Oh man! I am really sore. I went for a trail run at Cronan Ranch yesterday, planning to do 8 miles EASY. Well, I guess I was rather exuberant because this morning my legs feel like I spent yesterday at the first day of high school football practice without doing anything all summer. Deep Muscle Soreness! It started out simple enough, but then it developed in to jumping over a muddy patch and then another and then I’ll turn here and see what’s down there… and then pretty quickly I was farther than I should be. I ended up doing nine miles in shoes that weighed about 2 pounds each, maybe literally, because they were so caked with mud. It was completely dark when I finished, and I was freezin’!
So, no rest for the weary or the wusses on this training schedule. I had to go six miles right away again today. It’s gonna be a miracle if I am able to avoid injury. Anyway, I would not have even thought about running today if I wasn’t looking at doing the 50K. So I took a couple Motrin and wore my HR monitor. Although it was pretty painful in the beginning, I actually did not have a bad run. My HR was better than I expected. I didn’t do trails but I still got a couple hundred feet of climbing and descending between miles 1.5 and 4.5.
I noticed that the back to back runs seemed to open my lungs like they have not been open in years. We’ll see how this goes.
Oh yeah, one other thing. I saw a little brown coyote today. It was the first time I have seen one in the middle of the day. Usually I see them in the morning really early. This guy had his winter coat. He was all fluffed out and looked real healthy. He didn’t want anything to do with me. He looked at me and jammed into the blackberries.
