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Wednesday Apr 25, 2018 #
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Bright and sunny today, and back to spring. It was a nearly perfect spring day.
I rode some after work, and then headed out to Remarkable Flats to hang out streamers for future training. You can only train in the present though, and I aimed to run at close to race pace in between streamer locations, concentrating on running as efficiently as possible.
Things started out well, but ended disastrously. Right as I got going good towards the first control, a moose crashed out of some aspen and ran off at a sharp angle from my direction. Very cool, in especially right there because moose sightings at Remarkable Flats are rare. So far so good, and nothing else of note happened as I got the streamers all places. But then...oh, no...right after the last streamer I headed downhill towards a stream, when it happened: I scared up another moose, completing the incredibly dreaded moose bracket, which is defined as seeing a moose at both the beginning and end of a run. It's way worse than walking under a ladder or having a black cat cross a road in front of you or waking up and finding out the new president elect is Trump.
When I got home I quickly threw a few pounds of salt over my shoulder, rubbed raw garlic all over my chest, walked around my house three times making the sign of the cross, and then remembered I was supposed to be on a call to talk about some details pertaining to the Rocky Mountain O' Festival, and as I rushed to get on the call, I completely forgot about incredibly dreaded moose bracket.
The best part of running out at Remarkable Flats today was all the blooming Pasque flowers. A neat thing about Pasque flowers is how they are cloaked in fur, which helps keep them warm, just like puppy fir keeps puppies warm.
I rode some after work, and then headed out to Remarkable Flats to hang out streamers for future training. You can only train in the present though, and I aimed to run at close to race pace in between streamer locations, concentrating on running as efficiently as possible.
Things started out well, but ended disastrously. Right as I got going good towards the first control, a moose crashed out of some aspen and ran off at a sharp angle from my direction. Very cool, in especially right there because moose sightings at Remarkable Flats are rare. So far so good, and nothing else of note happened as I got the streamers all places. But then...oh, no...right after the last streamer I headed downhill towards a stream, when it happened: I scared up another moose, completing the incredibly dreaded moose bracket, which is defined as seeing a moose at both the beginning and end of a run. It's way worse than walking under a ladder or having a black cat cross a road in front of you or waking up and finding out the new president elect is Trump.
When I got home I quickly threw a few pounds of salt over my shoulder, rubbed raw garlic all over my chest, walked around my house three times making the sign of the cross, and then remembered I was supposed to be on a call to talk about some details pertaining to the Rocky Mountain O' Festival, and as I rushed to get on the call, I completely forgot about incredibly dreaded moose bracket.
The best part of running out at Remarkable Flats today was all the blooming Pasque flowers. A neat thing about Pasque flowers is how they are cloaked in fur, which helps keep them warm, just like puppy fir keeps puppies warm.