Chamber Bay Run

So during today's run I attempted to take some pictures while on the move. Suffice to say it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth, but I got a couple good shots, which posted up on FaceBook:

Awesome out of focus pictures!
Chamber Bay Run stats

Other than completely blowing my quads out on the last big downhill, I'm quite pleased with today's run. Sure, my legs will ache all day tomorrow, but I made some impressive progress with my hill training. Eventually they may become merely grueling to do.

I did have a bit of a problem with the gel packs that I took along, in that several of them were old enough they had congealed and gotten quite the disgusting flavor. I ended up not being able to eat them, so I had to run the last 10 miles or so without fuel of any kind. I've got to learn to stop buying these things from discount piles and then leaving them on a shelf for a year before using them.

So work has been ramping up lately, as it is wont to do this time of year, but fortunately I've managed to maintain a solid 45 minute workout so far. Soon I'm gonna have to roll my start time back by an hour though, which will mean getting to the gym at 5:30, something I'm not really looking forward to yet.

Also, Saturday morning I managed to successfully register for the the Cascade Crest Ultramarathon, which was more of an achievement than you might think, as this event only have 146 slots, and they all filled up within about 10 hours of registration opening. I'm lucky I happened to be sitting right at a computer when reg went live. Now just the small matter of meeting the pre-race requirements (completing a 50 mile trail run), and I'm set. That however is a problem to worry about once tax season is over. For now, just trying to get through my running one day at a time.

And with that, time to get some extra sleep and let poor muscles recover.