Dragged my butt out the door, was all mental

RUN 7.25 miles in ?? just over an hour?

Although I wasn't hurting, the sun was shining, I had all day, and I really did want to run, it took me awhile to decide on a route and to get out the door for this. There was only 6 miles left to hit my weekly goal of 65 miles. Only 6!

I decided to drive somewhere for something new, then run my errands from there. So off to Caron Park towards the RdP Greeway. Flat, boring, but a mentally easy there-and-back-again.

To my surprise, my fully charged yesterday morning Garmin was dead this morning so I carried my iPhone and used the MMR app. When I hit the 3 miles turn-around, I decided to run a small neighborhood loop on a side street, not knowing that there wasn't a small loop option! The street just kept going and going and...   Then I opened the phone to change podcast settings (Found a new podcast about self sustaining farming, foods, etc!), apparently bumped the "pause" button in MMR, and didn't realize it until sometime later.

So bonus miles! But if I had known the real distance, I would have run another 0.75 no matter how tired I was.

This run was mentally hard, my body rolled right into it. Amazing how much mental fight there was to delay it, but no mental fight to not doing it.

NUMERICS
RUN 66.25 miles in 12:19
BIKE COMMUTE 34 miles
WALKIES 15.3

Feeling Great going into a rest week!

Three looper at Greensfelder, revisited, and FINISHED

RUN 32 miles in 7 hours

OMG I Just looked up the revisited version of this run! And the co-ink-a-dinks are TOO COOL!

I was looking forward to my first 30 miler of this training season. The past two weeks had 26-27 miler. Like the marathon training 20 miler, 30 is sort of a benchmark distance.

I was not looking forward to running alone, again!, but that's how it went. Me and my podcasts.

The plan was to stay on a familiar and well-traveled trail, since I was going to be alone. After some hemming and hawing, I stuck to my plan of doing the DeClue-Dogwood loop three times. Back in May, I attempted this but did the last 10 miles as an out-n-back. So in the back of my mind, I saw this as a chance to actually finish the three loops.

And I was excited to run on a full moon day. And believe it or not, when I did this the first time in May, it was also a FULL MOON DAY!!! Holy Cool!

But even better, this run was 2 miles longer and 7 mins shorter! In all fairness though, that run was preceded by gut symptoms.

Another perfect day: clear, dry, humid but not hot. The weather lately is WINNER. My plan was three evenly paced loops fueled with rice cakes, powerbar, gels, and a test of dextrose candy. Meal timing set to every 50 mins, with the dextrose candy as desired. At the gas station near Six Flags, I decided on a box of Bottle Caps. Pre meal was a few eggs, banana, small potato, and butter about two hours prior. No gut symptoms this time around! (And no worm threads either! And no stalker!)

(For fun, my fueling strategy in May was rice balls with raisins, salt, and maple syrup. And I'll reveal here that rice balls were way better. Way. Better.)

So bippety-bop down the hill with mountain bikers everywhere, a few horses, and fewer runners. My first loop podcasts were SYSK Nirvana, SCD Unspoken Forces of Food, and ATK Radio Soul Food. I was going and doing and feeling great this first loop, 10.5 miles in 2:15

Second loop just the same, a little more stumbly on the rocky sections. Listened to MTA's double marathon report, SYSK Hot Air Balloons, and ProYou Marcus Pierce. 21 miles in total of 4:37.

Third loop! Now this is the one that I out-n-backed on in May. I knew I had extra miles banked during the week and didn't need 30 miles and besides I was going to end with 31.5 given the 0.5 mile overage in loop distance. Still going good, I finished up the bottle caps (and threw most of them to the squirrels in the end), wrapped up Marcus Pierce in the first 5 miles, had no qualms about being able to finish, and rounded out the last miles with 10 Junk Miles.

In May's report I said I was cooked, stumbly, and seriously mental over the distance. I worried about being burnt by 30 miles when I wanted to run 100. None of that today. In fact, this felt EASY if I can can that without being jinxed! No falls, no pains, no ticks, no stomach or hydration issues.

Choose the Bigger Life

It's a rest day, but I heard this in a podcast during our long off-morning WALKIES.

Choose the Bigger Life!

Sourced my favorite running quotes!

RUN 1hr and 7 miles
BIKE COMMUTE 8.4 miles

I had to replay yesterday's 10JM podcast since I couldn't hear most of it during the run. After being awoken early by the doggie, I started the podcast. The book I mentioned yesterday? Run Gently Out There...is the source of my "Odds and Ends on Maintaining Confidence and Good Spirits on the Trail" quote list!! I found that on RW.com years ago and still have it hanging at my bench. Now I HAVE to read the book.

