I had a very solid week training and work wise both. We had a half day Monday from work in order to go to the monthly CRAFT meeting. Interns from all the member farms gather at one farm, and the resident farmer teaches a 2 hour lesson on some aspect of farming, from horticulture issues like pest control and soil fertility, to business and the nickels and dimes of it. Finally we all sit down to a great pot luck. It was over late, so I didn’t have time to squeeze in a mtn bike or other cross training. I chalked it up to a good rest day.
I also worked a half day thursday, since I knew I would have to work a half day Sunday to harvest for the farm stand that we just opened this weekend. I also only ran about 4 miles on Thursday instead of 5 because I was feeling very fatigued and sore. Come the weekend, however, I felt very good. I worked about 6 hours on Saturday picking for the farm stand and doing tractor work. Then I had an excellent, though very steep and tough, run in Macedonia state park. Sunday I worked a short harvest again and then ran an easy 8 with a bit of steep hill in the middle mile to mile and a half. I’m feeling good after my fisrt 5 day training week in a while, not to mention a long work week.
I am going to include more detailed weekly mileage information from now on, to make the blog a better training record for myself.
Mon : 0 Tues :6 Wed: 4 Thurs:4 Friday: 0 Saturday: 7 Sunday: 8 Weekly Total: 29 Hills: Tough Sat., mild Tues. and Sun.
