Training Log Archive: Soupbone

Night Trail run. This is another event out on by my friend from Thrillogy series. Not a race, even though you can treat it like one and go hard. It was about 2.5 mile loop. You could do 1-4 loops. I wanted a bit more but settled st 2 loops. Had three guys pass me and by the end I passed them up and finished strong not letting any of them pass me back to my finish. No awards even though they keep track of your finish.
After I dipped in the dark in Silver Lake, and then the food buffet with craft beer was awesome. This was a blast and wish that that his monthly running series does well. There were like 70 participants. He even has plans on opening a shoe store and whatever he sells. Kinda crazy but no other speciality shoe store in town. He was selling Scarpa brand and I even bought a pair of trail shoes for $75 last night.

Went to the Silver Lake Mt bike trails that I have run on but never biked.
Very rusty in my Mt bike skills and they were challenging. Mostly dirt but lots of roots and small amounts of rock areas. Not very confident in my skills and of course not wanting to get hurt. Probably need to do this more if want to get better.

Run at Parkside. It's been a while and the openness of Parkside would help with the bugs out. Slow but steady, needed a run.

Ride with Mary to score some sweet corn down the road 5.5 miles away.

Tired from working on projects so it was an easy ride.

Perfect temps for a long ride. Ended up in cute East Troy Wi. Excellent soup at the coffee shop.
My buddy kept asking me if I remember riding any of these roads and specifically about the big hill. He hit 41 mph and I was more cautious and only hit 35. But I remember the going up that hill because that town was an aide station on a previous ride I did many years ago.
The rest of the ride has lots of smaller hills that resembled an interval workout, up up fast downs.
My butt is tired

Took Stella down the 4 mile route. She really runs well on the roads with me.
She is hooked to my waist belt so my arms are free to swing. She doesn't pull, even though I would go faster if she did.

My friends Wednesday night trail run. He sets a course at Pets this week and I did his first loop and then my own combo the 2nd time around. He did use the super hills of the park which are steep and rooted.
Nice night, temp wise and I continued the tradition of bringing a small cooler full of beer to share.