Running
Early Monday morning run to start the week off right or I hope. Thankfully so many people keep their fun Halloween decorations on all night so I can enjoy them during these early hours. 🎃
Beautiful fall day running around Carver Nature Reserve. Explored some new trails and made sure to connect up to the last time I was out there so the map stays complete.
Finding my way around Lake Ann’s trails both marked and unmarked. Only ran into a few obstacles on this run and only almost fell once when I was in tall grass with some poorly constructed wood blocks to run on which I couldn’t see. However, sure could tell it was fall in the trees. 🍂
Sometimes you have a double run day 🤷♂️. Some meetings got canceled and with how busy the day was up to this point I just needed a break. So I hit the trails north of my house as I know them well enough to zone out and not trip on things. All the rain brought the water level up to the boards 😳.
Didn’t wake up as early as I planned today to have enough time for a full run and get some birthday donuts for our youngest today. However, I did still get some miles done in the dark before the store opened.
Had less than an hour to fit this run in today. However, in making the two loops around this “creek” today I found a path I never knew existed that had this fun boardwalk.
Realized one block from my house I forgot my knuckle lights. Such a rookie mistake 🤦♂️. So this run had me in the dark for most of it except a couple of places I pulled out my phone because there was no light anywhere. Guess that is what you get for starting at 5:30am.
It was a nice day out in the Regional Trail. Glad to have squeezed this run in as once I got back to work the rest of the day was putting out fires.
Legs still felt it from Saturday I am guessing for the first part of this run . However, it was a really nice day and since I had the day off I went longer than expected. Also, I think I found a path in these weeds that I can make a trail another time but will need something to cover my legs.
Trout Brook Ten Mile Trail run in the books. It was a really great morning out for a run up and down hills around Willow River State Park. Maybe more hills than I anticipated but I went out with the mindset to have fun and I did.
Had to stop and take a couple pictures. 🤷♂️
Found a Calvatia Gigantea (giant puffball mushroom) on the trails today which I am pretty sure I have not seen one this big. Using my hand for scale but realized after the shot and I kept running that my hand was in the foreground so take it for what it is worth but it was bigger than my hand…
Let’s just say I love the weather today but the run felt not as good as it should with a race two days away. What did I get myself into…. oh well it should be a great day with good scenery.
Sometimes the Race finds you…
Oddly enough I was just saying earlier this week I should find a trail race to run but I have been dragging my feet a lot. Well that is all over now because of a pending deadline of having to register by midnight tonight for The Trout Brook race I found earlier in the week. Amazing what can happen when you really have to make a decision quick as I only realized the deadline tonight. However, I do believe that this is probably a good millage for my first Trail Run. I might not be in the best race shape I could be going into this but honestly I am kind of going for more of the experience and not worried to much about my overall time. I think what helped push me to this race is that I have been to the area before camping and it has always been our favorite and I think that is what kept nagging at me for the past couple of days. Oddly enough I can not find in my quick searching what the exact route is going to be to get to the 10 miles (or 1 eric as a specific person calls it) but I am sure I have covered 90% of the trails around Willow River Falls from our camping trips there (2020-10-16, 2020-10-18, 2021-10-22). If anyone is bored or free and wants to join me there is a couple hours left to register and we can muddle through it together.
Well I can’t back out now it is Official!
Meeting got canceled so I took advantage of the extra 30 min I had this morning and went for a quicker run . Not an early morning Harbor view but around Mitchell Marsh is not all bad.
It is good to be back home this week and with a lighter meeting load this morning I decided to get out for a run . It will be interesting to see what becomes of this construction but am guessing multiple houses where there was one and some lower land they are building up.
Really sad to hear that the Twin Cities Marathon got cancelled today but with the weather I get where organizers had to make that tough call. I do feel bad for the runners to as I know being on that starting line a year ago all the hard work and miles you have to put in to get to that point.
Morning shakeout after a long day before. Didn’t get a great sunrise run this morning as I found out later in the day there was smoke in the air which is why it looked overcast.
