Sunday

Long trail run day.  4 hours of sleep, breakfast, changed clothes, then headed out to the forest.  Really packed parking lot, had to circle around for a few minutes before finding a spot.  Looked like a lot of cyclists.  Wanted to do an Outer Loop plus some extra stuff today.  I had asked my group message board if anyone was interested in joining me but no one responded.

Started out around 3:00.  Started slow since I knew I would be going a  long ways.  Got maybe a quarter mile into it when I see I'm catching up on a girl walking a black dog.  As I get within 10m or so, I see its a large black German Shepard, so I start calling out "on your left, on your left" to signal I'm about to pass.  Absolutely no recognition.  As I get to within a couple meters, I see she's wearing earbuds.  Yep, good plan while walking your large aggressive dog on narrow, crowded forest trails.  Intelligent!  I veer into the woods to go around them and just as I'm about to pass, the dog finally sees me and lunges at me, narrowly missing me.  Good job sweetie, you keep being stupid.

Pretty uneventful for the next 45min or so.  I was climbing up the biggest hill in the forest when I heard some voices in front.  It was a man and woman hiking up the hill with large packs on.  I the woman talking about a "48 hour endurance event" which sounded similar to the GoRuck Challenge I did in Charleston in Dec 2012.  I briefly stopped to ask her about it, while walking up the trail still.  She tried to convince me to do some other variation of a GRC called "F.O.R.G.E."  Basically get hazed for 13 hours, but without a special operations instructor.  Yea no thanks.  Probably only wasted a minute or two talking to them.

Kept chugging along.  Had a little bit of discomfort in my right hamstring but otherwise did alright.  Finished pretty strong in 1:43, but you can probably subtract a minute or so off there for when I stopped.