Running Logs

A week before my Manitou Revenge race. I came back to my beloved twins ski slope hills by the Silvermine Lake at Bear Mountain. It was so amazing how green was the vegetation now compare to a few weeks ago.
This time, I was training on how to run or hike up the hills in moderate pace. I wanted to work it up yet not pushing my body too much, so that I would not be drained at the end of the running. Also I wanted to train on my downhill run, where I should be running lightly by using the gravity, and at the same time I would not trash my legs and energy.

At the end of the day, it was a good day. I managed to run /hike 6 sets, and I found my good pace that I could use on my race next week.

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A week after Manitou pre-race night run, I felt that I needed to train my night vision capability. So Chang and I planned to do a night run on Friday night after work. That day, it had been raining all day, and we had an all out thunderstorm the whole afternoon. It was a full package of pouring rain, lighting and thunder overlapping one after another. But by 7:30 pm it died down. So we decided that the night run was on.
We started to run by 10 pm. It was a pitch dark, but the sky was decorated by a full golden moon with starry stars around it. It was slippery, water on the trail or more like we were running on a stream, and we got fogs in some places. Also I heard an animal growling that sounded like a bear, and better yet a half mile away from the parking lot at the end of the run, there were a pair of eyes that was following us for a few minutes. But it was a good run and we were all come back alive.

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