Cursed Realm of the Faceless Ghost

I thought about using the holiday to get out for a short trail run in the morning. But instead I decided to use the time I would have used to drive to the trail to sleep for another 30 minutes or so and then run another River Trail route. Other than a minor number-two emergency, it was pretty uneventful. 

The weather has been great for running lately. Fall has always been my favorite time of the year for running and riding. (I know it's still summer, but it's starting to feel like fall, so whatever.) 

I seem to have a hard time getting up exactly on time these days. I'm tired, but not any more tired than usual. I think the problem is that I've been sing my phone as an alarm since we moved, and I don't know how to use the snooze feature. Instead, I set up a second alarm 15 minutes after the first. But my routine used to involve hitting snooze 3 or 4 times before I got up, so I don't know if the two-step alarm is enough.

Provo Temple loop. Still a nice route, but nicer at 5:00 AM.  

I was able to get up when I planned to this morning. Unfortunately, Elliott had a rough night last night and I was far more tired than expected. So I ran 4 instead of my planned 5.

I'm still not quite caught up on sleep from last night, but I've been doing so well with my morning runs that I didn't want to break the cycle today. I ran one of my usual River Trail loops this morning. The creepy homeless-fisher guys were back today, or at least on of them was. Also, some fat kid laughed at me from his car in the Beto's parking lot. But I'd rather wear short shorts than be a fat kid, so whatever.

Catherine was running with a group this morning so I decided to skip my early run and go with Elliott after she woke up. We just ran an out and back to the park on Liberty Avenue. It was a nice time to be outside. 

I realized that it's been a long time since I ran on trails (not counting Pinecrest). I ran My Y Mountain loop with Jun and the Gang sometime back in July, and I ran Timp with my friend Aaron sometime just before or after that. But other than that, I really can't think of any local trail runs that I've done lately. 

So, I decided I should do something about that. My main goal has been to just run consistently. Now I need to get back my climbing legs. I think that if I can run on the trails every Saturday, I should make some progress. At least I should get stronger than I am now.

So this morning I ran my Y Mountain loop. I really love that route. I think it took me about 1:45 to run the loop from the Y parking lot. That's kind of depressing, considering that I used to run the 12-mile loop from our old house in 2 hours even. But it was nice to be running in the mountains again, and the weather couldn't have been better.

I'll probably try to run Squaw Peak next weekend. If anyone is interested in joining me, just shoot me a message.