Trail Running Granny

Did a 3 mile hike to the falls behind dad's house with the family.

My first run since Ogden.  A beautiful run thru Capital Reef on red dirt trails.  Amazing scenery and weather. My dad dropped me off and picked me up after he went birding.  I didn't see a soul on the entire length of the trail.  Slow and easy, no pain, just perfect.

I have been talking to my sons and dad about my running, they are all in agreement that if I want to run another 10 years I need to stay on the trails, something that I think about often and have mentioned on my blog,  I am going to try  and stick with this plan, it was awesome today to be in such beautiful country and enjoy the soft trails and feel no pain.  

I am going to be in Torrey until Thursday with my son Tracey working on my folk's ranch, it has been so much fun to spend some time with my family.  Julie and Paul and Chris were here for awhile,but have left, so it is just Tracey and I for the rest of our trip. 

Enjoy your running! Stay injury free and eat some sugar cookies for me!!  Last night we went to Cafe Diablo and had the most amazing meal EVER!!!

Good-bye from the desert! 

I am back home now and trying to get back into gear after Ogden and then a week vacation.  I did a nice easy 3 miler this morning on my new trail at the base of Little Cottonwood Canyon.  Now off to play catch up on the house and all my ladies.

 Harold and I did our first bike/run of the summer together. It was so much fun we got to the Birch Hollow trailhead about 7:30 am and stayed together until Rattlesnake Gulch, he then decided to take off down the gulch and ride his bike home and get busy on some yard work. I went on to the SLC overlook and then turned around and headed back and low and behold I came upon my most favorite homie  MAURINE! I decided to turn  around and head back to the overlook so we could catch up on all the lastest and put in a few more miles. It was a great morning.  Now it is off to run errands and then Harold is going to see Terminator with grandson and  I am going to stay home and play Susie Homemaker and make cool stuff with my new wheat grinder ( Maurine, I couldn't resist buying one, I know you were going to  let me borrow one, but I got a killer deal  and I will enjoy having one I can use with out driving over to get yours, thanks anyway- anytime you want to make bread come on over, I have lots of counter space!) 

For the record, I have not run on pavement since Ogden, and all my chubby parts are working well, the slow trail runs are my friend, I have not had one Motrin or pain drug in two weeks.  I think I might change my blog title to Trail Running Granny!!!  I am trying to talk my cute hubby into getting on the blog to  track his biking miles, and then we can write love notes to each other, does that make you want to puke?  :)