Falling Behind

Oops. Didn't mean to fall behind on the posts. Running is way more fun than writing about running - especially for someone not normally into writing. So. Lets start with the best thing; Rick ran two days in a row with me. I don't know when the last time that happened.

Saturday, our road was being paved. Our fields were wet and pretty high. Rick and I opted to go to a local running/biking path (paved). We really didn't have a lot of time to do anything else since we were heading to a wedding in Newry later that afternoon. Just a quick four. Rick felt okay, but the leg/knee wasn't great (at least the wedding was!).

After a late night, we got up early to make sure we got to Danielle and Ryan's for a trail run and yummy breakfast. Katy and Chuck, Ryan, and I opted for the full nine mile run while Rick, Jamie, Linda, and Mindy met up with us for five of our middle miles. I'd never run on the Cathance trails before, but they were as advertised. Linda and I plan to return soon. Lots of good single track mixed with lots of interesting chatter!

Danielle stayed home with Sam and Jerry while we ran so that we had a great breakfast waiting for us. Besides pancakes (plain, blueberry, or chocolate chips), real maple syrup, fruit, bacon (lots and lots), coffee (pots and pots), there were chocolate cupcakes by Mindy. Good thing I'd run nine :)

Danielle and Ryan were the ideal hosts; besides the food and the run, we had entertainment - Sam is such a happy social little girl that smiles almost constantly. Their cats, mainly Gigi, were great fun to watch/play with. Gigi looks like she's always wound. Rick lasted a surprising amount of time before his cat allergies told us we had to leave. Some cats seem to be less allergy-causing than others.

Rick felt way better after those five than the run on Saturday. I think he's finding his body likes the Bradbury-like runs also. "The road to hell is paved...Run trails."

Monday I opted to try the fields; Jerry had bush-hogged a path around the perimeter. I'm glad he did, but it will take some more mowing and running before it's good. Plus there will need to be a few detours around some nasty patches of poison ivy. I hope I washed it off before it was too late (part of the reason I just ran four). After about a mile I switched back to the motor-cross path which is mowed very closely and which Dennis (Linda and Jerry's son) has expanded. Now one lap of that is almost a mile. Rather than run the roads (or through ticks and more poison ivy), mile laps seemed good. Oh, I was only about 15 minutes into the run before the sky really opened up. The rain felt refreshing.