Soggy Saturday

There was a good turn out of runners for Saturday's run again.  Ian had plans for a modified BBU.  Instead of doing the east side portion of the course, he was replacing it with the Scuffle so he could see how it looked; the race is in two weeks.  Zak and Jeremy were going even longer. 

It became obvious that the group I was in wasn't gonna hang on to Ian and the faster group so I proposed following the actual BBU course.  That was fine with everyone.  Lets see, we had the Squirrel, Blaine, Julia, Susannah, and Mark.  There was some mud, but the course was mostly dry.

Back in the parking lot, Susannah and Mark had the miles they wanted.  Blaine and Julia were going to stay with us for a bit more before calling it good.  By the time we were on the connector, it was down to Scout and Squirrel.  The good news was that Mindy's shins seemed to be better.  The bad news?  Both of us were feeling the effects of the heat.  There was some walking of hills.  No worries, just adjusting to conditions.  Neither of us is really in training mode right now. 

David joined up with us just after we returned to Brad from the Connector.  We'd decided to see where the new trail, directly crossing the Boundary Trail where the Connector connects.  I'm not sure it's supposed to be there, but it was marked with red flags.  Not far, maybe 20 yards in, there was no more trail, just red flags.  We bushwacked along.  We popped out on the trail that's just below where the Reverse Mindy joins the trail that connects the Tote to the Boundary.  David went his own way here.  Mindy and I took the Tote to the summit.  There we saw Zak and Jeremy pop out from the trail.  Wow!  We did fists bumps and cheered them as they headed off for Lunch Break.  We headed down the mountain, ending up with 13.85 miles. 

Even though I changed my clothes, I was pretty well soggy again by the time we got to E&Ls.  As we were heading in, Julia, David, Jeff, and Ian were heading out.