Use it or Lose it

Morning to & from city creek pa 8.  It's absolutely wonderful to run in city creek canyon!

I was happy to run again after a week of non-stop hacking from whatever vile affliction my lungs suffered!

Evening run to city creek gate, then I detoured onto the trail and ran on it until it came out into picnic area 12.  Then I ran back home along the paved road.  I started running at 8:15 tonight, but need to start leaving earlier if I want to do this run because it was really dark running back out of the canyon.

Now I'm tired but I still have a bunch of stuff to do before going to bed - I'm glad I at least did my shoulder exercises before leaving on my run!  :)

No running, but I went on a nice hour long bike ride around terrace hill sports fields, down into memory grove, up to city creek gate, and back home.  Nice ride - got me huffin & puffin - seems to use different muscles than running! ;)  Did my shoulder stuff :) :)

Morning: 4 mile run to city creek pa 4 & back. Need to leave town for a couple days & wanted at least a short run before leaving. 

Late Evening: 4 mile run to city creek pa 4 & back. After 3 days of eating lotza high calorie food in Idaho and no exercise I really needed to run, even if it was a short run. 

Just after I got to the intersection of 11th Avenue and the one way road that leads down towards city creek I came across a car coming the WRONG WAY up the road in the bycycle/pedestrian/runner lane.  Now this always pisses me off because it is quite dangerous for the bike riders, walkers & runners, especially with night coming on, and I always make people turn around and go the proper direction even if it is the LONG WAY.  This particular wealthy looking gentleman in his sports car with his fancy girlfriend did not want to turn around, but since I was standing in the middle of the lane with my arms spread eagle, I seemed to hold the upper edge.  We discussed the situation for about 3 minutes (convertibles make for easy conversation), with him wanting me to get out of his way, and with me planting my sweaty greasy hands on the hood of his nice car so I had something comfy to lean on while I argued my case.  Come on he said "it's just 15 more yards to the intersection", I said "nope, you gotta turn around".  He said "you know it's a two way street", I said "nope it isn't, you gotta turn around".  He said "okay move out of the way & I'll turn around"; I said "nope, you back up to turn around" (I was NOT going to get out of his way!)  So he finally backed up to turn around and drove back down the proper direction.  By that time a lot of people had been walking up the hill and congratulated me for making him turn around because they were mad at him as well for driving in the "no-car" lane. 

So that was interesting, but other than that the run was kind of crappy because I had just driven 400+ miles, was in a bad mood because I took a wrong turn earlier that day that added over 40 miles to the trip (#$&#@!), had just wolfed down a roast beef sandwich and whole bunch of cantalope for dinner, and had a heavy stomach and heavy clunky legs to go with it.  Also I'm still coughing up a bunch of crap from my lungs, but at least I'm coughing a lot less than last week.

Oh, I had a real good time visiting friends up in Idaho and eating See's Chocolate Candy!  :)

Morning run to city creek pa 8 & back.  Finally feeling a bit better but still coughing lots.  

Busy day helping my daughter move in to college, then running lots of errands with my son.  Ran on treadmill between committments, and it wasn't too bad because I had music :) and played with the speed control on the TM :)

Late morning run to city creek picnic area 12 and back.  Whew - it was HOT running home!

Hike to Hogum Ridge

No running, so I can't put any running mileage, but I tell you, the effort was immense and the hike lasted 8 hours.  I'm guessing 10-12 miles round trip, very steep slopes at times, lots of scrambling through humongous bolder fields, and scrambling along Hogum Ridge (can't forget the fear factor of scrambling here because the ridge was quite exposed in places).  The effort was hard but doable at the time, but my quads got quite the work out and were way sore for 4 days afterwards!  This was an absolutely awesome hike, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat!!!

Morning run to City Creek PA 12 & back.  Upper hips sore for some reason - either from my hike from Heaven earlier this week, or my inconsistent training over the last couple weeks, or both.