I'm so tired today! Went to a fashion week party with Oiselle last night in NYC and hopped on a 5:30 AM bus straight back to work in Philly. There is not enough coffee in Pennsylvania for today.

I'm taking a rest day.

20 miles in the woods tomorrow! Gotta get some good sleep tonight

QOTD: Sure, I'm a sucker for pointless reality shows.

Afternoon all,

Missed yesterday's run...After a rough day at work a few beers seemed more important than a few miles so the beers won the day.

Working late this evening.  Looks like some night time miles around the neighborhood are in the cards.

QOTD: I don't think that trail running could stand on it's own as a reality show...it needs a twist.  If you could work aliens or ghosts or sharks into it somehow then I might tune in.  Trail running in search of bigfoot?  If there was legit coverage of an ultra I would watch it.

Doing 5 calm miles later today.

QOTD: NO! :-) I find TV very boring and stressful at the same time. The noise of it just penetrates my consciousness in a disruptive way. On top of that I despise the behavior that reality shows drives in attendants.

Another 5.5 mile run on the trails yesterday. Planning on something again today.

QOTD: No, no and no. I've never enjoyed reality shows, mainly because they are so staged and fake. Last summer the company I work for was featured in an episode of Coast Guard Alaska. I was really glad when I found out it was shot over my vacation and I was no where around. I'm not really a huge fan of being in the spotlight. Coincidentally, I was on front and center of yesterdays newspaper.

Ran 5.5 on local trails after riding with my youngest to school. Actually came across a horse on the horse only trail near the house, so went a different way. Nerve in my left foot still acting up, and taping it makes it worse. Still, it was a great run. Set a PR on the trail that goes by our friend's house, surprisingly.

QOTD: I have never watched reality tv. I have watched Unbreakable lots of times

Crawled out of bed early this morning so I could get a jump on the hot humid weather. I was planning on running a marathon course that is marked for a race this weekend. I normally run the half portion but I'm not very familiar with the trails on the full version so I was going to take this opportunity to check them out when they're flagged. The first 9 miles went pretty good as I have been on most of those trails. At that point I was eating an average of 5 spiders per mile . Then I got onto a new trail that I've never been on. Mostly used by horses. Went about 3/4 of a mile without seeing flags so I backtracked to the last intersection. No other trails were flagged so I went back the way I had been going. Probably went almost three miles without seeing a flag. Considering the way the rest of the course was marked I'm wondering if someone took them down. During this time I managed to roll my bad ankle not once, but twice. After the 2nd time I couldn't run.

The flags started to appear just before a turn onto a new trail. This was the one that I wanted to find. If I ever run it again it will be during the race. Just a nasty boulder field up over the mountain, although going down the other side the trail turned out to be pretty nice. I probably had to walk about 5 miles until my ankle recovered enough to lightly jog the nice sections. Then I rolled the damn thing twice again. After that I just walked until I got to a grassy road. And the spider count was up to about 8-10 a mile,   and those were just the ones that I was getting in the face. And yes I think I ate a few.  I didn't go quite as far as I wanted to because of the ankle but did get in 23.5 miles and have a few new trails that I will run in the future.

QOTD: If it was put together kind of like the Deadliest Catch or Ice Road Truckers, I'd probably try to find the time to watch if. But if it was like most reality shows, probably not.