Tonight we traveled a little further up Swamp Rd. to my least favorite Tyler Park Hill "Covered Bridge." This hill as most of you know is extremely challenging and to top it off a late afternoon thunderstorm brought in a lot of rain, making a mess of the trails that we used tonight. When I went out yesterday to figure out tonight's course I had established a nice 1 mile warm-up on the trails. Well, with all the hard rain that fell the trails became extremely muddy and even washed out. Reminding me of my high school running day's when we would run in the Delhaas Woods that we called "Sloppy Silver Lake." Those trails would have us running through water up to our knees, similar to tonight's conditions. Now the little boy inside of me was thrilled with the sloppiness, but the coach inside of me had me concerned for the well being of the runners that came out, so I gave them two options, one being we stick to what I mapped out yesterday, and the other being we stick to the dry land and I GPS the warm-up. The Speedsters that came out tonight picked the first option, not really expecting to run through small streams like we did. In the end we all survived, a tad muddier, but now armed with a new running story to share with others some day down the road.
The Mud Runners:
Rod, Tim, John, Jackie, Haydee, Andrea, Brendan, Steve, "Rainbow Hunter" Kevin, and back from China Scott Craig.
Rod was able to climb the hill tonight for the first time without walking, he had never done this before tonight, which is pretty cool and the trademark Winter Series Signs made an off season appearance tonight. Maybe the signs pulled Rod and the rest of us to the top of the hill tonight...
Workout:
1 sloppy mile warm-up
5x600 with 600 rest
Speedsters, have a fun, but safe holiday weekend! Those running the ODDyssey half marathon this weekend good luck and good luck to those racing in other places. Represent!
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