Mid-day run on the holiday, my brother is in town and we didn't have any adventure planned so we drove up to the OPG forest in North Kitsap. There's a race there that I'm on the fence about running next weekend, so it couldn't hurt to check out the trails a bit. We parked on Stottlemeyer Road and took the southern entrance, cut through a few trails up to that western plateau and kind of got lost on a dead-end logging road. That was one of two dead-ends on the day, so we found our adventure. Other than that a really pleasant afternoon, sun waited until we finished to come out and we did find some nice trails that connected through, and ran on the forest roads a bunch. We were out there 70 minutes, at probably an 8:30 or 9 minute mile pace. Timm's about that speed, and without many climbs we kept it consistent. Good easy miles for me, I needed something like that to loosen up and relax the legs. Saturday's run was more of a pounding than I thought, and I'd like to run a little tempo tomorrow.
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