Like the canyon

A very uncrowded 10 miles on a pretty much snow and ice free BST North at sunset.  Great run. Almost pain free. Finally.

AM: couple runs on the sunny groomers. You know skiing's bad when even freshly groomed runs are, well....not fun.

PM: 8 slow miles on the buttery dry trail. 4 miles of indescribably miserable trail. Frozen, cupped snow, mud, solid ice, slush and everything in between. Will be avoiding BST South of 12th for a while.

12 miles, slow-n-easy.

Some of the old injury aches flared up a bit on last night's run. 3 longish days in a row was probably a little much on top of a slightly higher mileage week last week (higher than the last month-and-a-half  for me, but not high for most) . That and the Malan's binge on Saturday.  Gotta remeber to take it slow.  Tough to do when things feel so much better than they have in months. 

50 minutes on the trainer.  Steady.

9 or so north of 12th.  Ran a few miles on the flat dirt canal road.  Running on flat and smooth terrain is so much different than trails. I think I need a little more of that just to mix it up.  Took the BST down to the nature center parking lot and back to 12th with the upper loop add on.  Trail is in great shape, no mud, very little snow. Pretty dark the last couple miles. 

Lots of the regular ultra/trail running folks out again tonight.  Really good to see so many people getting after it consistently.  There is something about watching groups of bright blue LED lights spread out behind me on a dark trail that gets me fired up to run a 100 miler. 

9 miles or so, vert? 1500.    

A distracted hour or so wandering the trails at sunset that included:

A little trail running

Some impromptu bouldering

And sunset watching.

I got out for my run about 7:00 and managed to link together 45 minutes or so of somewhat dry and snow free trail above the house. Enjoying running in the light beam lately. 

I'm pretty sure I had a dream last night that looked something like this:

I've enjoyed the winter for what it is, but would really like just a little more.....please.

14 mile slugfest up on the dry trail.  Couple laps around the canal road to BST loop.  A little flat road type running for 5 or 6 miles of this one.  I find it hard to pace myself on the road.  I see all that flat, wide open terrain and wanna punch it up and run too fast, which, in reality, is quite slow. What can I say, I'm a trail jogger.  Ran one of the back's with the go-fastie, and ran another back with a guy from Logan who drove down to run on the dirt. Great day out, perfect weather.  First no-bennie run of the season. No skiing to avoid the Dew Tour Madness.