January 2013

Week ending 1/6

Tues 1/1 4 miles on Cottonwood

Wed 1/2 4 miles on Cottonwood

Thu 1/3  4 miles on Cottonwood

Sat 1/5 Tiled the bathroom.

Sun 1/6 11 miles at Croft with Ben. I guess I need this down week, because it felt good to do it. 

from Dairy Ridge: New Edition to the Lake Trail to the pool to Palmetto Trail

Total 23 miles in 4 runs



Week ending 1/13

Tue 1/8  4 miles, including 2 miles barefoot

Wed 1/9  4 miles on Cottonwood

Fri 1/11  3 miles easy

Sat 1/12  31 miles at Tsali Frosty Foot 50K

Total 42 miles in 4 runs



Week ending January 20

Fri 1/18  2 miles. After a rainy week and some needed rest, this run showed just how fatigued I was after Tsali. 

Sat 1/19  7 miles at Croft. I was still pretty dead-legged, and unsure what would happen on Sunday.

from Dairy Ridge: New Edition to Palmetto

Sun 1/20  14 miles at Croft with Bristol. Excellent and fun run with Carroll, Gordon, Seth, Scott and Mark. Running Jerry Perry is always fun, and pretty darn brutal. Carroll and I took a little different route back, cutting off a few miles that Seth, Gordon and Scott ran.

from Dairy Ridge: New Edition to Jerry Perry around the lake to Foster Mill to the Lake Trail to the pool to Palmetto

Total: 23 miles in 3 runs

Seth, Gordon, Mark, Scott, Carroll, Ned
not pictured: The Enduro-Dog

It's a dog's life.

Week ending January 27

Mon 1/21  4 miles, including 2 miles barefoot

Tue 1/22 3 miles

Wed 1/23  2 miles. The trend was ominous, matching my energy level and my body aches. 

Thu, Fri 1/24, 1/25  I listened.


Sat 1/26  7 1/2 miles at Croft with Bristol. A really nice run with the B-Dog. An apparently icy creek crossing sent me downstream a bit to cross at the bridge, adding 1/2 mile.

from Dairy Ridge: New Edition to Lake Johnson connector to Palmetto

Sun 1/27 21 miles at Croft. A terrific morning spent running with Cate and Bristol, mostly, but also Scott, Ben, and Susie Snyder, a pro X-Terra racer from Virginia who happened to be at the trailhead at the same time. Not long into the run Scott, Ben and Susie rolled away, and though I was tempted to go with them, did not. Cate and I had a great talk about all those things you talk about when you run for three and a half hours together. We spent five or seven minutes at the car in between laps, at least some looking for my keys which I had slyly stashed in my waist band. 

from Southside: Centerline to Fern Gully to Southside Loop all the way around including the bedrock crossing, then just Southside Loop around. 

Total 37 1/2 miles in 5 runs


Thu 1/31  4 miles, including 2 miles barefoot. This has been an unhealthy living week so far. Felt good to get out and run after three busy evenings.

January total: 129 1/2 miles in 17 runs