Great run on a chilly morning. Doggie came with me to join me on a walk afterwards. Mars was a bright star over downtown prior to sunrise. My hands were cold, but I was sweating under my shirt. We talked to DT and JA about their canceled MiTi, and turns out S?'s LSL Tri was canceled too. I did have a lucky weekend, the way we missed the rain and all.

Feeling good today, some stress but that's normal. Still some stomach issues, but this is the last day of the tet for the bone test.

And I've planned out the next few weeks to cover a rest week, a 10 days x 10 miles sequence, a rest, then pacing the MT sweeper. hehe.

You don't need an explanation

RUN 11 miles in 1:47 to work, I think a 9:44m/m
RUN 3 miles in :27 home, 9:00m/m
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Yet another screwy day with stuff going on at the house. This too shall pass, I guess.

Totally perfect morning to run, I can't believe this weather. The only downside was my tummy, unhappy from either the tetracycline or from the radishes and butternut squash for dinner? The radishes were a new intro food, didn't think they'd be a problem. The real problem was prolly the volume, half a bag doesn't seem like much to ME but I gotta wonder what a normal person would eat?

I was listening to my 10JM podcast and they mentioned the above quote in the title, they were discussing what sounds like a great book! The quote is in regards to questions about why we run so much.

Kept it easy on the inbound run, wandered and screwed around the neighborhood. I thought I'd be to lab earlier but my tummy caused delays. So I was surprised to see I only had 15 mins to leave again so I could be home on time for the inspections! Quick potatoes, water, then out.

My back is tight today, I woke up with it (I've been waking up with it, actually) and it's lingered all day. Not pained, but almost.

My energy was flagging all the rest of the day. In addition to the rock-heavy feeling in my gut I was lethargic, weak, unmotivated. TV gave me some dextrose powder, I admit to eating some to boost my energy so I could finish up at work and ride home.

Kombucha class tonight!

Another rock formation in TGP

Pull out in fronta me and I WILL SMACK YOUR CAR

RUN 6 miles in 57:30
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Well the title gives it away. If you make a turn in front of me, right in front of me, no turn signal, no acknowledgement that I'm directly in your turn path...I WILL SMACK YOUR CAR.

Even if it hurts my hand. (And it does).  Hope I woke that f^cker up in his nice little cage.

Bee-autiful morning, almost tempted to put a long sleeve on, how ironic considering that I'm nerved out about running a race in cold weather. Adapt! And do some research on that maybe.

Great run, went out on only an egg and some chicken and some tetracycline. Yeah, I decided to go with it and do the bone biopsy. If the side effects as indicated start to kick in, well, it's only a three days course. I'll survive.

Now the fatigue hits

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Ugh...all day just flat energy. Knew the fatigue would catch up with soon enough. I slept 8 hours, correction I was in bed 8 hours but kept waking up.

Doesn't help that I ate some bad foods Sunday night that left my stomach upset. Is this a good time to mention that I'm starting a modified Whole30 today to start addressing some bad habits that I'm picking up? Like, eating the wrong foods? I ate way too much butternut squash and too much cheese Sunday. Not good.

And when I woke up this morning my back was very tight. I stayed in bed until 6am and did stretches. Not so much painful, just tight. I sent an update to Dr M last week and he thought that some of the morning pain I was feeling was the bone healing and to call back in 2-3 months if it's still an issue. I know this feeling today was from all the running and carrying the camelbak, so I'm not counting this as a problematic symptom.

Got a long run? Who ya gonna call!?

RUN 10 miles in 1:31

I was so happy when LC texted a few days ago looking for a run partner today! I had 10 miles as my goal, she had 18. When you have 18 miles to run, who do you call? Your ultrarunning friend!

Another perfect day, this has been an unseasonably cool August, temps in the 80's during the day and almost chilly at night. Today was clouded, still, and wonderful.

We picked the Katy trail, that gave me a soft run rest and was close to where she lived. Another day in which the drive was totally worth it. LC is so much fun to talk to, so on this run even though I'm talking about my life upheavals I'm still not really thinking about it. And I love hearing about her upcoming wedding, Ironman in October, and all else. We think alike in a lot of ways to :)  Miss talking to her more.

To my surprise, I felt great for this run. I brought a gel but didn't need it until mile 8.5 and by then there wasn't time for it to be effective. No pains, soreness, or unexpected fatigue. Sure, I'm tired, but it would have been worse had I been running alone.

