Sunday, 9/18/11: 7 miles, 1:05:36, 9:20 pace, 60F, sunny, calm, no stops, really mild hip pain after 5 miles
Garmin Connect Activity for Summit County Bike-Hike Trail plus lots of off road trail
Everyone was still asleep when I headed out at 10AM for the nearby Barlow Rd trailhead of the Summit County Bike-Hike Trail in OH. I met up by chance with a guy named Joey who showed some sweet and pretty trails off the pavement. I learned that he is a sort of running pied piper, head of Phillips Phylers and has run in 15 Bostons. It was great to run with him, he showed some things I would never seen. The level bike-hike trail would have been OK but really, really boring and a lot harder on my hips. A nice happenstance on a really sunny morning!
A long day in Ohio before we headed back at 6PM ... Christine wanted to upload wedding pictures, we saw her father, her older brother and ate supper at a Subway in Ravenna. We pulled into our parking lot at 11:45AM, bushed.
I later learned that the Buffalo Bills won their home opener versus Oakland Raiders in thrilling fashion 38-35 ... scoring 5 consecutive TDs in the 2nd half with the winner at 14 seconds to go! Still, they had to sweat it out at the end when a simulaneous reception in the Oakland endzone was ruled a touchback instead of a touchdown. Later, I saw replays that showed it was clearly an interception.
Monday, 9/19/11: Rest day.
A really hectic day at work after taking Friday off! There was lots of tedious work getting more printers deployed. It's harder than just unboxing the printer.
Tuesday, 9/20/11: A "No-Bo" walk with Christine.
Garmin Connect Activity for Genesee Valley Park - "No-Bo" walk
Christine and I were 10 minutes late getting down to Genesee Valley Park and found that everyone had left already. So Christine convinced me to head out for a "No-Bo" walk with her. She was hurting a bit with shin splints for most of the walk but she continued onward.
Wednesday, 9/21/11: 3.4 miles, 36:06, 10:31 pace, 76F, cloudy, calm, not humid in the woods, some walks up hills, a bit of pain.
Christine was feeling very sad, so I headed out the final Fleet Feet Dirt Cheap of 2011 solo. The usual crowd of trail runners were gathered at McGregor's. I started out kind of hard down the dirt road. A left hand turn after 1/4 miles put us on single track quickly. I kept up until I came upon a steep, slippery downhill ... I slipped and fell on my butt and right side. I collected myself and ran on. I could feel that I hurt one of my right ribs. I slowed a bit but I didn't feel any sharp pain when I ran ... so I continued onward. Some of the turns were pretty quick and slippery but I didn't fall again. I took a look at my right arm when I got done ... it was covered in mud. I was sure that other parts of me were mud covered also, ;-).
I did OK ... even after falling, 50th out of 206, link here and 4th out of 17 in my M50-54 age group. I was 3rd out of 20 in my M50-54 age group in the series, link here. I didn't stay long at the post race party. My right side was hurting. I didn't break anything, just bruised and battered. It kind of hurt all night when I moved.
Thursday, 9/22/11: Rest day.
A busy day at work ... even though I hurt when I moved. Christine fixed a nice supper of spare ribs, rice and broccoli. Mmmm!
Friday, 9/23/11: Another rest day.
An even busier day at work ... I deployed another 6 printers before noon. I should have taken Christine out for a "No-Bo" and I should have done a Happy Hour run down at Fleet Feet but I was beyond tired. We watched our latest DVD from NetFlix, Tron: Legacy. It was a bit scratched so Christine's DVD player played it with frequent flashes of blue screen. My DVD player called it a Bad Disc. We put up with it for a while before I tried it in my laptop where it played just fine.
Saturday, 9/24/11: Yet another rest day.
Christine and I woke up around 6:40AM for her "No-Bo" workout out at Durand Eastman beach. She didn't want to do go ... I heard "I am not a runner" before she left. I really wanted to go but my ribs still hurt plus I needed more sleep. She was so proud of herself when she came back. She had a great workout with several bursts of running!
Later we managed to get out for Groupon aided late lunch / early supper at McGraw's Irish Pub in East Rochester. The Guiness and Sherpard's Pie were excellent! Afterward, we watched the original True Grit with John Wayne and Glen Campbell. A bit later, we watched the two most recent episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
