A warm humid morning in Austin, TX, but not too hot. The continuing rains over the past couple of weeks has held the temperatures down some, but kept the humidity high.
Got up at 3:45 AM and headed for the Hill of Life in Southwest Austin. The HOL is 1/2 mile long, steep hill, loaded with rocks, roots, and ledges. I got started at 5:00 AM, flashlight in hand, and was the only runner on the hill until about mile 5 when I saw Rick, the 100 miler. He was headding down the HOL and going for the Barton Springs Greenbelt trail. I didn't see Rick again until I was on my HOL 20th mile.
This was a real nice run. I expected to see some of the Rogue Training runners preparing for Pikes Peak, but none of them showed. They must have been on a trip to Bandera or somewhere like that. I saw a few other runners and walkers but mostly had the hill to myself most of the time, strange.
I used my new trail shoes on this run and they worked pretty good. Yesterday at RunTex I bought a pair of The North Face trail shoes. So far so good.
Next weekend we will be in Colorado to see my daughter's family. I plan to do a run half way up Pikes Peak for the weekend training run before we return to Texas on Tuesday July 3rd.
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