Médoc or Not? 2025 Training |
We'll see if my spot on the waiting list gets lucky . . . sadly it did not.
Training Schedule
| Week | Ran (km) | Rode (km) | Yoga Sessions | Weekend Weigh In (kg) | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 102.4 | |
| 17 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 101.6 | Bludenz läuft 2025 Fohrenburger Halbmarathon |
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 104.1 | |
| 19 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 102.5 | |
| 20 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 100.3 | SOLA Staffete |
| 21 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 99.7 | |
| 22 | 31 | 0 | ? | ? | |
| 23 | 6 | 0 | ? | 101.1 | |
| 24 | 5 | 0 | ? | ? | |
| 25 | 15 | 0 | ? | 100.2 | |
| 26 | 28 | 0 | ? | ? | |
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2 July 2025 - Chämptnertobel - 6 km
30 June 2025 - Küsnacht - 3 km
29 June 2025 - Katzensee - 22 km
Well, I did not get into Medoc.
24 June 2025 - Batöni - 13 km hike
23 June 2025 - Chämptnerbach Tobel - 6 km
19 June 2025 - Bäretswil - 15 km hike
19 June 2025 - Erlenbach - 2 km
18 June 2025 - Erlenbach - 4 km
10 June 2025 - Zollikerberg - 5 km
6 June 2025 - Erlenbach - 3 km
5 June 2025 - Erlenbach - 3 km
1 June 2025 - Rimini to San Marino - 19 km
29 May 2025 - Erlenbach - 6 km
I really hate that Strava doesn't let you save square maps anymore. We've done this route a couple times in the past couple weeks hiking, but today we ran and actually recorded. Running in Italy should help me deal with all the negative emotions from work this past week.
21 May 2025 - Erlenbach - 3 km
17 May 2025 - SOLA Stafette - 13 km
11 May 2025 - Chämptner Tobel - 6 km hike
10 May 2025 - Ziegelbrücke to Ussbühl - 13 km hike
9 May 2025 - Chämptner Tobel - 4 km
4 May 2025 - Zug to Luzern - 33 km hike
Still a bit of a cold, but now up for some serious hiking. Today I took the dogs on a hike from Zug to Luzern. The morning was sunny and warm, but the afternoon saw on and off rain. And we're camping on the shore of the Vierwaldstädtersee.
1 May 2025 - Amden to Ziegelbrücke - 11 km hike
27 April 2025 - Bludenz - 7 km
26 April 2025 - Bludenz - 13 km hike
I think it's the first time I've downgraded from a longer race to a shorter one, but tomorrow I'm running the 7K instead of the half marathon. The current cold I've been nursing has really sapped my energy.
20 April 2025 - Immensee - 4 km hike
I am still sick, but today we managed a hike on the shore of the Zugersee.
This week I've been forced to rest as a cold has laid me low over the past three days. Hopefully it's three days coming and three days going as my mother used to say. I have another half marathon to run in Austria next weekend. Then in May I'm on a team running Zürich's big relay race, the SOLA Staffete, which I've learned is something like the Japanese 駅伝 (ekiden). Of course I spend too much time on the internet though, so in reading about the death of Gene Hackman and his wife I discovered that my symptoms are also consistent with a deadly hantavirus that one can pick from dealing with rodent droppings like I did a few weeks ago in Bergen 😬
16 April 2025 - Adetswil - 2 km
14 April 2025 - Budapest - 5 km
So today I missed the second signup window for the Marathon des châteaux du Médoc. They open two windows at random times in March and it sold out in both in under an hour. Ugh. I am now on the waiting list and won't find until June (I think) if I got a spot. I need to want to do less popular races I suppose. Nevertheless, I like to plan my training ahead of time. So, get it or not, I will be training for it. So as a consolation I went ahead and signed up for a 3rd half marathon in April in Bludenz, Österteich which will also be my 3rd new country of the year raced in.
