8+ miles Saturday with Misty, Amanda and Greg in Barton Creek. It was all power hiking. Greg and Amanda have been dating for several weeks. He seems like a great guy and is really easy to be around. I'm really happy for Amanda!!
Today Misty, Amanda and I did the Barton Creek super highway from Zilker to HOL with a short detour to visit Rick's Spot. We mostly ran today. It's so neat to watch Misty and Amanda improve and groove on their running. They have a couple of 10k's and a half marathon planned the next several months.
This was a great month of running and power hiking for me. I finished with 126 miles for the month. For several years I did my running diary/log on a word processor program and can't find my logs from '11. I do however have all my months from Jan '12 to present on my blog. This month is my highest mileage month in that time! What a great feeling this is. My feet or my running aren't anywhere near right but I have hopes I can continue at my current pace. A few of the major factors involved are my switch to Hoka running shoes. What a find they've been for me. The other factor is running with Misty and Amanda. They are both on fire with their running lately, and Amanda and I have got a good thing going usually running/ power walking 2 mornings a week while Misty has her crazy bootcamp 3 mornings a week. I ran or power walked 16 days this month which means I was busy at least half the days this month. In the past sometimes I've just updated my mileage without posting a run but I'm going to at least do a short post so I can keep a thorough track of my running days each month. That's what made the difference. Next month I'll be able to move to more running and less power hiking. A lot of my power hiking lately has been due to helping Misty and Amanda get familiar with the Powerline loop so they feel comfortable going it alone. They've got it down now so I'm free to get back more to my thing!! I'm trying my best not to compare where I'm at now to 7 or 8 years ago when a 126 mile month was fairly routine. Upward and onward.....
64 full pack miles!
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