back at it
i traded my running shoes for a tool belt over the memorial day weekend and re-tiled our upstairs bathroom floor. i still have to grout the new tile, but the project is looking much better than our old flooring. perhaps when it’s done i’ll post some before & after photos. it’s amazing how sore i was from the effort. i can run for hours with limited lingering effects but was awful sore – especially my lower back – from the demolition, lifting and bending.
regardless, i rolled out of bed this morning and put in an easy 7 miles. it was much cooler this morning than it had been over the weekend and i actually wore long pants and a two layers on top.
last week i was perusing my web site metrics and noticed traffic coming from left-right-repeat.blogspot.com. i surfed over to the site and searched for my name which turned out to be a blog posting entitled I’m "that guy!" that cited my blog posting about the Dick Lytie Spring Classic Half Marathon i ran back in March. we talked a bit over email and i wished him well at the madison 26.2. checking back on his blog today, he ended up running his first BOSTON qualifier. pretty neat who you can "virtually" run into on the internet, eh?
speaking of running into people, my buddy craig wanted to help out a friend of his who’s prepping for an ultra later this summer and asked if i still wanted to pace him at the kettle 100M. craig knows the trails as he finished the KM100M last year as well as a handful of Ice Age 50M finishes. i said it was cool that he switched pacers as there was little that i could do other than keep him company.
oddly enough, at the same time there was an email sitting in my inbox from Roy pIrRUNg who had emailed the "Trail People" list asking if anyone would be interested in pacing a woman from out of town. i figured since i knew the trails – at least during daylight hours – that this would be a good opportunity to help someone out and get some experience running through the night.
if you get the chance you can read up on Carilyn’s blog at runreadwrite.blogspot.com. her husband will be crewing for her and i’ve let them know that food/gas is virtually non-existent out in the kettle…especially at night. my dad crewed for me back in 2004 at the Ice Age Trail 50M and was less than thrilled with the zero attention i had paid to that little nugget of information.