"There are no compromises." -Once a runner

This was my first trail race after getting back to RI from spending the

summer in tennessee.  I was really not ready for it.  This race went

out and back over 4 mountains...  It was very rocky and rooty and the

climbs were only worse than the descents because they took slightly

longer.  I finished 5 minutes behind bedoukian which was pretty good

but only 5 minutes in front of sharkey which wasn't so great.  I ended

up running most of the first half with sharkey because I kept getting

lost and the pack behind me would catch up.  On top of that, I was

stupid and wore cross country flats which were horrible for the rocks

and I stubbed my toe so bad that it has been oozing puss for the past 2

days and I suspect I will lose it in 2 weeks or so.  I am sore although

not as sore as I thought I would be.  I hope that I am ok to do a

vo2max workout on wednesday or thursday.  Next saturday I will be doing

the wrentham 20k trail race which should be much easier in both

distance and terrain.

Meant to do 8 but ran with a friend who didn't want to do that much and I was a little sick and still sore from sunday.  This week I think I will only hit 55-60 because I will have 2 races and one speed workout. 

10.5 mile fartlek with 14 100m sprints.  I just wanted to make other fast paces feel slow.  I spread this evenly throughout the run so I had tons of rest.

I found a sweet dirt road that parallels a rail road track.  I couldnt follow it too much because it was dark with some tree cover and my friend who I was running with only wanted 5 miles.  It will feel good to crush him in the 5k in a few weeks.

Missed the 5 mile race because of activities fair for running club.  It ran over and I went out for a run (too sore for a workout) and a friend called me only 1/2 mile out wanting to go to a bar which I promised him I would do that night.  So I just went back then.  Lesson learned.

5 mile with the running club then 5.5 miles on my own.  

I felt horrible the whole race.  I was still sore from the race last week.  But my place and time weren't too bad.  The terrain was much easier than last weeks race but still had plenty of hills, rocks, and roots.  I also got lost several time despite the course being well marked.  There were so many flags in places that seemed obvious to me that twice I got to a tricky place and didn't know which way to go and thought I might have missed a turn earlier because most of it was so well marked.  So I ran back to the last flag, realized I was going in the right direction, had to guess at a fork and guessed right.  Another time I bushwacked a bit and ended back on the trail in the wrong direction which I realized pretty quickly.  Luckily nobody caught up to me in doing this and I passed someone while he was lost and didn't realize it until I finished and they said I got third!

It is a little bit sad, but I am pretty much gonna be road racing for the rest of the season.

 I plan to do a shake out 5 miles this evening