Sunday June 12, 2011.
Run 161.
This was the Sunday group run from the Running Room Store – Westhills. It was a small group today for a 16 K run along the reservoir. Started out being just Ed and myself, then about 1.5 K into the run Joe caught us.
This is a favourite run, a fairly easy 10 miler that is flat or downhill on the way out and uphill usually with a headwind on the way back. After about 5 K the run follows the reservoir path system and it is very scenic. This is the third or fourth time I have run this route this year. I ran it on April 3 and April 10 and it looked very different.
The views of the Weaselhead (the wetlands at the start of the reservoir) seem to change every time I run this. Today the water levels were high.
As we ran the path it became apparent that there was something going on in the park today. There were more pedestrians than usual and we saw strange things like hot air balloons and heard music.
And when we rounded the corner and turned north we found the finish line.
Unfortunately it was the start / finish line for the Betty’s run for ALS and we still had 6 km of hard uphills to run. As we turned onto 37th street to start the hard uphill the pace picked up and we ran the long hill quite hard. It felt very good.
I felt some twinges in the legs after the run yesterday, there was a definite tenderness at the origin point of the hamstring. It was pretty good for the bulk of the run. I felt my glute after crashing the long uphill. And post run I could feel some tension in both hamstrings. A little foam roller seemed to help work that out.
All in all a really fun run with great guys. 10.2 Miles in 1:28. Not a bad run.
Plod On.
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