While I would have loved to run the full 18 with her, it wasn't good for me. Maybe in a few weeks.

And sadly, I learned that DT and JA couldn't finish MiTi due to weather cancellations!

NUMERICS
RUN 66.3 miles in 12 hours
BIKE COMMUTE  25.6 miles
WALKIES 13.8 miles

Berryman Trail excursion, the thunder rolls!

RUN 26.3 miles in 5:38

We don't leave town to run much at all, I don't count Greensfelder as "leaving town". And after doing this, I can see why. It was a 2hr drive there! Yikes!

BUT, so worth it. This was like a special run, this trail is very isolated, quiet, varied, and REAL.

TV didn't want to get up early to join the Terrain group (he's been nicknamed LayZ, which I guess makes me Bee-yonce...) so we ran opposite them in the hopes of meeting them. This trail loop is something I have trouble understanding. When we ran it with BG and DG in 2013, I thought we ran c-clockwise when in fact we ran clockwise! Once I ran the MT later that year, then paced TV in 2014, I began to understand which direction is which leaving the parking lot. This run I made a point of understanding: counterclockwise means the creek comes first, the springs come second. I can hang on to that.

Totally gorgeous day, and with the full tree cover it was fully shaded. The trail was dry except a few thick mud areas. Perfect! My energy levels were good, today I tested the rice crackers again as well as some Smartie candies for the dextrose. I also bought lemon drop candies but they were too gross, threw them out. Only 50 cents! The smarties were good for flavor pop and mental entertainment, but not good for the difficult wrappers and low calorie count. Only 25 calories per roll! But at 50 cents for 8 rolls, not terrible. So these weren't so much fuel as they were something to perk me up a bit.

We kept a steady 4.5 miles per hour pace, met two KC runners training for MT50, and had a pretty perfect run. I did fall over a root in the first few miles and scraped up my right leg, but otherwise no problems. Even when my orthotics got wet at the creek I did OK.

I did suffer some 'where the f^ck is the finish line' in the last miles. I thought we were much closer than we actually were and fell behind on fueling. It's good to deplete and test that feeling sometimes, but I can't keep doing it every weekend!

Quick summary of today's fuel: pre run eggs, potato, coconut oil, banana.
In run: rice crackers, powerbar, 2 gels, and the smarties. Not much! But I only needed maybe one more gel.

Awesome thing to remember about this run: from miles 12-26 it was almost a constant thunder overhead, yet little to no rain and still some sun. It rolled overhead, some loud and some calm, but almost constant. We couldn't see storm clouds, but the KC runners did see dark skies at one point. We finished up, got in the truck, and almost immediately it started raining. Then rained the entire way home!! How did the rain miss us like that, too cool!

No pains, injuries, soreness...ignoring the scrapes from the fall. Great run!

2008 goals

Look what I found cleaning up some old papers!

Fatigue leads to doubt

RUN 8 miles in 1:15
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

So this makes 30 miles for my midweek running. Funny to think I'm planning to (again) run 100 miles in under 30 hours, here I'm running 30 miles over 3 days and complaining out being tired.

Yeah, I'm tired. And that lets doubt seep into my head. I walked Sugar before the run and when she lunged to sniff a passing runner I fell over her. BAM! Onto the rough path on my right knee, left hand, and right elbow. No blood, but bruising.

Of course that leads to "OMG did I break another bone" type of thinking.

After the walk I ran, and my mind was entertaining (as it often does) the idea of doing 4x2 loops, or 8 x 1 mile loops, or some cheap cheat of the run. My head tries to tell me, it will be faster to do it that way...what? 8 miles is 8 miles, it won't be faster any other way. Head games.

It was a bit of a drudge to run, would have been better to join the Thursday group but I wanted to be to work early, but I got it done!

REST! And maybe some ice on that knee.

Baby, we need more weather like this!

RUN 13 miles in 2:07 for the inbound commute
RUN 3 miles in about 30 mins

I got up at 5, walked the dog at 630, didn't start running until 715. WTF did I do all morning?

Well I started listening to a Tolkien podcast about The Hobbit, then pulled out my copy of the book, started reading...  But DAMN I'm good at wasting time!

I left and followed my plan of to LP, to BP, to TGP, to work. I added a loop at LP and BP to reduce the planned number of loops in TGP. This worked, I didn't skip much as I added 1 mile to my plan!

