Where's the Donuts?

Planned to head out for just a few miles with Krissy, she was beat up from a long trail run so I didn't figure we'd run much more than an hour. Through Fremont to Ballard, across the locks and up to Discovery Park. We were both feeling good so we decided to run a loop, and return on Nickerson to the Fremont Bridge. Then we stopped at ate at the PCC in our running clothes. Easy pace, but once we warmed up we were going pretty well. Eleven is a guess, but it was probably close. 1:26:00

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Trail run with Mike and Henry at the county land up on Newberry Hill. This is being master-planned as a larger trail system, and it'll be great once that's all complete. We did find some good single track eventually, so you can see the potential.

Parked at Klahowya and took off to the south, not knowing exactly what the trails were like. The fog broke right as we left, beautiful sunny morning in the trees. But the trail early on was absolutely soaked, like flood stage. I've never seen anything like that outside of running through a creek. That's what is was like for the first three miles. Eventually we gave up trying to keep feet warm and just bounded through (where we could, some stretches were really deep). So there's some mitigation needed there. Eventually it lighten up and we hit some forest roads for awhile, wound around not knowing where we were for an hour. A lot of the trail was overgrown, so we went pretty slowly.

After an hour we were back to the starting point, and we took off on another trailhead, heading west from closer to the school. Much nicer trails, still wet but not flood-stage (mostly) and good windy single-track to play on. Again, we weren't sure where we were, so the run turned into a good 90-minute number eventually as we wound around. But we found our way back, got some sense of direction. Fun time on a holiday morning, so who cares if it took a little longer and my feet got wet. Henry had eight on his Garmin, otherwise I couldn't have even guessed what we ran.

My left foot has an odd pain, kind of a structural thing just on the top of the foot. Comes and goes, but felt it after the race Saturday and again today.

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Out to Illahee State Park, down to the beach, then back to Bachman Park Beach and around on the little Manette trail. Then a few laps around the block to round out 60 minutes. May be just on the shy side of eight, but there are rolling hills that I was clipping along down. 

Still a little twinge on the top of my left foot, but it doesn't hurt when I strike the ground or anything. Other than that felt fresh and light. Seemed like it was light earlier this morning, and even though some low clouds blocked the sunrise, it's nice to see a clear blue sky in the early morning. Great start to the day. 60:00

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Quick five to start a sunny day, it's going to be a bear at work so I wanted to get something in and then be on my way. Wonderful morning to run, the sun is out and mountain ranges on east and west were glowing as I crossed the Warren Ave. bridge. Then through Evergreen to Manette Bridge, Shore Drive and the little Manette trail. Left foot felt fine, easy pace was nice and relaxing. 39:39

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The weekly slug slog with Henry. I figured it would be a great day because our weather is April right now. Past few days in the 50s, completely sunny. Flowers are blooming. 

But it was actually pretty cold to start, 32 out when we hit the road (underdressed, of course). We were planning 16. A few miles in we were warm, and the sun did come up and it was pleasant.

We were both dragging a bit for whatever reason, but that actually really helped slow the pace and get us through without hammering like we tend to. I needed that to back off, since this was my biggest mileage week of the year (48). We started with a couple 7:15s, ran a few right around 7 (but stayed above it), then actually mixed in a 7:30 and 8:00 out by Manchester. Came back at a real conservative, realistic pace, sticking around 7:05 and holding that through the finish. We were tired, but not beaten down tired. Had a gel at mile 8, and snacked on a small Clif between 12 and 14. Overall, 1:56:00.

Went to a 1.5 hour yoga class after breakfast, which was a great way to loosen up and work the kinks out of my legs. That'll help with recovery, and may I'll get a good run in tomorrow now.

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