Training Log Archive: Swampfox

O' run at Remarkable Flats; re-ran a middle distance style course that I had designed and run last year, and of which I remembered nothing today. A fair amount of wind was blowing most of the day, including while I was running, but not so that it made the running tricky. The angle of the sun in the late afternoon, on the other hand....it helps to be running in any direction other than due west. It helps a lot. Seasonally warm out today with nearly full sun, but with the wind the running conditions felt quite pleasant and not warm at all.

However, remarkable as all that was, what was really remarkable was the note that PG posted today to Friday's entry. And what was remarkable about that was the coincidence of having a dream *last night* where for the first time ever I had a dream fragment set in Sunderland, and also for the first time ever the appearance of pg in one of my dreams; that is plain freaky.

The dream fragment itself was unremarkably weird as these things all tend to be: I was standing on some kind of bluff or embankment with a long trail paralleling at the base below, near the river, and a 100 miler trail race was in progress. Spectators were pointing runners and cheering, and one of the runners was PG.

Entirely separately, a week or so ago I had another dream which stands out: it was a dream of an O' race where everything was going as it should. In every other of my hundreds or even thousands of O' dreams over the years, they were all nightmares and not dreams, where everything was going wrong.

Enough of boring dream scribblings!

C • What dreams may come 11

O' run at Diamond Bay.

C • I detect a disquieting tren... 2

O' run at Pitcher Hill. Nice outing of "bustin' sage". Managed to elude several storm cells as they were closing in from different directions.

O' running at Twin Boulders. Intense fog banks were sweeping up from the south along the Laramie Range, but fortunately did not quite overwhelm the area I was running through until just as I was finishing. Sometimes timing is everything.

Found a small mule deer shed while I was running, and brought it along for the rest of the ride.

Yesterday I stumbled twice and nearly fell early in the training course I ran. I didn't mention it, figuring it would make the national news and that therefore I didn't need to. However, so far, I haven't seen a hint of it anywhere in the news, not even on Tweezer. Well, Twitter, whatever.

Also, at one point I knelt to the ground. That also didn't seem to attract any national attention, possibly because I was not an NFL player kneeling during the National Anthem at the start of a game. And, also possibly because I was not kneeling to make a statement, but only in order to make an adjustment to a shoelace.

Today, I went for an easy run up at Happy Jack, and I saw some clouds. I am almost positive this isn't going to hit the news wires either, so you will have to read about it here, as you have just done.

I can hardly wait to see what I do tomorrow!