It’s been an interesting couple weeks of running. Shortly after my last post on 4/18 we left for Florida for a week long family vacation. My youngest daughter needed to get her training runs in too so that helped to be sure I got out there. It felt so good to run in just shorts and a t-shirt and be warm. Some days it was a little warmer than I would have liked and certainly warmer than I am used to. Every day started off in the mid 70’s and got to mid 80’s. I ran every day while down there at least 1 hour and one of the days I ran 14 miles or about 2 hours. About .5 miles from the condo where we stayed was the entrance to Henderson Beach State Park. There was a loop of about 3 miles in length from one end of the park by the beach to the other end in the campground that was nice and quiet for running. The section along the beach gave good views and a stiff ocean breeze to keep things cooler. There also was water and bathrooms available throughout the park. There were no hills to be found anywhere nearby. The week of 4/18 which included 3 days running in Florida I logged 57 miles. Returning home to freezing temperatures was quite a shock. I got right back into the usual routine of running on my lunch break on week days. Saturday was very windy and I needed to spend most of the day at a track meet, but I did manage to sneak in 6.5 miles in the morning. Knowing I needed to get some trail miles in I contacted my friend Dana. He was meeting up with another friend Chris to run on the John Muir trails early on Sunday. This was perfect. I met up with Dana about 5:15 and we drove to meet Chris together. Chris was going to run 3 loops of the blue loop or about 28 miles. Dana and I felt a little less ambitious and only wanted to get about 20 miles in. It was a very nice run. I had met Chris briefly before, but had not run with him. I look forward to doing it again. It was great to chat with both those guys on such a nice morning for running. It sure made the time pass by quickly. Before I knew it we were done with the two loops. Dana and I then just ran an out and back of 1 mile to complete a full 20 for the day in about 3:10 and change. We ran a little slow for most of the miles, but that is OK for two weeks before the race. So my miles for last week were 58. I ended up finishing April with 220 miles giving me 4 in a row over 200. Sometime this week I will pass 1000 miles for the year. After taking 5/2 off my miles through 5/3:
WTD 5
MTD 25
YTD 972
ODO 28243
Hunting:
The day after returning home from vacation the dogs were spending an extended period of time outside without returning to the house. It didn’t take long to see what they were up to. There was a dead deer, a young buck that was laying dead in the back yard. Apparently this deer had been hit by a car and wondered into my back yard to die. After making sure the dogs were inside I just dragged the carcass way into the back and am now hoping the coyote’s and crows eat it up before my dogs find it again. I noticed this video of the largest antlered deer ever recorded. What a freak. If you watch close there is so much antler it struggles at times to keep its head up.
Gardening:
It’s getting to that busy time of year again. Good thing it has stayed a little cool as it has held things back a bit. I finally did order all my seeds, onions and potato sets. Now I need to till the garden so I can begin to get some of the early things planted. I’ve spent some time applying the 10 or so yards of wood chips/mulch I picked up. Just a little bit left before I’m done for now. I noticed that the asparagus is now up a couple inches so it won’t be long until it gets to the dinner table. Last weekend my friend Keith came over with another roll of PEX. We ended up extending the waterline we put in a couple weeks ago all the way back another 100 feet to my back garden where I grow pumpkins, corn, and have my food plot. I now have a working faucet near my main garden and way in the back. This is really going to end up saving me lots of time over the coming years.
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