My running buddy woke up early puking, so I went alone. (she's better now) I left around 6:30, temp around 60, with cloudy conditions; even after sunrise there was no sun. Knowing this, I headed for Legacy, mainly to enjoy the blooming russian olive trees. They didn't disappoint. There was no traffic anywhere getting to the trail, which is a pleasant thing about being up on Sunday morning. After I got to the trail, I saw a runner 2 minutes up ahead. I got the itching to catch him. Usually I can catch people, but today I couldn't. This guy was going hard enough that I could overtaken him, given enough time, but I just wasn't hungry enough. The first time I timed the gap, he was 1:45 ahead. At the next turn, about 1/2 mile later the gap was down to 1:30. A mile later, 1:15. By now, I had been running pretty hard for 4 miles, and was getting sweaty and thirsty. He showed no signs of slowing, so I gave up and had a few pulls of powerade. He probably didn't even know we were racing, but it got me moving faster than I would have otherwise. I turned back at Glover, and for fun ran down the Davis Creek trail, cavalierly giving back the climb for a few minutes by a stream and enjoyable downhill. Reclimbing 1340 S made me have second thoughts about the water course. In summary, I came in 11 miles in 88 minutes. Not great, but acceptable. It's hard to go all out on Sunday morning. I got home before anybody was leaving for 9:00 church. All my kids were still asleep. | 