Mon 8/12 - double, 1:40 total

AM - 30 minutes very easy. Puttered around the campus of Fort Lewis College looking for a place to do some barefoot jogging and drills and strides. The perfect spot, a broad expanse of manicured athletic fields, was of course closed for maintenance. Ran laps on the infield of the laughably antiquated dirt track instead. Stiff and sore from yesterday of course, the drills helped but only somewhat. Followed this up with a full round of stretching and core work which was the other big priority of the morning.

PM - 70 minutes, Animas Mountain trail. Not quite the terrain I was expecting but all I needed to to was look at a map to see the mountain itself is a tilted mesa, with the trail switchbacking steeply to the top then gradually grinding up to the north end before coming back down. I was expecting a bit more flat up top, of which there was just about none. Compared to the climbing yesterday it was a cakewalk though, with scenery just as ridiculous. The descent was tiring of course but again not as rubbery-legged by the end as yesterday.

 the road goes straight, the river doesn't

 their defense mechanism is to stay perfectly still and hope you don't notice them

 even steeper drop off than it looks