the Way of the Turtle

SPRING IS HERE!
10.6 Mile Run in the Heldeberg foothills
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Let's hope it sticks around... yesterday was cool but gorgeously sunny, too bad I spent much of the day driving back from Rochester. Today was even warmer, so this afternoon I headed over to Five Rivers to do some sort of variation of my run from two weekends ago.

What a great day for a run... maybe it was the novelty of running in shirtsleeves and shorts, but the running was good today. Maybe too good... instead of being smart and doing a short, easy run, I headed up into the hills and actually extended the route of my previous run a bit. Probably not the smartest thing to do three days before Eastern States, but it was just too nice a day.

At least, right until the last 15 minutes or so, when the cold front finally pushed its way in and it rained for a few minutes. Fortunately, I had a light fleece vest in my waistpack, so I stayed fairly warm.

There was something very odd about running in warm weather gear (and working up a good sweat doing it) while looking across fields of foot-deep snow. But the rain over the next two days will probably do a lot of get rid of that... maybe before too much longer I can actually hit the trails again. Without snowshoes!

JMH