Like the canyon

Very nice hour and a half or so on the trails.  North BST is mostly melted out, and the weather was perfect and the light show out west was one of the best in recent memory, stunning!. January? Hmmm felt like March! Very easy effort, heel/calf showing moderate improvement. Happy running for another day or two, I'm sure winter will be back soon enough.

Another 1:30 or so on the trails.  Easy pace. 

1:15 on the 'mill.  Easy pace.  After 3 days on the trail it took me about 40 minutes to get the "mill zombie" mode where I can space out and let time go by.  PT on the Achilles/calf helping, a ways to go yet though, may take some time off completely if no marked improvement in the next week.  That said, there is improvemen, just slow, and I am very thankful to be running at all. 

Perfect, albiet chilly, 1:50 on the trails.  That's 4 of the last 5 runs on trail with about 1500-1800 vert on each run and things are continuing to improve on the injury front.  I had some aprehension about running rough, hilly terrain, but a recent thaw and dry trail was too tempting.  Attentinve monitering and easy running has led to slow improvement rather than making the heel/achilles worse as feared. 

On another note, my schedual leaves me finishing the last half hour or so of my runs in the dark. I was getting tired of my whimpy lights, so I bought a six LED bike light today to use as a hand held. Bam! like turning on the lights in your car! We'll see if it lasts 10hrs as billed. 

13 of 15 days running, no run less than an hour, happy about the solid base building despite nursing an injury.

Pretty solid day of running for me.  Started with Malan's, ran the up, which wasn't bad, but the trail looked a heard of elephants had passed through when the snow was soft  Deep post holes everywhere, and frozen solid, made for tough going coming down.  At the BST, turned north and ran from 27th, past 12th street to about the end of the trail and back to 27th.  Got a bit rough the last few miles, one gel and one water bottle equals a bit bonky after three plus hours, bluh!  Probably over did it a bit on my calf/achilles, we'll see how it feels tomorrow. 

3.5 hours, pretty easy pace, guessing 4300 vert or so.

12 hours running this week over 6 days, easy pace for most of it, though I threw in a mile at 6:30 and a 1/4 mile at 5:50 yesterday on the 'mill just to remember what it felt like. 9500 vert for the week.