Easy run with Dan Line at lunch. We did 7 minute miles and 6x200 meter strides. I will run again later after school. 3.5 miles
(Adrenaline-389 miles)
I decided to wear some orange and hit some hills in the mountains after school this evening. I went on a trail that takes you up on an old gas line road and it is a nasty climb. When I hit the top I went past Hogs back and ran into a big dog that came charging after me. A little old man started to yell at the dog to stop. The dog kept coming so the old man came down from where he was to get his dog. The dog ended up just being obnoxious and the old man was super friendly. He was excited that I was running up there and asked if I did it often, I told him that I had been up that way two other times. He is a retired guy that had volunteered to create the section of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail though Perry and Willard. He was finishing his summer long project when I ran into him. He created a nice section of single track trail that goes for about 6 miles, quite a project for a guy that had to be over 70 years old. He was pretty proud of the trail and wanted me to run on it. I visited with him for a few minutes while he showed me his work. He has a quarter mile to go before he hits a spring where he is putting in a place for people to fill up water bottles. When he hits the spring he will be done with his work and turn it over to someone else to do the next section. He told me that the last two times that he has been by the spring he has ran into cougars, that is why he had the dog with him. I wasn't very excited to hear about the cougars, but the rest of it sounded great.
I finished my run on his single track trail. It was one of the coolest stretches of single track that I have been on, especially on a beautiful fall late afternoon like today. When I came off the mountain and hit the canal trail I pushed a mile down in the low 6:00s. Overall it was a great run and it really trashed me too. Those hills are killer! 6.5 miles in 53:00
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