Easy 12 miles this morning with Sasha. Everything felt ok but I felt really awkward running this morning for some reason. It could have something to do with little sleep lsat night but I just felt really uncoordinated or something. Never really had this feeling before so it was kind of strange. Averaged 7:13 pace for 12 miles and did 10x100 meter strides. Still in recovery mode. I will try and keep the miles up this week but not psuh it unless I am feeling good.
Sasha was doing speed work and i went on ahead on the trail and right in the middle of the trail ran into a skunk. I stopped to avoid getting sprayed by him as he was not to happy to see me and did not really care to move out of the way either. All of a sudden here comes Sasha doing one of his 400s and I tell him to watch out for the skunk on the path. He just flys by me and right up on the skunk. After he went by I continued down the path and could really smell the skunk. I then ran into Sasha at the end of the path and as I went by him I could smell the skunk odor again. At this point I was wondering if he got sprayed. I continued on my run and he continued his workout and when I passed him again later I smelt the skunk again. Now I was pretty sure he was sprayed. When we finally linked up after he finished his workout I could still smell a bit of the skunk odor and told him that I think he may have been sprayed by the skunk. Not for sure but I think he may have been hit. We will have to find out if his family smelt the skunk when he went home. I'm sure he will write about it in his blog. | 