing of a beastly truck which I will try to recreate drawing it upside down so I focus on drawing the lines and not a truck.

Then I will sleep until 3 when I will go to the training room and get some hip releases done (good stuff, but a little painful), and have an afternoon bowl of cereal. Then practice again at 4, running and weightlifting, until 6. And then it will be dinner time and then it will be bed time. Usually we get together at 8 for an hour to go over video of us or others training. So if people wonder what I do all day, there's an example; it's a lot of training/eating/sleeping.