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Friday Sep 22, 2017 #
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Cheech (Marin) is in town today. I think he came to run at Diamond Bay. He might not realize Labor Daze is already come and gone--he is Cheech, after all.
Right now he is talking on the radio and I am drinking coffee--so about the right things are happening in the right places.
Right now he is talking on the radio and I am drinking coffee--so about the right things are happening in the right places.
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O' pass at Remarkable Flats, 9.3 kms, 30 controls. Expected some amount of cold rain and had along clothes appropriate for that; happily it was just gray clouds on scene and it looked like it would be okay in just a long sleeved t-shirt, which worked out fine. In the end, only a few drops fell on me here and there while I was running--much better than the wet bike ride earlier.
Things were going well for the first 21 controls and I was running at race pace. Right after #21, however, I had to make a decision: I came across a nice 4 point mule deer shed. Stash it somewhere and come back for it later, or take it with me and finish the workout while definitely trying to avoid and falls? It was such a nice shed, and I didn't have thaaaaat much more to go distance wise, plus part of what was left consisted of a loop, so I could drop off the shed at the beginning of the loop and pick it back up as I was exiting...I took it with me and kept a laser focus on running efficiently and upright until I was safely at the end.
Nice as the shed was, the best part really was not having the heavens open up with heavy rain. Once started, I would have finished, but it would have been a whole lot less fun.
Lots of cows.
Things were going well for the first 21 controls and I was running at race pace. Right after #21, however, I had to make a decision: I came across a nice 4 point mule deer shed. Stash it somewhere and come back for it later, or take it with me and finish the workout while definitely trying to avoid and falls? It was such a nice shed, and I didn't have thaaaaat much more to go distance wise, plus part of what was left consisted of a loop, so I could drop off the shed at the beginning of the loop and pick it back up as I was exiting...I took it with me and kept a laser focus on running efficiently and upright until I was safely at the end.
Nice as the shed was, the best part really was not having the heavens open up with heavy rain. Once started, I would have finished, but it would have been a whole lot less fun.
Lots of cows.