Geo-Runner

Well I finally have pushed my weekly training distances back up into the 50 mile range.  I am quite happy with my training and I hope to be nearer to 80-100 miles a week by August.  I am going to do several competitive trail runs this summer including 3 races of the Frontrunners Gutbuster series.  I am also going to do a marathon.  I am deciding between the Park City in August on Oakley's birthday or the Victoria in October.  I have to make a decision soon which one I am going to do.  October would definately get me a better time since I will have more time to train.  I would like to run something in Utah while we are down there though.

Tonight I cranked out a Mount Doug gutbuster trail run.  It was dusk when I left and a balmy Victoria 17 degrees (Celsius).  My new shoes felt great and I pushed pretty hard.  Early on my twilight trek I became aware of a shadow in the Douglas Firs bounding along side of me.  The small white tail doe was on my same trajectory and seemed to say not only am I faster but I don't need trails either (it proves that no matter how hard you train there is always someone or something that can run further, faster, and in hairyer terrain).  Not 10 minutes later I spooked two lazy does rounding up large mouthfuls of lush spring rain fed grass.  The deer hardly raised their heads as I tore past.  I began to push up the backside of Doug (north) when a small yearling started at my poky approach.  That was 4 deer in less than 20 minutes of running.  The only wildlife observed over the next half hour were the sedentary bipedal mammals who drove to the summit of Doug to observe the transformatio

I recieved my new shoes in the mail yesterday from Running Warehouse.  I busted them in this morning on a flat  20 km mixed surface run.  They felt awesome.  It is amazing to crank out 12 miles in a new pair of shoes and experience absolutely zero problems with blisters, hotspots, or rubbing of any sort.  I had no issues with chin splints and knees which I was struggling with as a result of my last pairs midsole breaking down.  I still need to take them on a Mount Doug Gutbuster training run and really push their limits to see how they handle the nasty terrain.  So far so good, and I am thinking they are the shoe for me.  They don't quite wrap my ankle as well as my asics, and so my only concern is ankle support from the upper.  They are a very stable shoe and most likely will lessen the ammount of ankle rolls anyway.  I will really push them  on the slopes ofDoug next run to see how they handle the slick rocks, mud, steep desents, tricky side slopes, and loose gravel.  I can't