While running towards BP, I overheard what I thought was a postal worker say "Baby we need more weather like this!" and I have to agree. It rained over night, and cool temps are still in the area.

In this run, I decided that there should be a word for the raindrops that cling to leaves after a rain, that fall when post-storm winds knock them down, with the sun shining creating a sparkly tree rain, and when you run under them a light patter of rain is heard around you and touches the skin in cool drops...

While running around BP, I saw a playground bee like the one at MiTi!

Then I checked to see if the downspout at my potential new home was fixed...not yet. But they still have time.

That was my first hour. Then off to TGP, where I ran (where I always run, I should say) the bird trail and saw this


Great run in, didn't anything in-run but did have a big M1 beforehand. When I got to work, I realized that the planned recovery meal of eggs and roasted tomatoes was not there like I thought. Then my back up plan of canned sardines wasn't there either. Nuts. So I had to dig into lunch, I ate about half and saved the rest for later at my lunch with TV. I stopped by the cafe and got a small salad with a lot of raisins. But I was hungry all day!
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The run home: easier than I thought it would be! I used to really struggle with the afternoon run.

Mo' Miles, Mo' Smiles

RUN 6 miles in just under 57 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

The training plan said 4. My out-the-door plan was 5. How did it turn into 6? Not complaining about it, just enjoying it :)

My usual loop to LP and back. I wandered a bit more than usual so as to avoid the 0.3 mile shortage I got last week. That run up to Nebraska and back can get old. So I looped further east, included that Benton out-n-back, then went further south, and decided 6 was a good number.

No fartleks or pick ups today. Didn't have the energy for it.

Sunday stroll

RUN 8 miles in 1:20

The original plan was to run 7.3 miles, that would round me up to an even 60 miles. But when I looped back from the house at 7.4, I couldn't resist just doing another small loop up to NE and back. Then believe it or not, I had to convince myself to NOT run another 0.3 so I could round up to 61, LOL!

Great morning run, another lovely day that's just too perfect. I was feeling surprisingly good after yesterday, no soreness or pain. Just some fatigue that is to be expected. I looped around the neighborhood to the MoBot, JM and AM drove by and yelled HI, strolled around TGP, back around the MoBot, then to NE before going home.

I didn't feel that slow, but it averaged 10 min miles. This is the first of three long run weeks building me into the 60 mile range. I'm not signed up for OT100 yet, but I'm talking like I'm gonna do it!

NUMERICS
RUN 10.5 hours and 60.7 miles
BIKE COMMUTE 25.6 miles
WALKIES 14.9 miles

Best long run yet this summer!

RUN 26.6 miles in 5:13, two loops in Lost Valley

Brekkie was banana, small potato, tablespoon of coconut butter, and 2 eggs at 6am.
In run nutrition was one powerbar, two gels, and about 20 rice crackers.

Stating that up front because I think this is what changed the run for me. I ate enough!

We didn't start running due to a traffic delay on 64, had to wind around and get myself lost on the way to the mound. So the run started around 9am. Gorgeous day, we are really getting lucky with the weather. Sunny, light wind, warm but not hot.

Saw JeffB from the SLTC in the parking lot! :) Took off in good spirits planning to do two loops, not necessarily the same loops twice, but rather some variation on them.

Oh, and my NEW Cascadia 9's went out today! Love the midnight color :)

My nutrition plan was eating every 50 mins. I race at every 40 mins, but that's because I'm not eating normal meals and I'm out there much longer. Last two weeks I've been missing a feeding or going over one hour, or going by feel. All fails.

My last gel was caffeinated, I'm sure that helped me chatterbox my way through the morning too!

So much I could say, all the crap I talk about from the Big D, to moving, to selling, to lab, spider worms, my stalker, Sugar, blah blah, TV is really patient!

I tried to get him to go for another 0.4 miles but he wasn't up for it. He's way more chill about rounding his numbers (he rounds down!) and doesn't have the triathlete mentality for parking lot loops.

Good chat with LC

RUN 7 miles in a few seconds under 60 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

This run brought my mid week mileage to 26 miles. 26.1 if you're really counting. And apparently I wasn't, because I definitely would have run an extra tenth just to say 26.2!

Did most of this run with LC, finally got to chat with her for awhile. :)  We see each other and run together in the group, but being it's a group it's not often that it's just her and me.

Talked about Disney and my upcoming bone biopsy.

My shoes have more miles than your car

RUN 6.6 miles in 60 mins, 3 miles in 30 mins, then 4 miles in 37 mins

Roughly, anyway. It totaled 14 miles in 2:07.

