The last week has been a wonderful holiday, but not much running has gotten done. I ran last Saturday, and then nothing until today. Christmas was good. My boys opened every present ever created and we ate waaaay too much as is the holiday custom.
Most of this week has been spent like this:
No the 5yr old didn't build it by himself, but boy is he proud to play with it (sweet husband it proud to have built it, and wants to steal it and take it to work).
Needless to say when my friend Mish contacted me to say that she was coming to spend a few days in the city and did I want to meet up to run my thighs screamed "NO!", but my brain said "yes, Yes, YES!"
Mish is planning to run the Psycho Wyco Run Toto Run 50k over at Wyandotte county lake park, and has asked me to crew for her & pace her on the last 10 mile loop...so when she decided to come up this way we decided to run on that trail and get an idea of the terrain. Holy hell the terrain...I knew it was going to be hilly after reading some reports, and due to the recent snow fall, cold and frozen. I was totally unprepared for the iced over hills and SLOOOOW pace needed to navigate the trail though.
Here's a pic of one section of trail (thankfully this one had a way around):
The hills looked like this (I greatly dislike how pics do not show how steep things actually are in person):
and this:
The way out wasn't so bad as all the ice was on the downhills, but thanks to our slow pace we had to make it an out and back instead of following the whole trail around the lake which made all the ice...say it with me now...on the uphills on the way back.
The steep hills combined with ice made for a pretty damn torturous trip back, and then Mish tells me that the first and last 3 miles of FlatRock are about the same as this trail except more technical and rocky. Ummm....CRAP! Guess I'd better run wyco more often in prep for the FlatRock 25k next September.
I think it looks beautiful out there!
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