Training Log Archive: Swampfox

It's bizarre to think that this early in the season--just 4 games in--Kansas's destiny is already out of its control, and in order to have any chance at finishing even within the uppermost register of the Bottom 10, it will require other teams to snatch some victories from the jaws of defeat. For instance, unless an 0-3 Nebraska veers off track and picks up several wins, there will be no possibility of getting past even them, and you gotta know that if a Nebraska is even more bottomly than you are, then it's not going to work out, no way, Jose'.

C • Kansas 2

Biked in the mid-day, and it was quite nice out--sunny with some scattered clouds, maybe some patches of smoke here and there off in the distance, light breeze, and all warmed back up from yesterday. I rolled into my driveway at around 3 pm, and literally just a few minutes later enough smoke rolled in to completely obscure the sun and the west side of the valley. Wyoming was playing Boise State here with the game to start at 5, and it sounded like it was touch and go as to whether the game would start on time because of air quality (I had no idea they even looked at such things.)

By game time, I was up in the hills and warming up for some O' at Diamond Bay. It was pretty smoky as I was driving in and warming up, and for the first 10 minutes or so of the course I was running. It gradually got better from there, and by the time I was done the air was mostly clear again. Even so, it felt like I was running in pre-dusk most of the time, and at dusk by the end. Though by the end, it was truly approaching dusk, so was okay enough. I didn't have a good view of sunset from what I was, but it must have been spectacular.