Hey all. A pretty good but slow soaking run for me on Saturday. About 15 miles around the lake on the water covered trails. Pretty good soaker. The creeks and rivulets were flowing pretty strong down the hills on the south side of the lake. Gushing white water and a few small waterfalls. it the summer these can be totally dry. Followed that up with 8.5 on Sunday at French Creek. The woods was all green and freshly scrubbed from the rain.

Windy today. Plan is for 6-8 miles at a trail TBD after work. Planet of fitness at lunch.

QOTD: Shamed to admit just reading National Geographic at the moment while taking care of business in the morning. Summer I do more reading out on the deck. Need to find some good sci-fi or something for this year. I sadly have no recommendations. I am old school and still do printed books, no eReader.

Monday is supposed to be an SRD, but I was going to run this morning anyway. But, I was up a little later than normal doing my brother's state taxes. That sucker got a $314 dollar refund and a couple of grand from the feds. I told him he owed me a box of shotgun shells and an expensive decoy. I called a turkey up for him this year and netted him 2300+ in tax returns, so that is the least he could do. Anyway, I'll run 6.5 after work today. I cleaned up the trails yesterday with the weed eater. I love running on them when they are cleaned up, makes me feel fast.

QOTD: I am currently reading "Junkyard Dogs" (Longmire Mystery) by Craig Johnson. I have always loved stories set in the West. And Craig Johnson's ability to build characters is really top notch. For the most part, the stories and relationships don't feel contrived. They feel real. I have read some other critically acclaimed writers whose stories just seemed forced; they don't flow naturally. I guess I have read about 10 of his novels that are part of the Longmire series. I've been stuck on them for quite awhile. I finished "Serpent's Tooth" last week, and I finished "Another Man's Moccasins" on Saturday, both Longmire mysteries. I should finish "Junkyard Dogs" tonight or tomorrow. My favorite Longmire mystery is "Hell is Empty", which takes place in the Big Horn backcountry in Wyoming. It gets into some Native American mysticism and all sorts of stuff that I like to read and think about. It is a great series.

I have not used audio books, and I tend to like the book to be in my hand rather than use an electronic device. However, I do use a Kindle fairly often.

SRD. Spending the day goofing off at work trying not to earn my paycheck .

AT - Staying off the trails to prevent injuries, eh. Now why didn't think about that?  Actually was going to stick to the dirt road on the mountain yesterday, but the siren song of the trail pulled me in.

Xtreme - The leaves have been looking really nice lately. The one thing I like about the spring.

Mandy - Looks like a good bit of weight on there. Good to get the legs strong.  If you ever find that elusive creature called a tailwind enjoy it.  Seems like it disappeared from this area because that nasty guy, headwind, moved in .

LB2 - Isn't is a little late for taxes or is LA just behind everyone else.  If he made you do an extension I say that's worth an extra box of shells.

QOTD: Too much medical and investment stuff.  I did get caught up on my Alaska Magazines over the past several weeks. Years abo when I was driving truck I would listen to some books on tape. It's was better than nothing but I'd rather read.  Can't get into using a tablet for books either for some reason which is kind of weird considering how much I use the internet.

Hi all, spent the weekend north of here looking for morels and squeezed in some nice trail runs along the way. I got a pair of speedgoats on clearance sale and finally got a chance to run them through the ringer. After 22 miles on the trails I feel they are going to make a great race day shoe, I think they'll wear out to quickly for a everyday shoe. They have a heavy lug on the sole and will probably wear down quickly.

QOTD: nothing lately, not enough hours in the day

Congrats to all those racers out there this past weekend.

I ended up doing 10 yesterday afternoon, it was really hot, but my legs felt a little better.

I might be joining my DD for another race next weekend. It's a 12-hour scavenger hunt type of thing run on some loop trails.  Same trails that my DD rides on sometimes, I've done a lot of the loops while crewing for her, plus we ran one of the loops at that memorial for her friend a month or so ago.  We'll revisit the tree we planted for him.  Anyway we know the trails pretty well so it should give us an advantage on the treasure hunt part, the run should be fun, but again, hot (and very slow).

qotd: I've been reading "Heat & Light", Jennifer Haigh (recommended by my DW).  It took me a long time to get into it, now it's a bit better, I'm just trying to get through it.  I'm reading it on my phone on the Kindle app.  Have never done a audio book. I do prefer old school paperbacks.

XT - naked villager pictures in Nat Geo while in the bathroom.

Mandy - nice trip. BTW, that first picture reminds me of a "first day of school" photo.

Gator - did you find any morels, or just a nice walk in the woods looking?

Queen - I get the same feeling after funerals.

"Pilgrim's Wilderness' about  a cult leader/father 'Papa Pilgrim and his cult/family in Alaska, mainly centered around their battle with the NPS  and their land by the Kennecott Mine in SE Alaska. 

I read this last year ... it was a Christmas gift from my DIL in Alaska.