There was a radon inspection schedule for 8-10am, so I ran the first 6 beforehand. Waited around for 2 hours for the inspection, learned at 10 am that it was canceled (!), then ran to work for 10.1 miles in 90 mins.

Then run home. Mixed up day!

On the way in and the way out I saw this guy wearing a bright turquoise blue shirt that said "My shoes have more miles than your car" on the back. Just funny to see him both ways!

Five miler with fartleks

RUN 5 miles in 43:30 with some pick ups around LP
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

I got a late start this morning. Firstly, I didn't sleep well so to compensate I let myself sleep in a bit. I didn't mean to sleep in a near-full hour though!

Then 'business' took abt 35 mins! Dammit! At least it's better than it used to be, days like this are an exception.

By the time I started it was close to 8am. Sun was up, beautiful perfect morning. I added the mile as a loop around LP, and did quarter mile pick-ups as I looped the park. I should map this park from my potential new home!

Storms blew in! And I went OUT!

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

I don't normally post on my days off, but some things to say.

Last night a storm blew in around 8:30, I went outside and just let myself get soaked. Refreshing! And a bit chilling.

Then today I have inspections on my potentially new home! So i'm distracted with preparing for that, have library books to drop off, in a need-to-run mental funk. Thinking I had a pair of jeans at work, I left behind the ones I walked the dog in, only to get to work and realize I don't have my jeans here! OOPS!

Rest day

The training plan called for a 10+8 this weekend, but I bundled it into an 18 yesterday. This way I get to run long with TV, run trails instead of around town, and I get a whole day off! Two whole days when you add in tomorrow's usual day off.

No pains or problems from the run. All good, just normal fatigue.

Still undecided on my fall race schedule, assuming I do any fall races. I'm still 'training' for OT100 in November even though I'm not signed up. The Farmdale 50M I'd planned on is the weekend after I think I'm going to move, that might be a bit hard to do. And the last-man-standing coming up in two weeks might also be hard, depends on whether I can board the dog or not.

NUMERICS
RUN 37 miles
BIKE COMMUTE 44.8 miles
WALKIES 13-some miles

18 at Greensfelder, improved nutrition, and ticks!

RUN 18.2 miles in about 4:30 with TV

Why is it after years of doing this and after a got-it-perfect race just 2 months ago am I still hammering out a nutrition plan? Well the whole SCD thing isn't helping any, but really this shouldn't be so hard.

Last week I ran out of mental fuel around mile 18 of 21. This week I ran out closer to 12 miles. I had 2 gels and a small potato in the 5 hours, didn't really hold to a schedule, and knew problems were brewing before they got bad.

For today I tested for the first time since SCD a powerbar. Also I had a large russet potato for dinner last night. So no doubt I was fueled for the run, more fueled than last week too. I held myself to a tighter eating schedule today. But still a powerbar and 1 gel in 4.5 hours?! Blah blah blah about being fat-adapted. My body might be, but my brain is NOT.

Another gorgeous day though, can't ask for better summer weather. Still winds, cloudy, really warm but not hot temps. We started out at the far southern end of GRock, where we started a run once with EK and her AR friends. That was the only time I've run this section, forgot how rocky and hilly! Then we did the Fox Creek out-n-back, terribly overgrown and rocky. Then to the VC (10 miles) for some exploring, found what is marked as a dead-end trail that led to the western edge road. Explored a campground site that TV named Sugar Ridge (13 miles). Then came back.

I started nibbling the powerbar before the run since brekkie was hours before. Then around 1:20 (about mile 6) I had some more, then had the rest around mile 12. I was falling apart mentally and recognized the symptoms from last week. So I immediately dug out my back up gel (seriously, a back up fuel for a 5 hour run!?!?!?) that had 50 mg caffeine and ate half. At mile 15 ate the other half.

And wouldn't ya know it, the last 4-5 miles were great! I'll attribute some of it to a "back to the barn" syndrome I sometimes have, but I was definitely more awake on the way home. Aside from a knee-banging fall and and a left ankle roll in the last 2 miles, this was a great run.

Then back at the truck I find seed ticks again! I had some last week at my ankles under my socks, same thing here. Dammit!

