Run - Trail long (Birch Mountain) 3:11:00 [3] 15.86 mi (12:03 / mi)
rhr:48 slept:4.0 weight:75.7kg (sick) shoes: Mindbender
Tight chest Thursday night obviously the onset of a summer cold, now in full swing. Sore throat, lots of mucous and other pleasantness, not much sleep. This mornings long run probably won't be pretty....
{edit} Started out feeling pretty good, but really working hard by around 30 minutes, as we approached the hour mark, I seriously considered letting John & Kristina go on and heading back to Line St. But John overran the cutoff trail by the tower and I called them back and headed across Birch Mountain Rd into Gay City.
Once across the road actually felt quite a bit better, not great mind you, but well enough to keep shuffling forward. Might be fewer steep hills on that side. FDF's really fierce on that side of the road, wound about on the ribbon trail down to Blackledge, then back towards Birch Mountain, up to the summit of Case then back down to Line St.
A lot farther/longer than I thought I'd be able to go, a real struggle to get through it even at a very slow pace, but very glad I did.
Off to summer camp with Jackson tomorrow (I'm only going through Thursday), not sure how much running I'll get in, but going to try. Then probably headed out for an overnight backpack with Hayden on Friday-Saturday (his first), then back to camp to fetch Jackson on Sunday.