overtaking haynes

5 mile trail run with little brother. i was impressed with how he handled the rough terrain and steep hills, both uphill and down. i better watch out since he's only 13! 

didn't wake up this morning as planned. but i should have known i wouldn't :) almost walked out of class at 5:40 because it was so painfully boring but stuck it out. only one more month. i knew i'd be all anxious to run after being pent up all day and knew it would make me run with more fire. i had run this 5 mile tempo loop in the same direction only 2 days ago in the morning and had an extremely humbling and disappointing 35:03. Tonight i ran a 32:28 which may be my fastest time ever on the loop but i could have been faster last year i don't know the numbers. all i know is that i was feeling very little confidence in my running since i've basically run only 1/3 to 1/2 the mileage i've been running for the past month. i just might run a local 1/2 marathon on sunday which goes within 1 mile of my house. the one thing i don't like is that i ran it in 2005 and i hope i can at least equal that time. we'll see. it will hopefully not be too horrible a time and i won't die after 10 miles. i'm extremely worried that haynes will beat me at northern nipmuck in 2 weeks even though i beat him by 9 minutes last year. i've even considered not trail racing until my mileage is back up. at least i feel 90% recovered now from the 40 miler. One more week and i should be back hopefully. any course less nice than nipmuck and i'd probably wuss out but i know i'll be mad at myself for being afraid. even if i do manage to pull out a miracle win, i know it will be too close to be enjoyable!

6:25 to top of limekiln, 11:05 to john read rd (1.65 miles), 14:30 to gallows hill, 19:05 to old stagecoach rd (3 mile mark), 26:00 to the dead end road i can't remember the name of (4 mile mark), 29:00 minutes to top of whortleberry dirt section.

run after class with headlamp. 5 mile loop + out and back 2.2 mile on dirt road. a racoon was very intrigued by the headlamp and didn't run off like i wanted him to. 

am 5.5, pm 1.6 miles on dirt road. raced my two younger brothers. Because i beat them both by about 1:30 last week I gave the 13 year old 1 minute and the 24yr old 1 minute 10 sec. i wanted to make sure i won easily and i did :) 

 I ran 10:22 or maybe 10:27, i was trying to keep track of their times. Next time i'm going to give them 1:25. we were all faster this week. I think this is going to be a season long racing series. next week will be interesting. it should come down to the last tenth of a mile.
 

had to stay at work later than i wanted to. ended up finishing the run in the dark. saw about 10 deer, 1 rabbit, and 3 bats! the first bat sighting of the year. not cool! calves felt incredibly tight, especially the right one. i need to force myself to stretch tonight. 

pm run up to end of john read rd and then did 1.6 down dirt road by myself. 

1hr 27 min trail run at aspetuck. it's strange how my calves don't feel tight when i trail run only on the road. oh well. one of the many reasons i like trail running more than road running.