Running Wild

Today Lori and I explored a park near our house that we had never known about.  It's a 1 mile trail that includes a historical site, which is a log cabin built in 1859.  We took the dogs with us and walked the length of the trail and back, which parallels a year round creek.  Later in the afternoon I did this run from our house to the park.  It's about 2.5 miles to the trailhead, and about a mile on the trail one way.  It was a very nice warm and sunny day for February and I felt pretty out of shape.  I've got to start running more.

Summary Data
Total Time (h:m:s)	0:55:31	8:13 pace
Moving Time (h:m:s)	0:54:47	8:06 pace
Distance (mi )	6.75
Moving Speed (mph)	7.4 avg.	10.2 max.
Elevation Gain (ft)	+482 / -482
Temperature (°F)	76.1°F avg.	77°F high
Wind Speed ( mph)	SSW   7.5 avg.	SSW   9.2 max.

Ran the trail at the Twin Creeks Historical Park with the dogs.  At the end we went bushwhacking and found the remains of a burned down old house that was tucked up in the woods.

 I don't know if this google pedometer map will show up, but today I did a run that started at 3M and proceeded into the River Place neighborhood.  This is a really ritzy neighborhood that overlooks the Colorado river and has 30 mile views for most of the run.  It has a long downhill stretch going down into the vally and a long uphill stretch coming out that really took the wind out of my sails, but it was a great run.  I need to stop doing this once or twice a week stuff because being in pseudoshape makes these runs too hard.

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I had the day off today and I did a trail run from my house that included loops in the West Side Preserve and the Discovery Wells Preserve.  It was a nice day for February.

Summary Data
Total Time (h:m:s)	0:43:25	8:00 pace
Moving Time (h:m:s)	0:43:25	8:00 pace
Distance (mi )	5.43
Moving Speed (mph)	7.5 avg.	11.6 max.
Elevation Gain (ft)	+176 / -176
Temperature (°F)	76.1°F avg.	77°F high
Wind Speed ( mph)	S   9.8 avg.	S   10.4 max.

 Today I ran an early morning 12.13 mile run with Dan Berg, John Geissinger, and a friend of John's named Mark.  We started at the Brushy Creek park on Parmer Ln and ran west to the Twin Lakes trailhead on 183, then east to the Avery Ranch trailhead, and ended up back at the Brushy Creek park.  Later in the afternoon I did an easy 2 mile run with the dogs at the Twin Creeks Historical Park.

Two miles with the dogs at Discovery Wells Preserve.

Just 2 miles with the dogs at Twin Creeks as Lori is out of town this week and it's left to me to walk them.  They are old and can't go far.

Just a quick little run with the dogs.

 Tonight I ran the trails in the preserves around my neighborhood while Lori walked the dogs.

Just a slow couple of mile with the dogs and Lori at Twin Creeks.

Today I ran at the Sandy Creek Park.  I was looking for trail there, but only found small trails that went from campsites down to the lake.  I ended up following a dried up cove of the lake up a dry creek bed for a mile or so until it came out on Lime Creek road, which I followed back to the park.  On the way home I saw what looked like a large, close meteor come down.  It was very bright and burning and trailing black smoke.  It broke apart on the way down and each of the pieces was burning as they fell.  I don't know how close it was or if it struck the ground.  It was probably much further away than it looked but it was the best meteor I've ever seen.

 Today was my first day back after a week in Minneapolis and this morning we had to take Abbie to the vet and have her put to sleep.  She had developed a large tumor on her spleen and was bleeding internally in it and becoming more anemic every day.  Even with surgery and chemotherapy the prognosis was only going to be 2 months, and it wouldn't have been a good 2 months.  For years she had gone trail running with me every day up until the past couple of years when she got too old. Today I ran a figure 8 loop on the trails in Steiner Ranch while Lori walked Maggie on one lobe of the route. 

 Today I did an out and back from my house that ran to and along the trail at twin creeks.

 Tonight I ran the loop in the Discovery Wells Preserve and Lori took Maggie walking.

 Today Mark Lettang and I ran in the West Side Preserve and the Discovery Wells Preserve.  It was a nice day but very windy.