Getting back in shape!

Hey, sorry for the hiatus, but my running will contiue to go up along with the weather. I'm currently in Kanab, in southern utah for an service trip. I'll be here until thursday so I plan to take advantage of the climate here and go on some new runs. I ran to plouff? canyon in what I will say 70 degree weather. I ran most of it with my shirt off. The trail was St. George red the entire way. There were a lot of scars on the trails though the water was far gone. For example there was a large ditch going right across the trail that I had to do a pretty long jump to get past, (triple jumping in track came in handy for once.) I was pretty focused on the run there but I couldn't resist looking at the scenery. The trail was litered with rabbits along the way. Total count was 3 cottontail rabbits and 1 jack rabbit. I kept an ear out for coyotes though I'm not sure if there actually are any here. The trail narrowed with the canyon as I ran closer to the end. About 1/4 mile of the way there I came across a creek that wasn't dry and actually had running water. The creek was on it's last bed though as it's waters weakly struggled over the pebbles, it,s width easliy stepd over. I had to cross it at a point and turned a corner and to my surprise I ran right in front of a water fall. It was really peaceful and quite as the starlit sky in a desereted place. All I could hear was the water running down the 20 ft cliff into a little developed pool, the birth of the creek. I turned around since this was the end of the western trail and headed back to the homestead. Along the way I found a cliff with a small tree frimly planted on overlooking what seemed everything. I stopped here to clear my thoughts and meditated for forgotten while. On the way up I scraped my knee on the red rock face that led to a little persistent bleeding. This was before meditating so I completely forgot about it until I got home and took a shower. This will rank as one of the top runs I've done in a while and the current top run of the year. I hope to get more running in as the week progresses.

Today, I only got in three miles doing the same runs as yesterday. Doing more accurate measurements, I figured out the run I did was longer than 4, probably closer to 5 miles. I went out with two friends and we kept the pace manageble the whole run. Only saw one rabbit on the way up to the canyon entrace, that's alright though because tomorrow we will be visiting the bunny house at the Best Friends Animal sanctuary. Throughout the run I felt like a had an upset stomach coming. I didn't have the healthiest lunch but I did have tea so I'll have to look closer into my diet tomorrow. Resuming my running more has been great. I still feel like I have maintained my running form though that could just be due to the high biking milage recently (that is why I haven't been blogging a lot recently, fastrunningblog, not fastbikingblog, though that could be a good idea.) The run was mellow and it was great having company, I have future runs planned while I'm in Kanab for some awesome hikes I've heard around here from the wonderful people of this town.