After finally boosting my mileage last week back to nearly 40 miles, I only ran about 10 miles this week. I know it doesn't make any sense to anyone but me, but I decided to use my Achilles tendonitis (not too serious) as an excuse to not run this week as a sort of protest against frigid temperatures and frozen sidewalks and roads. The weather finally warmed up a little yesterday and today, so maybe my protest worked.
Of course, then today I allowed Larry to talk me into running up the water tank road and a few miles beyond. Actually, the dirt road was plowed and most of it wasn't too bad. The air was very clear and the views were awesome. We even saw a herd of about 50 or so elk hanging out on a hilltop down below us. Wayne is just getting back to running after his pneumonia so we took it pretty easy. Even so I slipped a few times on the way back down the water tank hills, including a sort of half fall backwards where I caught myself on one arm and did a sort of three-point slide for about 10 feet. All in all it was quite an enjoyable run.
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