Monday: 0
Tuesday: 5
Grapevine, TX. 86 degrees and sunny in the late afternoon. Welcome to Texas.
Wednesday: 24!
AM: 8 miles in Horseshoe Trails Park. The local roads are mostly cement, so I wasn't into an out and back, but wanted to get to this trail system. The solution: Uber! This was my foray to Uber. I'm sure you've all used Uber, and my 18-year old raves about it, but I'm not exactly an early adopter (how many others out there are driving a 12-year old car with manual transmission?). It was really cool, efficient, and cheap! You follow the driver's approach on their app, electronic notification when 1-minute away, you know and pay the price in advance, and it was only $5.95!
PM: 16 miles on the Northshore Trail (actually 11 miles on the twisty trail, followed by 5 not-so-fun miles on busy cement roads)
Thursday: 5
Recovery on local roads and trails in Katie's Woods.
Friday: 7
Final run in Texas. 3 miles of roads ran fairly hard, followed by trails at Katie's Woods. Easily took a CR on a 1.7 mile road segment. Ran it in 5:58 pace to hopefully hold it a bit longer, as who knows if and when I'll ever return to Grapevine, Texas.
Saturday: 10
After arriving home from Texas at 2am after an aborted landing at Green Airport and diversion to Logan Airport, I was just happy to be on solid ground and looking for a morning run. While I had initially contemplated running 7 Sisters, between insufficient training and arriving home so late, that just would not have worked out.
Instead, met up with Jonathan Short for a pre-arranged trail running from Roaring Brook in Arcadia. I had never been here and really enjoyed the single-track he led me on, in spite of the drizzly weather that had turned into a pretty steady rain by the time we finished.
Sunday: 9
Solo Chariho mixer. 3 miles roads (mainly Switch Road), before a couple of miles in Carolina North (out Laurel, back Pony Express), and finished up in Carolina South (some twisty yellow-blazed trail through young white pines, then NST). Ran the last mile in a fast 6:23. I think that's a good thing to run final miles hard when you're tired.
Weekly mileage: 61
Weekly synopsis: Interesting and fun diversion to run in Texas! Super happy with the mileage.
Tuesday: 5
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| Was so happy that my two airline companions were Absent and Invisible. They were nice guys that were really quiet the whole flight and didn't even mind that I put my feet up on them. |
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| Cool airline entertainment system. Punched in some Stones, Aerosmith, even The Knack. Remember The Knack? |
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| Arid and hot. Got sunburned. |
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| Inside the atrium of my hotel, where I ate dinner Tuesday. Yeah, it all looks nice and clean, but my gripe is it's all fake, kind of like Disney. I guess you go to Disney expecting fake, but when I'm in wild Texas, set me out on the real trails in the real outdoors and I'm happy. |
Wednesday: 24!
AM: 8 miles in Horseshoe Trails Park. The local roads are mostly cement, so I wasn't into an out and back, but wanted to get to this trail system. The solution: Uber! This was my foray to Uber. I'm sure you've all used Uber, and my 18-year old raves about it, but I'm not exactly an early adopter (how many others out there are driving a 12-year old car with manual transmission?). It was really cool, efficient, and cheap! You follow the driver's approach on their app, electronic notification when 1-minute away, you know and pay the price in advance, and it was only $5.95!
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| Very fun mountain bike trails through the woods. |
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| 11 miles of single-track, much right along Lake Grapevine. |
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| The red clay soil in Texas is something unique that we don't have in New England. |
Thursday: 5
Recovery on local roads and trails in Katie's Woods.
Friday: 7
Final run in Texas. 3 miles of roads ran fairly hard, followed by trails at Katie's Woods. Easily took a CR on a 1.7 mile road segment. Ran it in 5:58 pace to hopefully hold it a bit longer, as who knows if and when I'll ever return to Grapevine, Texas.
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| Cool waterfowl early in the morning |
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| Very fun running along the lake in my final Texas run |
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| At the airport for the trip home. My kind of place to eat. Yeah, not. |
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| While not everyone's cup of my tea, this is more my pace: Finishing up my trip report, while enjoying sushi and a glass of wine. |
Saturday: 10
After arriving home from Texas at 2am after an aborted landing at Green Airport and diversion to Logan Airport, I was just happy to be on solid ground and looking for a morning run. While I had initially contemplated running 7 Sisters, between insufficient training and arriving home so late, that just would not have worked out.
Instead, met up with Jonathan Short for a pre-arranged trail running from Roaring Brook in Arcadia. I had never been here and really enjoyed the single-track he led me on, in spite of the drizzly weather that had turned into a pretty steady rain by the time we finished.
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| The aptly name Roaring Brook was the start of our run. Really fun trails. |
Sunday: 9
Solo Chariho mixer. 3 miles roads (mainly Switch Road), before a couple of miles in Carolina North (out Laurel, back Pony Express), and finished up in Carolina South (some twisty yellow-blazed trail through young white pines, then NST). Ran the last mile in a fast 6:23. I think that's a good thing to run final miles hard when you're tired.
Weekly mileage: 61
Weekly synopsis: Interesting and fun diversion to run in Texas! Super happy with the mileage.
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| 61 miles! Psyched. |
Nice week! I've never used Uber, excellent use of the service, I'll have to remember that trick!
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