6/08 – 6.3 Miles, ran the LOHI 5k Course, found out it was short.
6/09 – 5 miles at 6:59 pace
6/10 – 8 Miles
6/11 – 2 Miles in Vibram Five Fingers
6/12 – 4 Miles in Vibram Five Fingers
6/13 – LOHI 5k, 10 Miles Total
6/14 – 4 Miles in Vibram Five Fingers

Total 39.3 Miles

The Vibram Five Fingers, wow, I love them, I will post a review soon. I live close to Sloan’s Lake, thus I can run from my house to the lake, crossing a few people’s yards, make it to the lake for a nice four mile loop all on the grass, so it has been a blast.

OK week of training, not where I wanted to be though. However, picking up the Vibrams tossed me for a loop and resulted in shorter runs on two of those days since I was eager to try them out. I also had a 15 miler planned but bailed when the storm warnings hit one evening.

The Rocky Mountain Half Marathon had an impressive turnout, this year they had 1,497 finishers, last year they had 977 finishers. That is substantial growth over a year. One thing that I find odd is how the competition for the Rocky Mountain Half Marathon and Colfax Half Marathon do not seem to attract the faster runners. This year out of those 1,497 finishers only 28 finished in under 1:30. Wonder why that is, I realize that the course is difficult but still a 1:30 should not place you in the top 1.8% of a Half Marathon. My guess is a lot of the fast runners went down to race The Garden of the Gods 10 Miler, Simon Cheprot is cleaning up on the local race scene!

Also, what is going on in Boulder? The Boulder Marathon is on 9/20 and the brand new Indian Summer Half Marathon is the week before on 9/13, both races are run at the Boulder Reservoir. In addition, the Boulder Marathon now has to compete with the new Zooma Women’s Half Marathon which is also on 9/20. My guess is that both of these races will really draw participants from the Boulder Half Marathon. Be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Also, check out the RunColo Forum, several new race reviews have been posted by myself and others.