Musta Got Lost

The plan was to run between 12-15 miles out at Huntsville State Park for my longest long run before Hogs Hunt 25k on the 16th of this month. Net net I wound up right where I wanted to be mileage wise; however, I had to improvise on how I got there.

I woke up around 5:3o Sunday morning and tuned in to the Weather Channel as I normally do on long run mornings. When I heard the annoying beeping warning, I figured that couldn't be good news. The weather was nice and dry in The Woodlands; however, Huntsville State Park and areas further north were under a severe thunderstorm warning until 11am. Looking at the radar, it looked like a line of thunderstorms was about to move through the area; it just looked like rain/no red stuff after the initial line. So figuring that the weather would be fine, I slowly started getting ready to head up there. A few miles from the HSP exit, it started pouring down rain; it was raining so hard I didn't hear my cell phone ringing. I heard the missed call bleep as the rain let up. It was Sara calling to see where I was; I seem to have a reputation as a fair weather runner and bets were being taken as to whether or not I'd show. All this and I wasn't even late for our 7:30 start time.

The storm passed through and the weather held out for us to get in an unexpected cool run in before more rain came. I normally watch my footing on trails so I was extra careful with everything being wet. No falls again..... so I'm still not a true trail runner yet.

Last week in running around 10 miles, we took a right on the perimeter road and then cut back into the trail while running around the lake in a nice circle as shown by the Garmin. This week to get extra mileage, we ran out to the feeder road and then back to cut back into the trail. I thought I was cutting into the same place I did last week but I ended up cutting back to soon and wound up back at the Nature Center after 5.5 miles. I took the opportunity to refuel with shot blocks that I had in my car and top off my fuel belt bottles and headed back into the trail. I planned on running the trail backwards up to about 10 miles total then head back. I made it out to the dam and got back in. Turned out to be a nice training run.