Marty's Run Around: Thursday Sept 2,2010

What a Week

Well it's been a week since I last sent up a blog, so here is the recap.

Its been hot , but this morning back to my favorite place to run for 7 great miles. Start at River Road trail and make my 3 mile loop thru the golf course

With all this heat and sun, the course is as green and plush as ever. The groundskeepers are awesome .

As usual , they all wave at me as I pass, in early before golfers hit the links . I am lucky or as long as they have worked there, they have always seen me a couple times a week in and running, so it must be OK

Running and mountain biking has been good, and the past Saturday was the 5th DINO trail run

I needed to continue to get points in the series, and Southwestway park was the course.

I remember it from the mountain bike , and its narrow , winding and Saturday , really dusty.

I sneezed for hours afterwards, and managed to get 2nd in age group. No excuses and I knew who my competition was from many years of running.

As I was peddling my wares at the tent, everyone else was warming up . I got about a 2 minute jog in and I DO NOT have that 800 meter speed anymore.

That was the race, the first 800 meters on horse path where you could pass and position yourself for enterance to trails .

Onec you hit the trail it was single file and nowhere to pass. I managed to see my competition about 12 ahead of me, but in between were those weekend jocks that can bust out in the front for the photo opps, later to die the big death.

So even with only 12 runners between us the gap grew, as he had faster people in front of him and I had bumbling dead meat to try to get around.

Oh well , 2nd in race but still first in series by a good bit. Out there agin in October so I will try to warm up a little better and give it my best 800