morning constitutional
i got myself out the door this morning and headed down comanche to the glacial drumlin trail. my legs felt good after taking the day off from running on sunday as i opted for church, brunch, mulching and lawn cutting instead. about 2.5 miles into my run, i noticed a deer in the meadow to the north of the trail. it saw me before i saw it and just stood there watching me. i kept heading west and made the turnaround after 3.5 miles and a little less than 29 minutes elapsed.
after a mile of doubling back on the route, a deer walked across the trail about 200 meters ahead of me. then a second deer began walking across the trail and just stopped to watch me running toward it. i’m sure that deer #1 found his buddy to show him this silly human running on only two legs. considering i was wearing a bright orange shirt, i was surprised at the bravado displayed by deer #2 just staring me down.
as i approached, deer #2 moved into the brush along the trail. as i passed, the two deer stood there watching as i went by. my guess is that deer #2 told deer #1 something like, "yep, that is one silly human" or something like that.
the remaining bit of effort was relatively uneventful and i rolled into my subdivision with 7 miles covered in about 56 minutes.
this saturday evening i’ll be rolling through the kettle moraine rails helping out a woman running 100 miles. at the moment, the forecast looks warm and potentially wet…both of which i’m not a big fan of. regardless, most of the running that i’ll be doing will be at dusk or through the night so i should be able to adjust.
in terms of goals for the remainder of 2008, i’m taking aim at running a BOSTON qualifier at the Lakefront Marathon then running the Chicago 50K twenty five days later. getting old has it’s benefits as my qualifying time is now 3:15 which should be attainable with a reasonable amount of training and smart pacing. for the 50K, i would love to get under 4 hours and finish in the top ten. now all i have to do is put in the miles.