Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Where Are All the Horseflies?

I need to get my marathon training schedule squared away. I filled out a calendar months ago using Sunday as my long run days but that the long run has moved up to Saturdays now that Woodlands Fit started the fall marathon program. I checked my calendar and noted a 6 mile run for Wednesday which is now Tuesday given the day shift. I met Grant and Brit at Forestgate Park to run Flintridge last night. We normally run 4 miles when doing Flintridge, turning around a little past Falconwing. I continued on last night and ran a loop in the George Mitchell Nature Preserve. It had been a couple of weeks since I had run on the trails. To my delight, I didn't encounter even one horsefly on the trail last night. I don't know where they all headed but certainly did not miss them.
Wearing the Garmin again since the ban on the GAMM cruise last week, I saw that I would be a little short on the 6 miles so I stayed on Flintridge and entered Forestgate Park by the tennis courts. That got me within a tenth of a mile of 6. I finished my run right as Mick and Carmen finished as well from the normal Forestgate finish.

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