Category: Mel’s Life
Trail Master List
| May 16, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Current Post Listings Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grouped by region East of Marysville HWY 20 (Grass Valley, Nevada City area) South Yuba State Park (running: poppy pass or fee) – part 1 Cascade Canal Trail (running: free parking) – part 2 Empire Mine (running, riding: free parking) – part 2 Stevens Trail (running: […] more
Trail Guide part 2
| May 15, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Trails featured in this post: Magnolia/Cronan on HWY 49 near Cool Driver’s Flat near Foresthill Sutter Bike Trail, Yuba City Cache creek trail heads – Judge Davis, Cowboy Camp, High Bridge Cascade Canal Trail, Grass Valley/Nevada City Empire Mine, Grass Valley In case you missed it, here’s part 1 with all the “use at your […] more
Trail Guide part 1
| May 12, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Trails featured in this post: Shanghai Bend, Yuba City Feather Falls South Yuba State Park, near Penn Valley Do you live near me in Northern CA? Are you trying to figure out where the best trails are to get training miles in? These posts are going to bore the hell out of anyone not in […] more
April IRL 2016
| May 11, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
Most important lessons learned this month. 1. The simple trick to getting conditioning miles done If I have time to squeeze in a run or run….DO IT NOW, don’t put it off. Don’t give up a 30 min run (or ride) now in favor of a planned 1 hour (or more) session tomorrow. Just go running. Because […] more
An Honest Assessment
| April 18, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Training journal, Ultra Running |
When it’s raining (again) and you can’t get on the trails, there are two choices: eat brownies or think too hard about what is a very simple sport (get on trail, go far). I’ve written about conditioning plans and why it’s so essential to not blindly follow a generic x weeks to get to x […] more
March 2017 IRL
| April 1, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Training journal |
It’s time for an In Real Life post! Where I share with you my training and goals as the months go by “in real time” so my Dear Reader can see for themselves that training for 50 or 100 miles isn’t insane – it’s a bunch of small things that add up, and yes it’s totally […] more
Just one more thing
| March 8, 2017 | Posted by Melinda under Being Mom, Mel's Life |
Let me tell you the difference between running/blogging/riding prior to having a kid-let and after. It’s not the amount of time or energy I have. It’s how much closer I am to that “one last thing” that results in me getting nothing done. Anything that happens out of the ordinary pushes me back to the […] more
