ok, so some people are not such huge fans of running on the street, for valid reasons like surface cushioning and, um, being wusses. others of us, me, for example, like running on streets because, well, we're superior or something. it's not for me to say.
so, saturday's long run will be a compromise - five on the trail, followed by five on the road. we'll run the trail miles first, which should get the joints loosened and lubricated to be better prepared for running on asphalt. plus, it's really tough to go from the street to the trail - the difference in efficiency becomes really obvious, and annoying, at the end of a run.
for anyone not ready to go 10 miles, you can run either half with us - if you want to just run the road portion, you need to be at our starting point at about 7:45, and wait for us to come around.
we're meeting at 7am at The Rock, near the water coolers under the Mopac bridge, right by the lovely Roberta Crenshaw Pedestrian Walkway. we'll run the Mopac-Congress loop, which is about 4.6-4.7 miles, then we'll come back across the walkway and onto Stratford. there'll be a short, pretty challengingly-hilly stretch, then we'll be running up throuh my old stomping grounds in Rollingwood, and right by the house i lived in as a teenager. if you're very (un)fortunate, i'll tell you stories of my childhood, which was, you know, typical. summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. in the spring we'd make meat helmets. but i digress (and plagiarize).
here's a map
i'll have water out at about mile two of the road course, and mile four is right by the water fountains at Barton Springs.
oh, and from now on, there's a two-minute time limit on water breaks. we're dawdling too much. no more dawdling.
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My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. sometimes he woud accuse chesnuts of being lazy. my mother was a fifteen year old french prostitute named chloe with webbed feet.
When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really.
Does anyone have a status on the condition of the trail... other than flooded?
Like I care, I'm biking it. Oh, wait, I do care since there will be wet shoes involved.
i would expect some parts to be flooded, and we'll have to go around them.
i'd suggest people start using bodyglide or even vaseline on their feet - wet shoes and socks (if not from rain or puddles, then just from all the extra sweat) really accelerate the blistering process.
More puddles means more dirt on Paul's bike! - that is if I can borrow it tomorrow morning?
j la, checked w/paul and he is on board.
you know, it's hard to get much of a workout on the trail, plus it'll probably still be pretty wet, which will not only dirty the bikes, but is a bit harder on the trail.
unless you're just wanting to hang out, what you might want to do is laps in zilker park south of barton springs road. you could do some laps in there, either riding some sections hard, then recovering for a bit, or you could just try to ride at a fairly constant effort level.
and/or, you could ride a loop in Rollingwood - Ridgewood to Rollingwood Drive to Riley to Hatley. it's about a 2.5 mile loop.
i'm just sayin' - it's fun to have you out there, but biking along with runners may not be giving you the exercise you want. in an hour and a half, you guys want to be covering a good twenty miles.
or, you could set a goal of doing two laps of the lake in the time it takes the runners to do one - that's only averaging 11-12 miles an hour...
Are you done with being a preacher?
The goal is to hang out... deal with it.
AMEN Shelly!
so how was hanging out yesterday? err I mean the run??? route looked pretty cool. wish I'd been here.
just got back into A town yesterday evening. good to be home.
chuck d
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