Shoot for the Stars

Grayland State Park, WA. 9:00 a.m. Camping at a new beach with Nicks family. I decided to run today on the beach. The beach was only about 5 min. away from our campsite. I walked in my flip flops from the campsite to the beach. I left my sandles in the sand at the beach and ran from the bluff entrance to the ocean. Then I ran along the water for about 1.5 miles. Going back I wanted to set a challenge so I ran in some deep soft sand for 1/2 mile. Boy, was that challenging! I had to force myself to keep on running even though it was so tiring! What a work out! The distance I did in the deep sand was so hard! Then I ran the last 1/2 mile between the deep sand and right in the water, wet/dry sand like-more firm. Also some of the time was running up toward the bluff trying to find the exact area I entered the beach. They all looked the same! I could tell it was a bit harder on the feet running on the beach but proud of my accomplishment. However, that day and 1-2 days after the run my calves hurt so bad! I could barely walk!!!

Mishel's home. 6:30 a.m. I didn't have to work today! Whoohoo! I had today off because I thought we were going to be camping the whole time. It was just Mishel and I running this morning because everyone else seems to be injured or on vacation. We kept a good pace together and are about the same speed. I acutally felt a little tired out running with her because I feel like I may be catching a small cold from Nick. We'll see though, it doesn't feel too bad and may blow by. It was a good morning for a run but it was already starting to get warm. We ran the route from her home, to BV on trail, L on Lemontree, out to the country roads and turned L on a little road that enters a dirt trail that I've ran once. Good route!. She liked that we didn't have to stop to walk because a lot of times that will happen when someone has knee or ankle pain. Slight soreness on calves from last run on the beach.

Starbucks Encumclaw. Mishel rode with me in my new honda civic to starbucks in enumclaw. We were just going to do a hike up Mt. Peak but decided to run from the starbucks to the peak. We ran about 2 miles total from starbucks to Mt. Peak. There we met up with June, Angela, and Denise. June and Angela passed us driving as we were on the last stretch. It was a tough run for both of us for some reason even though so short. It was beautiful to see the cows and fog lifting. We both agreed it was so goregous and a great way to start the day! Us 5 climbed up the goat path to the top, saw the goregous view, got a picture then hiked down and then back up on a very steep goat trail. That was challenging! June is the leader when it comes to work outs. Also near the end when we were just going down hill, June and I ran down to the bottom of the hill as fast as we could.