Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Big wind roared through the valley late last night, and were still going pretty well this morning. During the day several brief showers passed through the area, and each shower seemed to herald a reinvigoration of the wind.

I went up to run at midday, and just a few minutes into warming up, I looked behind me and saw a wall of dark clouds sweeping in to cool things down, and decided I better conclude the warming up with a sprint to the truck. I just barely beat the arriving rain, which quickly passed over to horizontal pea sized hail. Or maybe it was large grapple! I like the idea it was grapple better, so we will call it the first grapple of the season--so fine! Altogether it was nearly the first significant precipitation since the O' Festival. Definitely Fall.

The moisture made the landscape so much quieter to run through. Nothing was dry and scratchy; everything was damp and refreshed instead.

Ran an O' course at Granite Planite, taking the course in reverse and then running it forwards, back-to-back.