I am one with the levee and the levee with me

10 easy on the lovely Urb. 

Easy run out to Whatcom.

3 mile tempo on the Urb, my first rust-buster workout of the season. I wanted to test my Achilles with a gentle tempo to see how it would hold up. I ran 3 miles in 17:05 with splits of 5:48, 5:48, 5:29. I can tell I'm not in great shape, but was happy that this came without much effort.

Huckleberry loop, 1100-1200 ft climb into the Chuckanuts. I ran down the backside of Huckleberry and looped from Salal onto the Lost Lake trail and back, added a couple loops around the track to make it 12.

12 easy just outside of Naches. A bunch of friends and I rented a cabin up here for the weekend, I ran a beautiful 90 minute run up the forest service road just outside. The road quickly turned to ice and snow. There was a 100+ head herd of elk feeding in the valley (being fed, apparently the DFW feeds the elk around here in the winter). They spooked when they saw me and stampeded alongside me, then across the road just in front of me. Very cool. They did the same thing when I came back, I came within 30 yards of them as they crossed the road. Big animals.