The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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I ran the Logan trail to Bridger trail to Crimson trail today up through the snow level at 7,000 feet.  Very sore knee from the last five days of running but really had a good time.  I rate  Crimson personally as one of my top ten trails in the US and it's virtually in my backyard.  So much freakin fun.  Not epic but fun.  It was good to get some of it with the Gopro since I've ran it a lot but never got pics.  This morning I also got my sponsorship pack from Gopro which is pretty neat and has a few headband mounts for runners not even on the market yet.

Strange enough considering 8 months of mediocre races, I received an elite invite to Bloomsday this weekend to race as a Master.  I'm sure it's only since a real master dropped out but still fun to get.  It looks like a fun race but seeing my total lack of conditioning it would be embarrassing.  Plus the kids want to go somewhere with the motorhome and I'm not driving that thing to Spokane.

 Follow up on the knee today and it hasn't gotten worse so I'm going to live with it the way it is for this year and take lots of vitamin I. 

I used the word fun four times in this report.  I'm considering using it to replace epic. 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Jake K on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 16:50:08 from 67.177.11.154

save the "epics" for comments on Rob's blog

From Steve on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 18:20:48 from 66.87.24.233

Yep! You have any good hikes planned?

From Jake K on Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:24:27 from 67.177.11.154

My better half is still on the disabled list, so nothing in the short term... we've been itching to do a 4-5 day backpacking trip again... if she can get healed up, we've been thinking about doing something like that in the Wind River range this summer.

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