qotd: So who ya rooting for on Sunday.

 

Broncos.

What race did you run, Sandy?  Glad the "contact" didn't cause any permanent damage.

6.4 miles in the Arcata Community Forest this morning.  Came across the lady who ran my FA 50k with me and we chatted for a few minutes.  Hopefully, I'll be able to get up to her speed (or as close to it as I could every possible get) and we can run together again.  She told me about a local women's hiking group that has a page on FB and I joined it.  Sounds like a lot of fun.  There are chapters all over.  The local is "Hikerbabes Community: Humboldt, California Chapter."  There's a chapter in Portland, OR, so I told my BFF about it.

QOTD: Bengals.  They're due.

8 miles total yesterday. Went out with the group for 5 and then another 3 later in the afternoon while DS was fishing.  Pretty nice day. Now it's about 25 degrees colder with a snow-rain mix. I''ll get out for 3-4  miles, then some strengthwork.

Sandy- Congrats on the race. Hope there's nothing hurt or bruised, other than ego, with all the contact work.

qotd: Not a football fan and only can tell who is playing by these responses. I hope all the fans have a great game! Good luck

Thanks everyone.

fatozzig, I did the Rocky Raccoon 50 mile in the Huntsville State Park. It’s a flat and fast trail that has a history of fast times, the record for the 100 mile is 12:44:33 by Ian Sharman. It also has lots of roots though.

I feel like I was hit by a truck!!!  Run related stuff feels fine, not too much soreness and I can walk around and go up and down stair ok. Better than usual after a 50 miler. But the after effects from hitting stuff is pretty bad.

I had about 5 major root kicks, went down 3 times and saved it twice.  2 of the falls were fine rolled and no issues. One of the ‘saves’ was sopped by my grabbing a tree, but it was a ‘hard stop’ were I jammed my middle finger and got a cut in the skin between the jammed finger and my pointer. It was bleeding like crazy, my handheld bottle was soaked, it was dripping.  But I applied pressure to the cut with my shirt tail and it stopped a little later. Today the jammed finger is really swollen and bruised. 

But the big hit was near the end of lap two. I tripped on a root and went down like a ton of bricks and landed on another huge root right on my left side. I have deep bruised ribs. I can breath fine but if I move in the wrong way or blow my nose it’s really really painful. Sneezing or coughing would be killer. I also somehow hit my mouth and I really thought I was going to feel a lost or chipped tooth, but it was fine an it’s totally ok today.

Obviously I kept going afterwards and was able to finish the race. It was ok when I was walking, but when I started up running again it would hurt for the first 10 to 15 steps, but then it would settle down so I could keep running. I did the last 17 miles that way and it wasn’t bad.  But last night and today it is rough.

I do think I’ll live.

Darn almost. . .

By the way I don’t know why I wrote Broncs instead of the Bengals yesterday. A little woozy after all the contact running.