Doug's Running Thingy

Evening trail run from the Maclay track - figure 8 plus a lap around the track.  Pinched nerve or something in upper back - never really loosened up.  

Full perimeter run plus backtracking to Lisa - walked a half mile with her at end.  Start and finish at the gardens trailhead.

North loop time trial again this evening, and again I go 4:41.  Not complaining I guess, but thats 4 weeks in a row at 4:41 or 4:42 - really thought I'd go under 4:40 tonight.  I blame it on roll my ankle about halfway through and taking 50 meters or so to work it out.  Finished up with a mile and a half easy back to the jeep.  Nice evening.

Decided to just do an easy three this evening, so I went to Trav's school and ran the XC course they plan on using for tomorrow's City Champs meet.  I thrice avoided the mud hole that coach is creating (2 hoses full blast for the past 24 hours, continuing through meet time tomorrow), resulting in garmin reporting 3.07 miles - pretty good.  The guys are planning on wearing superman capes for the race - clearly a low key meet before post season starts next week.

Zero for me, other than fartlekking it around the XC course.  Travis played around with strategy at the low key City Champs on our challenging home course.  He led the race through 2 miles and then backed off.  Only one kid went by him, so he got second in 17:23.  Coach successfully flooded the holding pond that the kids go through 3 times - he was disappointed that only 3 or 4 kids lost shoes in the mud this year.  The boys failed in their attempt to find little capes to wear, so they all decided to wear shades.  The guy behind him in the pic was the winner - good bud of his that is a senior with a 16 flat PR