Cool temps group run

RUN 7 miles in about 60 mins
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Lots of rain overnight, my hydrangeas will be happy too.
I started out with a quick trip into work for a time point and thought for sure I'd be too tired to hold a decent pace. To my surprise, I felt just fine. Sugar and I took a brief walk afterwards :)

8 miles with some light rain to start

RUN 8 miles in 1:13, 9:07m/m
BIKE COMMUTE 12.8 miles, a double

Simple out n back to TGP and back, I'm super happy with the pace! I'm liking this rest week :)

A second contract on the house this afternoon. Up. Down. Up. Down. Ugh.

Four miler with fartleks

RUN 4 miles in 36-37 mins, short fartleks
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Ran to LP and back, my usual 4 miler to that park. Felt great, added some block-long builds on the way back.

Last night on my commute I had a flat tire! I could hear 'something' funny from the front wheel just a few blocks from the garage. Nearly biffed it on the last corner into the alley! Best time to get a flat? As you're pulling up to the garage!

My life is like a tragic weekly TV series

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Rest week, and rest day.

SUPER happy to report that my stomach survived yesterday, so gels passed the test. So did potatoes!! Next up, powerbars.

Also happy to report that I'm not sure or injured. Just a bit fatigued. Good news -- and funny considering that I don't know what I'm training for. Guess I'm training for OT100. I realized a day or two ago that my niece's surgery is right before Tunnel Hill, takes that off the list for me.

However not happy to report that the current house contract is in jeopardy, and all I can do is wait to hear what happens next. Realtor says there's another buyer. All I see is more stress. But I'll wait until I learn more before I get stressed. There's still hope.

That's a snake! And that's not the visitors center!

RUN 5 hours and 21.1 miles in Greensfelder

TV and I set out with a 20-miler goal in Greensfelder. What a gorgeous day, sunny, light winds, hot but not too hot. Perfect :)

We started out from the stables and followed the new-to-me trail connection that we normally missed, something I figured out in one of my Kettle-prep solo long runs. From there, TV wanted to do Mustang for the hills. Mustang was a bit rough, passed thru some thorny patches and bloodied my knee on a fallen tree.

Then I suggested the Wall, how could you not run the wall, and then we headed off to Overlook. More hills! But on the way to Overlook, we saw a Timer Rattlesnake!! My first!! I saw it, he heard it, and I think we were lucky in that the snake was sunbathing on open flat trail, not in the rough and partially covered trail we were usually running it.

We watched it slither off to the side, and I ate my first root beer gu gel. Eh, it was Ok.

Up Overlook, down Beluah (or however you spell it), then back to the VC as he was out and I was low on water. I snacked a steamed potato, here I was almost 11 miles in and 2.5 hours, with only a potato and gel. I'm setting up the story for later...

I suggested the last 10 miles as the Terrain run I did in April backwards -- Dogwood to Declue. We set out, and pretty immediately my mood tanked and I started stumbling over every stupid rock. Took half a gel (40mg caff, so I just did half), felt better, but still low on the energy meter. But I was doing good, this was my longest run since Kettle, and it was on Greensfelder trails so that adds a level of difficulty.

Passed along SF (hate the noise from the rides, but love the trail, trail wins), and hit a branch that I thought would take us back to the VC. TV insisted the right branch, I thought it was left branch. He said they all meet up and go back to the VC, so I followed along. I was getting low on water, not out but not far from it. We were at 19 miles with my mood really falling off.

When we hit the road and not the VC, I was somewhat disappointed. I wanted to keep running but I was mentally done. I needed fuel! I had a Powerbar, but I was more set on testing the 2 gels and potato (last time I did a long run on those fuels the next day I had a very unhappy tummy, so I needed to test) than I was on being in a good mood. Besides, TV insisted we were only "only a mile away" and "almost there". I trusted him, followed along, but warned him that my sense of humor was falling. We kept going, and I thought were had passed the VC and were on the way to the truck. But to my surprise, we ended up at the VC! What?!

When I saw the VC, I was done. Didn't run another step. Walked to the truck, made a nice cool-down I guess.

So my nutrition needs some tweaking, and that will be easier to do once I get some things tested. See how tomorrow goes!

NUMERICS
RUN 52 miles
BIKE COMMUTE about 40 miles

Five into six miler to Wyoming house under a BLUE MOON!

RUN 56 mins and 6 miles

The original plan was to long run today with TV, then do a shorter run tomorrow and visit what might be my new home. Plans changed, so I just reversed the two runs. Today after walking the doggie under a beautiful blue moon in the southwest sky I took a run to BP to tour the new digs.

After a loop in CHP, then through the CH, I headed south to Wy street. I tracked the distances to measure BP (just under a mile) and check out the 'hood. It's nice!

Goodbye July, and Hello August!