Notes
Partly sunny not too cold, especially for January. OSGR today. I got there early to run some extra miles. Ran a mile but then had to come back to poop. Then headed out again. The Northern loop trail looked like it was groomed. There were a couple inches of snow in the woods. Ran to the summit, then stopped for a selfie. Came back down the same way, since it was a mile to the top. Still had time before the group showed up, so I headed across the street to see how it was. Ran down the link trail, planning to make it 4 miles before the group run. The fat bikes had packed most of the trails which made it good running. I turned up the Snowmoblie trail, miscalculated and ran further than I planned before turning around. Came back and was going to be just a little short of 4.5 so I ran out to the start of the O trail before going back to the parking lot. Just about everybody was there, it was a big group, 20 people. Val wanted to run out of the park and check out the Beautiful loop. We went all the way out the snowmobile trail, then had to start breaking trail, which wasn't bad the snow wasn't too deep. Stopped once we got to a big cornfield and I had a GU before we started again. I was feeling tired and pretty much running in between people so not really conversing much. I did meet Brian who is an ultra guy but doesn't know many of the other runners except Tanya. We went all the way out to some power lines before turning around. Started running with Craig and it was good to talk to him, it made the time go by faster. Then got to talk to Tanya for a while and her training for Vermont. Once back into the park, some people went straight back on the snowmobile trail, while the rest of us took another windy trail back which was a little longer. When we got back to the Link trail, I knew I would need another 1/2 mile to get to 15 miles. So I took off, while they were waiting for everyone to catch up. Ran back and went about a quarter mile or so before turning around and meeting everybody back at the parking lot. Good run today, pretty happy with getting 15 miles. I felt good after.
Gear: NB tights, blue long T, water pack, gloves the last couple miles as my hands got cold.