One more day off.

     I start my ultra season training monday!!  Took two weeks off from any kind of hard training, let the body heal just so I can abuse it again in October.  We have a new runner with us these days. I love seeing the progress in new runners, and I especially like to see the reaction of a new trail runner when introduced to our sport.  What percentage of runners are "real" trail runners?  P.H. is going to be good.  I am so ready to get this training in gear,  I don't think I have ever look so forward to a running season as I have this one.  This is the beginning of the time of year when we separate the running geeks from the real runners.  Lets go!!!

Crazy Stuff

   Well Ive done it now.  Registered for back to back Ultras.  By back to back I mean consecutive weekends.  The Farmdale 33 mile on October 8th and  Forest Glen on October 15th.  Had a great muddy, rainy,  run this past Sunday morning.  It is great to run with no so normal people who can appreciate this kind of fun.

Ultra Planning Under Way

      The planning is well under way for the  1st Evergreen Lake Ultra.   14 entries so far, we hope for 40.  I forgot about all the work involved in organizing an event like this.  I am just glad that ultra runners don't demand much.  Just a trail to run on, some food and drink and a trinket that says they have finished.  

Just Thinking

     "Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and sink yourself into that.  Don't be impressed with youself.  Don't compare yourself with others.  Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with you own life."


Galatians 6:4-5

The Steamboat Classic is in the books.

    Another running moment this morning.  I wanted to run around 7:30 pace, ran 7:10s.  I guess all the hills and repeats really paid off.  But it wasn't the pace that made my morning, it was the way it felt.  I have to tell ya, I  kinda got emotional when I rounded the corner, 50 yards from the finish line, and saw the clock.  You have a hard time describing to non-runners and even some regular runners cant understand what this feeling "feels" like.  So I don't talk about it much, I guess I should and maybe it would motivate someone if I did, but I really don't like too.  Now it is time to get back to the trails.  I would like to run an ultra or two this fall, and avenge my DNF at Potawotami. 

Trail Runners Nocturnal Emitions.

     Great trail run this morning.  It is hard to explain to someone not used to running in these kind of conditions, just what the attraction is, or that you are not crazy.  I'm not crazy, and I love running on days like this and in conditions like this.  Just for a reference, the rain was coming straight down, so hard at times that it was obscuring my vision.  Days like this tend to make you appreciate the good and accept the not so good.  As long as I am running trails all is good.

All Is Good

     I am having some great runs lately.  Lots and lots of hills and quarter-mile and half-mile repeats.  I am almost feeling too good if that is possible.  A couple of my recent runs have been a little emotional.  If you are my age and run a lot and get into that rhythm you know what I am talking about.  Not the "runners high" but something beyond it I think.  Its hard to describe. But I think it can happen only to a person my age.  When we are young, we take these runs for granted,  now I relish every one of them. 

 Steamboat here I come!!