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Monday, January 24, 2011
Another icy run
Did 9 mile son Monte Sano Sunday AM. Felt great with absolutely no hip pain. Saturday was Huntsville's great Mountain Mist 50K trail run. Congrats to David Riddle for setting a new course record and for all my running buds who did this in the snow , ice and mud. Here's a video from Marcus Farris - note - it doesn't show the hardest parts of the course! I hope to do this next year.
Mountain Mist 50k, 2011 from Marcus Farris on Vimeo.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Running in the snow
Sunday did 6.37 miles on Monte Sano in the snow and ice - what a great run! First time I've gone this far in these conditions (this was Huntsville's first really big snowfall in years). Then on Monday, Lisa and I ran on the Huntsville Land Trust trails (5.8 miles) including the incredibly difficult Waterline trail - not only is this a very steep down hill, but compound that with mud and ice/snow and it was scary at times. There are two places where you have to actually lower yourself down 8-10 foot mini-cliffs - beautiful scenery but scary footing. Add to this my 6.3 miles on the treadmill Saturday for 19 miles in 3 days - my most since my hip surgery. No pain at all today, so things are looking up. I have signed up for the McKay Hollow Madness 25K trail run at the end of March which will be my longest race ever and my first race since hip surgery. I hope to have enough miles in to finish respectably by then.
