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Training Log for the Week of October 13th, 2025

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My training log for the week of October 13th, 2025 doesn’t start the week with a run, but rather a new program from Tony Horton – The Power of 4. I got some blood test results back, and I am low on sodium and my potassium. I don’t know what that means, but maybe doing a rest day workout and walk uses common sense.

Monday October 13th, 2025

Power of 4 Day 1, and it’s like deja vu. I started P90X on March 25th, 2007 (and did Kenpo X which I really didn’t like). Based on this workout and how back to Tony being Tony it is, I love Power of 4!

Training Lor for the Week of October 13th, 2025

Tuesday October 14th, 2025

I ran this morning and saw something that I’ve never seen in Albuquerque. We had a lot of remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Raymond and all of the grasses and natural vegetation had water droplets clinging to it that glinted in the sun. The photo doesn’t do it justice. When I got home, I did half of Power of 4 Day 2 for an hour of working out. An hour a day keeps the doctor away!

Power of 4 Day 2

Wednesday October 15th, 2025

Power of 4 Day 2 Part 2, and realizing that there are actually two points during the workout that Tony calls, “Stop Option”!

Power of 4 Stop Option

My daughter and I did a loop in the Rio Grande Valley that included a hike to the Albuquerque BioPark Aquarium along the Duranes Ditch, which was built in 1706 and is considered the oldest registered ditch in North America.

Thursday October 16th, 2025

There has been so much moisture in the air during monsoon season and now the humidity is dropping and it is getting clear. That is Mt. Taylor to the west, about 55 miles away.

The Power of 4 Day 3
The Power of 4 Day 3
Friday October 17th, 2025

A band of aspens at probably 9,000′ has turned orange. I would love to be up there to see them, but the only way to do that is to see them as we pass by on the Sandia Peak Tram.

The Power of 4 Day 4

The Power of 4 Day 4

Saturday October 18th, 2025

I ran in the Rio Grande Valley State Park this morning with a view of the Rio Grande from the I-40 trail before I started. The trail is in the bosque on the right side of the river.

Sunday October 19th, 2025

One of the many small farms in the valley along the Duranes Ditch and the Rio Grande.

AUTHOR

Rich Dafter
Prior to May 1985, I was super fit and super healthy, routinely running between 50 to 70 miles a week. Between March 16th and May 5th 1985, I ran 34:32 for 10K, 57:46 for 10 miles, 53:20 for 15K, 27:38 for 5 miles and 16:26 for 5K. I was 34 years old. On May 17, 1985, at around 5:00 PM on a Friday night, I was driving home with my then five year old daughter and we hit a van broadside. The van had been stopped in the left lane of a four lane road with its left blinker on and unexpectedly made a right turn out of the left lane directly in front of us. That accident, although we both survived, in an instant, ruined my health and changed my life. On Sunday, May 19th, I ran the Midland Run 15K (which I had run and eventually would run or try to run, 13 years in a row) and ran 53:03.

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