Tuesday, December 16, 2008

18 to Rio Verde and Back

Distance 18
Time: 46 hours (Reese played with my watch when I got home)

The run was slow, but good. I'm in love with Hammer Nutrition. I'm like the guy in "Green Eggs and Ham" after he tries them:

And I will drink it on a boat and I will drink it with a goat,
and I will drink it while I run and I will drink it just for fun,
and I will drink it in the dark and I will drink in in a park,
and I will drink it here and there, I will drink it anywhere.

But really, their stuff helped me to have a noticeably better outing. There's a big difference in a slow 18 where you are not firing on all cylinders vs. having the GI tract, muscles, and mind all happy when you finish. I thought about tacking on some more miles at the end, but then I decided to stick with the plan. So it's 20 next weekend with Brice.

Speaking of Brice, he did the Scottsdale Half Marathon last weekend and was very, very, very close to breaking 2 hours in the race. I think he did 2:00:57. It's amazing how these races seem to come down to a few seconds. Crazy. Great race Brice!

Observations from the run:

- Running in the desert with nothing around you is really cool (actually, it was down right cold and I should have had my gloves with me, but that's another story). The smells of the desert, the cacti, the guns being fired on the Indian reservation. It's all pretty cool, well the guns weren't cool, but the rest of it was.

- While there are some friendly people who ride bikes, most of them are not on the road between Fountain Hills and Rio Verde. Guys, would it kill you to say "good morning" or to at least not make it so obvious that you hate cars, runners, fuzzy bunnies, and Santa Claus. Get over yourself.

Now get back to work...

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