While 66% of the MOD Squad is duking it out over the pond in Norway, I’ve been focusing these last few weeks on rebuilding strength and fitness following having mono, which I estimate lost me about a month and a half of training.br /br /So far things have gone well. I was able to get in a few good strength sessions, rollerskis and some long-ish runs this week for a total of 14 hours, which is twice as much as I had for all of October. It’s amazing how fast the fitness does come back and heart rates come down, but I also notice that my body isn’t there quite yet. I’m not getting much above level 1 for any of these workouts, and am taking today completely off to allow the work to soak in. This coming week I’m hoping to get in some speedwork to start tuning the legs a bit, and with luck I’ll be on snow in a week or two!br /br /Here are a few pictures from a late fall run over Spokane Gulch:br /br /div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mg2hQbkHkNs/TOGQ5EXodyI/AAAAAAAAAgE/OrwLE7SBXV4/s1600/P1010359.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mg2hQbkHkNs/TOGQ5EXodyI/AAAAAAAAAgE/OrwLE7SBXV4/s320/P1010359.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539868326742226722″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-style: italic;”Looking upwards to Washington Pass – not a lot of snow yet!br /br //spana onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Mg2hQbkHkNs/TOHIrAHFm-I/AAAAAAAAAgQ/b_OF-785wQw/s1600/P1010386.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Mg2hQbkHkNs/TOHIrAHFm-I/AAAAAAAAAgQ/b_OF-785wQw/s320/P1010386.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539929657732078562″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-style: italic;”MOD Team Massage Therapist and ultrarunner Alison Hanks and intrepid pace-setter Nikkibr //span/divdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910103639238326543-6161695043505442815?l=methowolympicdevelopment.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
