TrailHonky

With Grasslands just a week away, I needed to get in a good long run so I took Deborah up on her offer to meet at 6am and run both the easy and hard portions at Northshore. We started in the dark, right on time, and headed toward Rockledge Park. It was quite a bit colder than I expected and I could have used my fleece for the first hour. But by the time we made the turn around, we no longer needed our lights and the sun was making its appearance.

On the way to Rockledge, it seemed like it was taking us longer than normal. There was a good reason for this; there is a lot of new trail. On our way back, we didn’t figure out how to stay on the old trail but wound up on the new one again. We’d later meet Bill near Murrell Park and would find out that we missed him when we took the new trail and he took the old one. We wondered how he managed to sneak around us!

We headed to the harder section and I was feeling pretty good. My energy level was decent even with little rest. I was getting tired of the taste of Succeed so I opted to refill with only water. Bad decision. With about 1.5 miles left, I started getting light headed and dizzy. Deborah suggested I take her up on her offer of trail mix. I finished the bag while we continued on and realized I was very low on calories. I didn’t eat breakfast and we’d been going for 5 hours solid. No wonder I was constantly thinking about food!

Given that it was my first run since Tyler, I was suprised to make it to the end and not feel terrible. Hopefully this will pay off at Grasslands next week.