Fall Back 5mi Trail Race
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Sometimes a good morning looks like this:
Get up feeling like you actually got enough sleep for once.
Hop in the car and drive to Saratoga Spa State Park on a sunny but chilly November morning.
Get everything ready and head to the start line on the north end of the quad.
Run 5 miles of some of my favorite trails in the area. Start slow but pick up the pace as you warm up - plus, the Fall Back course gets more runnable (for me a least) after the first mile or two.
Finish almost 6 minutes faster than expected, feeling like all things considered (knees, insufficient training, coming off of 10 miles yesterday...) you ran pretty well.
Hop back in the car and drive home on a sunny November morning.
(OK, it would have been nice to have a bit of a delay before the end there - with maybe some time to slowly run a couple more miles and have some post-race chow while sitting outside in a patch of sunshine - but today I had to be back to be at work by 1 PM, less than 2 hours after I finished the race. And regardless, it was a good morning.)
2019 Event Totals
Run 234.8 mi, 62 hr 18 minBike 0 mi, 0 hr 0 min
Snowshoe 16.3 mi, 5 hr 57 min
Kayak 0 mi, 0 hr 0 min
states visited: CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT
