I feel like this semester is about to "take me down" between hurricanes, Covid, students, but mostly instructors. Anyway, I ran 3.25 this morning. The .25 was checking on an early scrape a buck made behind my house. We have a strange rut here in this area with a bunch of overlaps. It is confusing. The main rut here is mid to late December.

QOTD: I know this question has been asked before, but what other outdoor activities do you participate in other than trail running? AND How long have you been trail running?

I hunt deer and turkeys, sometimes other game, but the only things I get excited about are deer and turkeys. A few times a year I will try to catch a few fish on the river, but I never keep them. I have been running on trails since I was a kid, but it was mostly in conjunction with running a trap line or checking potholes and creeks for wood ducks. I had a little circuit I would "run" after school and sometimes in the dark before school to run a trap line. As a "trail runner" I think I have been doing that for about 12 years.

Nothing yet, but I plan to run after work.  I laid awake until almost 1:00 a.m. then slept fitfully after that, so getting up at 4:30 was not happening.  It sucks because Sunday night I slept great! Probably because I was in my own bed for the first time in over a week. Oh well.  I guess back to the schedule of crappy sleep that I've been enduring.

 

QOTD: I started running a little over 15 yrs ago. I've never been athletic, so me running was a huge surprise to just about everyone who knew me. I met a woman - who is now my best friend - at Bunko and she kept talking about trail running so I decided to try running in general.  I'd been doing "The Firm" aerobics in my living room for a few years and was getting bored.  Once I was able to "run" 3 miles, I decided to go on a trail run with her in the Arcata Community Forest.  Little did I know (1) there's a BIG difference between running on the road and running on trails and (2) there's nothing flat about the Forest.  Nothing. At one point near the end of our 5-mile run, we came around a corner and my brain just about exploded.  All I could think was, "It's another *&%$-ing hill!"  I was seriously wondering how much it would cost to have someone come out and rescue me on an ATV.  Something about it clicked, though, and I've been running trails ever since. 

It is interesting about the "flat" part. Before I ran my first, and only, road race, I had already gone to the trails. I remember someone during that road race complaining about a hill that was literally about a foot of elevation change in 100 yards. It was a fun run, but I never ran another road race and rarely ran on pavement after that day.

Had a good 5 last night out at the lake. Creakiness was at a low level and cruised along somewhat well for me these days. About 5 minutes faster than a sort of average run last week on the same route. Weights today plus Baker and I will try to attack the hills at CW tonight and hope they do not bite back too hard.

QOTD: Golf. I've been a golfer since I was 11 or 12. Started hacking it around in the fields behind the house where I grew up with niblicks and hickory shafted woods I found in the basement. Trail runner since 2003. While I did not run the trails we always took our dogs to the woods, rustic places where we could have them off leash. My first trail race was the Evansburg Challenge 10 miler which was loads of fun with mud and deep creek crossings.

Did 6 mi after work today.  It was hot, about 89 deg, the parts in the full sun felt brutal. 

qotd: I just did the math and the first trail runs I ever did was as a high school sophomore running cross country. That was 49 years ago!!  The two famous courses were Sunken Meadows Park on Long Island and Van Courtlandt Park in the Bronx. 

Outdoor stuff includes day hiking, camping, MTB, etc. don’t do any hunting. When I was young I did a lot of small one design sailboat racing.