It was a full weekend of remembering life in college at this reunion. Had no idea where I would sleep when I left on Friday morning and crashed on the floor of a house rented by a few teammates from a few years before my time. This weekend had a variance in ages of participants like I have not seen before. I had a conversation with the team captain from the 57' NCAA Champion team (the only National Championship in ND XC history as crazy as that seems) at the tailgate in the afternoon. I also re-lived wearing shorts in frigid weather during XC season as I never put on pants until the end of XC season back in the day... The weather was cold and rainy most of the day, but it was actually a beautiful fall morning during our run.
We left from the rental course down by the river and ran up to campus. Oddly enough this was really my only time on campus this weekend that wasn't just at the athletic facilities (which I barely recognize due to the changes in the last 20 years, much like the rest of campus). We ran up through the new athletic facilities and then down through North quad to the lakes.
Dave Dwortz's 13 year old son was leading the pace, so this was obviously a relatively easy day. As opposed to my slow easy day with Dan on Wednesday, my knee felt much better today and I forgot about it most of the run. When little Dwortz was wearing down and everyone was heading back to the house. Cowan and I broke off to go run the East Race and river. Cowan wasn't able to go much faster on a bad calf and the regular stops at the shitter and to stretch were regular, but it didn't matter running in the old stomping grounds on a beautiful fall morning. My knee did stiffen in the last mile or so, but I did make it through 8 miles.
We ended the run right where we started. The GPS didn't kick in for the first mile.
Strava:
http://www.strava.com/activities/203673870Garmin:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/606376894Avg Run Cadence: 164 spm
Max Run Cadence: 255 spm
Avg Vertical Oscillation: 8.7 cm
Avg Ground Contact Time: 255 ms
Avg Stride Length: 1.08 m