P.S. I Love You!

Ah, Palm Springs! We just love this place, and once again, a week of blissful sunshine awaits us in this little California desert paradise. We spent last week mostly relaxing, lounging around the pool, hiking the Indian Canyons and spending tons of time with our little girl. As always, we also took advantage of the great public swimming pool at Sunrise Park, where I was able to put in two solid swim workouts. My running, unfortunately was not so smooth. While I did get out on my 4 mile loop three times, I was hampered by some strange tummy trouble and pain. Well maybe jsut a bit too much sun. Now we are back in New York and it is raining cats and dogs outside. Oh well . . .

A Semblence of Routine

Once I returned back to New York a few days ago, both Roy and Kiera were sick with a cold, but spring finally arrived in the city. So out of the basement the bike finally came, and we circled Prospect Park twice last week, added my usual once-a-week masters swim workout and put in a good run and short weight session as well. Since one of those bike rides was actually my first early morning workout this season, last week was almost like a routine early season .training week

Endless Winter

As if winter has not been long enough, a trip to a ski travel conference in Vail, CO clearly was not the best choice to finally get a bout of the spring fever. On the first day out, instead of a few hours of spring skiing, I was deep into fresh powder, battling the mountain and bad visibility. Most of the time, though, I was working and preparing for a presentation. What was most striking though, was how much the high elevation troubled me. At almost 9.000 feet, and skiing up to 11.500 I had trouble sleeping, getting headaches and ran out of breath fairly easy running up some stairs or so. Though I have been to Vail a few times before, this was the first time the elevation had bothered me that much. Suffice to say that, besides a few hours of hard skiing, I did nothing else in terms of training.