Last week I finally made the decision to try the Trailbreaker marathon on April 2nd. While the last several days have been cold the warmer weather over a week ago cleared most of the snow and ice. The long range forecast looks to be about normal or 30/50 low and high temps which is nice for a marathon. I haven’t signed up yet because I can do it on race day, so as long as the weather holds and the injury bug doesn’t bite I’m going to do it. I’m not confident in guessing my time, but I would hope to be in the 3:30ish range as my last two efforts of this race ended up. Yesterday I ran the single track trail up to the Lapham tower and there was some slippery spots, but the trail was quite runnable. Both of the last couple weeks my total miles were 53. I got there in different ways though. This last week my longest run was only 12 miles on Saturday and no day off. I’ve still only taken one day this year so far. With the marathon coming up this weekend my total this work week will be low. I may take as many as three days off including today to be sure the legs are rested enough.
WTD 53
MTD 229
YTD 709
ODO 27980
Hunting:
I had a couple links presented to me that I thought are interesting the past couple weeks. The first is a link to a news clip regarding 7 deer killed in a Southern WI field by lightening. A year ago or so I posted a link showing three bucks with their horns locked together. Here is a link to another recent article and pictures with the same thing happening in Ohio this past December.
Gardening.
Two weekends ago I was able to finish pruning all my apple and peach trees. Still some minimal pruning on the pear, cherry, and plum trees. These don't need close to as much work as the apple and pear do. I also was able to burn two large piles of brush accumulated from wind damaged limbs and normal pruning last year and this winter. I noticed the crocus flowers were out as well as the leaves sprouting on the tulips on the sun side of the house. Spring can't be far now.
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