Well that was LAME! I got nailed with a cold or something on wednesday that kind of wiped me out through yesterday. Maybe it was a good thing because my legs and feet are feeling pretty good today with 3 full days of rest, and now my sickness is gone which is a relief, so today is looking promising... I think I'm going to explore a new trail run for 2 or 3 hours when Nan gets back from her workout...I'm excited. Later - That was fun. It kind of beat the snot out of my feet and legs though. I ended up doing the same trail I did a couple weeks ago in the snow with a slight variation adding another loop with and additional 500 feet of climbing. This time it was a mixture of rocky trail, rough hardened ice/snow sections, a 1/2 mile of downhill in ice/snow I had to walk, and a lot of mud. Good times. It was very slow going for a lot of the time though because of the rough trail. There were a lot of gorgeous and fun sections of the trail, then there were a bunch of really slow difficult sections where the ice or mud made it hard to go. As I got higher and higher, it got better and better. Until I got to the top and went down the north facing slope. That was the worst section, trying to go straight down a steep hill for 500 yards of pure ice and snow coming down from the high point of the run. In FiveFinger Sprints it's a lot easier to go uphill in snow than it is to go down...probably would be in any shoe though. I had to walk/slide that whole section. Totals: 11.61 Miles - 2:15:00 - 11:38/mile avg - HR: 140 bpm - Ascent/Descent: 2,251 ft
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