Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Mystery Blazes loop. A variation where I followed the blazed trail along the Mulpus quite a bit further than usual, and jumped the brook at a gravel bar. Through serendipity, that turned out to be exactly at the end of the Mystery Blazes on the other side. This meant that I was able to do this loop on 100% trails, although about half of it is on trails that are so incredibly faint that not even Tonto would notice if crossing them, and even knowing where they go, it takes considerable concentration to follow them. In other words, it might as well be off-trail terrain running.

Warm evening, very nice to be out. I had been coughing quite a bit during the day, and was worried that I'd be coughing while running, but it wasn't bad at all. Once I stopped, though, I had such a coughing fit that I had to sit down on the stone wall for a few minutes. Distance is a pretty wild guess.

Hudson Highlander XV. The remnants of the cold didn't hurt me quite as much as I feared they might, though I'm sure my aerobic capacity was diminished, and I probably hadn't eaten as much as I might have if I were healthy. There were a few times (on the first leg, and then late in the course) where my brain was really pretty foggy, the worst of these being on #29, where I got probably to the edge of the circle before spacing out, and losing enough time that four people got past me. No blisters, though, and it looks like all of my toenails are fine, which is a welcome change from prior years.