I'm retired from racing. Really.

AM- 13 

Lunch- 10 more.  Hot, hot- 99 deg today, heat index even higher. 

AM- 12

Lunch- 10, most with the guys.  The past 7 weekdays (M-F last week, M-T this week), I have run 140 miles exactly.  Nuts. 

AM- 5 + 5

Lunch- 6 by myself.  Now it's time for my 2 day taper.  

61 miles Mon-Wed this week.  That's a new all-time high for me, shattering my old record... of 60.5... set last week. 

Lunch- 5.5 easy with the guys.  Except the mad sprint through the tunnel wasn't easy.  You'd have to see it to understand.  Our lunch run group has a lot of funny guys which results in all sorts of crazy discussions and happenings.  The tunnel sprint is one of them.

AM- 3.5 ez. 

It's go time.  I'm not racing much this year, so need to make the most of each race.  I am obviously training through the Laurel Valley race on Saturday rather than tapering, as my focus is UROC 100k next month, but I am pumped for this one and determined to do my best given the conditions.  I'm much more mentally psyched up for this one than I was for OD100, for some reason.  And it even appears the weather is cooperating- low of 66, high of 86 on Sat.  That's a good 10 degrees cooler than we've had in a long time (although weather.com says the humidity will be 100% at the start.  Really?  I mean, Really?!?  100%?  Doesn't it have to be raining to be 100%?).  And with no aid stations, Barry has volunteered to backpack in and set up one mid-way through for me to refill my water!

Matt Hart posted another awesome video.  If this doesn't get you excited for a trail race, then check your pulse.

Short report for now- full report later (maybe tomorrow).

Wanted to win and break 6 hrs- got one of the two.  Took the win (2nd place was 72 min back), but missed 6 hrs by 5 min.   Tough, tough course.

Full report up on my Green Shorts running page.