Running Aug 3 thru Aug 9

[Jolt]

I found out yesterday that it is crucial to check the battery life on your point & shoot camera before you get on the trail. Imagine my supreme disappointment when I pulled it out of it's holster on my hydration belt & aimed it to take a shot only to have the camera not turn on! (Yes, 11miles toting a dead camera, boo!) Thankfully my running buddy was patient enough with me to tinker around with my phone & use the camera on that. Not the clearest images, but I figured you should see what my 11miler long run this wknd looked like!

Next time I'll have the battery charged on the real camera! Wishing I had shots of the single track sections that were nice & muddy.



It was a beautiful run!! I would've loved to have gone further, but the 50k taper has begun and I'm doing my best to "behave". We hopped in the lake immediately after finishing as our "ice bath" which worked well before the 1hr trip back home. Legs are feeling good today.

Great job getting the runs in this week ladies, you are inspirational!!

Nice pics--your trails look so much smoother than the rock-and root-strewn ones I usually run on! Or is that just b/c you didn't get pictures of the tougher sections?

[Urlea]

Nice pics--your trails look so much smoother than the rock-and root-strewn ones I usually run on! Or is that just b/c you didn't get pictures of the tougher sections?

It's a mix of terrain at this state park. Over the course of 11miles we ran across hill endowed prairie grass fields, wide paths in the woods & single track/rooty sections. The single track areas it just wasn't convenient to pull out the camera, I'm pretty focused on my footing at that point.

[OakLeaf]

That's beautiful Urlea! So different from central/western ND.

[Crankin]

I was thinking the same thing, Jolt. I almost found myself splayed out on the trail last week several times after hitting a rock the wrong way. And I was doing a "fast walk/hike."

[indigoiis]

Yeah, Rhode Island and Mass are pretty well known for their rocky rutty woods. Our trails are basically all rock with the occasional mud thrown in.

[Jolt]

Yeah, Rhode Island and Mass are pretty well known for their rocky rutty woods. Our trails are basically all rock with the occasional mud thrown in.

Plenty of mud this year! You should've seen the trail I was on yesterday--it had one spot with ankle-deep water on top of mud mixed with gravel (mind you, this was not by a stream) and a few patches of ankle-deep mud with the occasional rock sticking up. Lots of rocks and roots. And I'm crazy enough to try running this trail barefoot...

[indigoiis]

I'm intrigued by barefoot and vffs particularly after reading and beginning to practice chirunning. For now when I run the trail I am in trail runners and I do like them. I bought them so I could hike in them, too. They're pretty good but I do notice that if I am going fast I tend to turn my ankle out a little.

On the road I am in New Balances with minimal padding. They're pretty flexible.

Anyhow today I did 3.2 on the road, with hills. It was humid and sticky.

[Urlea]

3.9 Miler today. I ninjaed my hubby's Garmin to see what my pace was on my short run for the week. A few shin splints & my overheating making me shed a layer to run only in the sports bra (still feels immodest but I'm getting over it.) were the only complaints. It was a good run and I was able to maintain an 8:44 average, which was nice.