GoG trail run

I headed over to Garden of the Gods on Thursday morning for an early run.  The slow(er) trail group headed out towards the west side of the park before making a sharp turn and going up. And up and up.  We finally climbed to the ridge and ended up on Rampart Range Rd.  The climb was pretty tough and we weren't really on established trails.  Dodging trees, catcus, and other shrubbery just added to the challenge of the climb.  After hitting RR road, we ran another half mile to the east end of the ridge and then made the steep descent back into GoG.  Totals for the trip were 4.86 miles and just under 1:30 time.

palmer point trail

Took my dog and my parents' dog to Palmer Park this morning.  Pretty uneventful 4 mi loop on the Palmer Point trail.  I don't think I've ever seen so much mud on the trails there.  The first mile was like running through glue.  I was afraid I was going to run out of my shoes a couple times.

Shins really seem to be holding up well as the mileage has increased a little bit.

GOG10M dry run

Ran the whole GOG10M course today.  Got to Memorial Park in Manitou a few minutes before 7:00am and had to play catchup as the group split before I was ready to go.  Felt pretty good for the first 5 miles.  I started feeling some weirdness in my big toe on my right foot as I was making my way around the concrete loop in the middle of the Garden.  It went away pretty quickly and I started the long haul back out.  After making the turn to the north past Ridge Rd the long hill up to Garden Dr really took its toll on me and reduced my pace to a power walk.  The trip back out of the Garden to Manitou was pretty uneventful.  I need to save something for the climb up to Balanced Rock on the way out.  Finally got back to Memorial Park about 1:55 after I started.  Not blazing but I felt pretty good running most of the route and getting a feel for the whole course.

Ran 3 mi in Palmer Park on Thursday morning before work.

oh yeah

I almost forgot I had a blog here.  I was trying to find a way to link my motionbased log here but, frankly, Garmin sucks.  I'm almost contemplating writing some sort of wordpress plugin to display my runs uploaded from my Garmin 305 here.  I'd like a little database backend to store the sessions, too.  Also some summary data that isn't available with the free version of motionbased.  Guess I have my summer project.  Outside of running and working in the yard, of course.

Not much has changed in the way of race plans.  I've been training for the GOG10M on June 14th, the BTMR on July 12th, and, of course, the Ascent.  Might run the Sailin' Shoes 10K too.