Maybe I'll Blog, Maybe I Won't

Easy easy run.  Hammies are sore for some reason.  I guess they just got jealous of my quads and decided to join the party.  Going to cut the mileage down to 60 this week.  I love that 60 feels like a rest now.  It's great.  Best shape of my life.  Get all those little naggers healed before Logan Peak.

Fun run today.  Did the Jardine Juniper trail with Jon and Cody.  Great trail for running.  I think it is now one of my favorites.  It was really good to run with Jon and Cody again after so long.  We took it easy on the way up and chatted about the coming Logan Peak race and other odds and ends and it was real nice to catch up on everything.  The tree itself was pretty cool...much bigger than I expected with only a little tuft of green at the top of an impossibly gnarled and twisted skeleton of a trunk.  Pretty neat sight.  The views from the trail are gorgeous as well.  I think I am going to have to actually hike it (Imagine that--hiking a trail! Who does that?) sometime very soon so that I can take it slow and enjoy the scenery some more.  Anyway, on the way back Jon told me I should take the lead and go fast and so we ended up averaging just under 6 min. miles the whole way down.  It was fun to just boom down the trail and not have to worry too much about tripping over stuff in most places.  Good run.  Good company.  Boosted my confidence on as the clock continues to wind down to LP.  I am getting really excited for this race!  Thanks for the run Jon and Cody.  Lets not let it be so long until next time.  

AM- 7.5 miles easy.  Canyon Road loop.  Got a good dose of the canyon wind coming down the hill into First Dam.  

PM-  Hiked the Jardine Juniper trail with one of my friends because I wanted to have a chance to take it in slowly and she wanted to hike it.  On the way back we got hit with a pretty good thunderstorm which was fun but we decided to run the last mile back to the car, so I got another mile there. 

Today I felt like poo.  That's about the long and the short of it.  My hammies for some reason feel really sore.  Not sure why.  Oh well.  Also, I went and checked out the new specialty running store ("Runners North") by Macey's after doing my grocery shopping because I saw that they had an "open" sign out.  They were still waiting on a lot of product to come in so the shelves were pretty bare...not like I had money to spend anyway.   But the people seemed pretty friendly and helpful.

Dear Logan weather,

I would very much like to put away my winter running clothes.  If you could please help me out in this endeavor by actually behaving like it is halfway through June, I would very much appreciate it.  Thanks.

Joe 

Didn't actually need any miles from a weekly mileage standpoint today, but I went out in the rain for a little bit anyway.  The loop I took ended up being exactly a 5K, so it will be nice to have that for time trials or something. 

Final long run before Logan Peak.  Felt absolutely fantastic.  Ran to Wind Caves via the River Trail (again...I need to scout more long routes) with extensions to get the miles in.  Had a bit of excitement on the way back when I came round a corner just before SHC and found myself practically nose to nose with a moose.  Ok...so maybe it wasn't quite nose to nose, but after a few minutes of staring each other down he decided I wasn't actually a threat he came CLOSER until I could have reached out and poked him in the nose if I'd have wanted to.  I had definitely NOT decided that he wasn't a threat so I did no such thing.  After a few minutes of trying to get past him without getting myself into a spot where I couldn't run away quickly he started wandering up the trail the same way I was going.  I walked behind at a respectful distance until he left the trail so I could get past.  Cool experience, but it made me a little nervous.  He was BIG even though he couldn't have been much more than a yearling.  I was nervous because the whole time I was remembering my dad telling me about him getting charged by an angry momma moose when he was a Boy Scout and I was having visions of being mashed against a tree or something.  Anyway, interesting experience.  You don't have that happen every day.