worst

To avoid having my worst running year in 8yrs I'm gonna have to run 112 miles in December.  Pretty big number considering I've averaged 49 miles the last 3 Decembers.  We'll see if I can pull it off.

chilly

7+ more junk miles at Townlake this morning.  It was a chilly 46 degrees at the start!!  If I can get this 50k done this Saturday I'll have my first 50 mile week in a very long time!!

lift

Nice easy 7 miles at Townlake this morning.  First run in at least 4 years with shoes with any kind of heel lift in them.  It went pretty good, I took it really easy and mixed in a lots of walking.

Sunday

Had a good Sunday morning 7 miler at Forest Ridge in Bull Creek.  There were more people on that trail than any day I can remember.  It's still a fraction of the number of people I'd have seen on the Barton Creek Greenbelt superhighway.

trucking.....

I ran the Rocky Raccoon 25k this past Saturday in 2:55.  All week it looked like the conditions were going to be pretty wet but it ended up mostly okay.  I did get stuck running the last 3+ miles in a pretty good downpour though!!

Paul S. the race director told me in a private message that this was a new course this year and I suspect it was a bit long.  The aid stations were approximately 4, 7 and 12 miles.  I hit the 4 in about 44 minutes, the 7 in 1:20 and 12 in 2:12.  I wasn't exactly burning up the trail but I did zero walking until after the 7 mile aid station.  I kept thinking that he didn't give exact mileage to each of the aid stations so they could have been 4.7 or .8 and a long 7 miles but I was seriously bummed it took me so long to get to the 12 mile aid station.  I really, really felt like I was running faster than my time(s) indicated.  Still waiting on final results, maybe everyone was a bit slow.

Even though I was bummed with my results I'm gonna keep on trucking....