Monthly Archives: January 2010

Ran 7 miles Time: 59:37 – 8:31/mile – HR avg 143 – 650 Ft Elevation gain/loss

OK, I’ll admit, when I looked at the temperature outside on the computer I immediately thought “Gym”. But then the morning gym plan got de-railed by my 1.5 year old Ali being really fussy and sick so I couldn’t take her to the gym day care. But it turns out I’m really glad, because that was a really sweet run.

I think it must have been warming up quick because the sun was out in full force, and I never got cold once. I was wearing tights and leg warmers, 2 long sleeves and a jacket, and 2 pairs of gloves, plus injinji socks in my FiveFingers though. I ended up taking one pair of gloves off half a couple miles in because I was too hot.

IT WAS SO GORGEOUS OUT THERE!

And it was super duper (and I mean duper) fun getting fresh powder tracks on a nice smooth trail for an hour. (OK, not quite as fun as fresh tracks bombing down a steep, deep, 35-40 degree mile long bowl full of powder on a snowboard, but pretty fun in a different way)

I have been telling myself lately I wish it were warmer so I could go run easier in the mountains, but today made me really grateful for seasons, because that was really fun. Seriously…how often do you get to prance around for an hour on a sunny morning in 3 inches of soft fresh snow? It was not too deep to be annoying at all, but deep enough to make every step feel extra soft and smooth. And with the layers, if anything I was too warm. A lot of things have to fall together just right to make conditions like that, and while it is not rare to be able to run in the snow in colorado, running in that type of light fluff on a sunny morning without other crud on the trail isn’t that common.

6.2 miles – HR: 139 – Elevation: 1435ft – Time: 1:19.

Did a fun snow covered trail run on the Bonneville shoreline trail in Draper with jun and scott from the fast running blog.  Nice to meet you both!  That was really fun and it was a gorgeous morning with the full moon over the awakening valley with fog settled below us everywhere.

I only slept 4.5 hours which is not enough for me, and then on the drive down to the trail the food I ate the night before began wanting desperately to exit and it was not a pleasant drive.  By the time I met jun and scott at the trail I wasn’t feeling well at all.  We started up the trail but I told them to go on.  Then I lost 3-4 pounds next to the trail almost instantly and felt almost instantly better.   I covered up the mess for the benefit of myself and others who would be passing by there multiple times and then went back to the car to charge my garmin and rest for a few minutes.

Then I headed up the trail again.  I was really slow because I was tired and my body felt weak from fighting off whatever was in the bad combo of food I had eaten the night before.  But my feet felt great and totally recovered from the barefoot new years excursion.

I met jun on his way back at about mile 3 and then I started going faster to keep up with him.  I was warmed up by this time and it felt great.  It was a really enjoyable run, I really like that trail.  My feet felt great in the FF’s but the traction on those things is non-existent which makes it a little challenging on the super steep parts of the trail.  My next shoe purchase is going to be the FF treks.  They have a lot of traction and have great reviews as a trail running shoe.