Friday, Buddy Bones and I drove to the Ski Lodge to run the hills of Carroll County. Initially, I thought we would run over to the highway and do several repeats on a half-mile long hill that has about a 10% grade. Then the idea was to do a long out-and-back over a big drainage, stopping on the way back to do some speed work on the old go-cart track. At the last minute, we scrapped all that.
Instead, we opted to leave the Ski Lodge and run Steen Hill Road, a 2.5 miles stretch of dirt trail that traverses vasts forests of mostly hardwoods. It was just a long slow run/walk which is what I need now. Steen Hill dumps into the delta on the opposite end of where we started running it. From there we turned back towards the hills and wend out way through a maze of mostly gravel roads on a cool and lovely day.
To make a short story long, we did this:
1- 11.2
2- walk 1.0
3- 2.01
4- walk .51
5- 1.1
6- walk 2.18
total foot miles = 18.0 as 14.31/3.69 in 4:02 (13:20 per mile).
This was our first long foray in several weeks due to the training and taper for the two school 5Ks. I only have a few weeks left to prepare for The Great Noxapater Journey Run. It is now all about volume and supplies. I have already started a bag of things to go in my pack, which will be much lighter this time around. The plan is to leave Greenwood around noon time on November 19th.
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