Where am I?

On Monday I thought I would go for a trail run. Why? I don't know. I was tired and hurting a bit from the Saturday morning run and a nice flat run along the creek would have been pretty good for the legs. Instead, I drive myself out to APEX and head on up. The nice thing about the run is that I took it easy and ran a bit under 29min up the Enchanted Forest, which I know is slow, but it was easy. Since it was easy, I decided to go against my better judgement and head on up to Lookout Mountain. I kept looking at maps and saying, well it will only be 9 miles or so. Once I got to the top of Lookout Mountain, I decided to go down to Chimney Gulch trail instead of turning around. Now, this is where the rationalizing should have ended, and turning around should have started. Nope! Down to the bottom of Lookout and now I am practically in Golden. I did not figure it being a pretty long way (how long, I do not know) back to APEX trail. My knee was completely locked up now from the downhill and my left achilles was killing me. I decided to B-Line it toward APEX, so I cut across the bottom of Lookout, through some back yards, across a couple gullies, onto a path, and voila, there was APEX and my beloved car! I think I was out 1:55, but only ran 1:25-1:30 of it. That is not a fun experience. I never seem to learn from them though.

The rest of the week has been a bit of rest and recovery. The knee was pretty inflamed and there is something up with my calf/achilles that I cannot find. I think that I will have to call up Andrea and see if she can find it. I am way over due for a massage anyway. I feel much better today and the kneee is finally coming back to normal. I was also due for a true easy week. So, I will keep myself from going too long this weekend, and get ready to race next weekend! I will get in a short tempo early in the week and that will do the trick. I have run nothing near 4:50 pace, but I think that is the goal for the day. I would not be disappointed at 5:00, but that is probably not where I will take it out. Until then, resting and getting the legs ready for a season that looks to be rather long...

*Oh yeah. I am thinking about entering in the Nine Trails race in Santa Barbara. 35miles, 10,500' gain. Right up my alley:)