Posted on Jul 18, 2008 under Trail |
There has been a long delay in posts, but hopefully I will be more diligent about being more consistent with these posts. So here goes..
Sunday, January 6, 2002
Workout: easy/recovery to Camino
Time: pretty fast (5:50-6:00 last mile) Weather: sunny, warm
At the beginning of the run on the trail, I wasn’t sore like some other runners from the 4-Cities Run, so I went a little faster with Ray. He told me it was going to be a hard run, so I wasn’t surprised at the pace he was running at. I also had in mind the day before, the really bad run that I didn’t even finish. However, I finished up before Ray, but just by a little. We started running back and caught up to another runner at Longden (he already ran and went again to Longden). So the three of us ran back and at Live Oak, Frank asked if we were going to run a killer last mile. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on May 01, 2008 under Trail |
Friday, January 4, 2002
Workout: medium/relaxed to Duarte
Time: pretty fast (6 minute last mile) Weather: sunny/warm
Today’s run on the trail was supposed to be a stick-together, fast and relaxed run. It wasn’t supposed to be a killer run because tomorrow, we were going to have to have a very tough workout. However, this doesn’t mean that we should dog the workout, because every run still helps out in the long run. So coming up on the trail, we pretty much stuck together, more or less. At the beginning of the run, Frank took off, like it was his hard workout. But he either started to slow down or we picked it up a little more. Toward the end of the first half of the run, it was Felipe who was leading it. So we came up with Felipe first and then me right behind him. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Apr 16, 2008 under Trail |
Thursday, January 3, 2002
Workout: 3 Miles Easy/Recovery to Camino
Time: Pretty Good (14 Minutes up) Weather: Sunny/Hot
Today was supposed to be an easy or recovery run on the trail after running intervals from yesterday. However, I guess because he didn’t run yesterday, Andrew decided to go harder. Coming up, at Live Oak, he was running pretty hard. Ha, as usual decided to stay with him. I decided to keep up, since I had a goal of not letting Ha beat me. Raymond also came along to keep things fun. His first day coming back to running and he’s keeping up with us, smiling to the person next to him trying to race. The person who came up first to Camino was Pat, who knew. Coming back, Fernando said we “should” stick together coming back. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on Mar 11, 2008 under Trail |
Here is a quick guide to the number of miles each checkpoint is in our running trail. As I have said in a previous post, the trail begins at a water tower and is a bike path through a wash. We run along the path, which is adjacent to a nearby driving range/golf course. Halfway through the first mile, you can finally start running on a real dirt/rubble trail. Live Oak and beyond is pretty much a horse trail (actual horses run on it!) with some sandy parts, and gravel as well. Now that I think about it, it was pretty tough running on our trail, and there have been times when we have tweaked our ankles because of the surfaces, we always had to be aware of what was ahead of us.
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Posted on Mar 08, 2008 under Trail |
So our high school has been running on this trail for many many years, won many champsionships (even a state championship) training on this trail. It begins as a bike road along a wash, going along a golf course (there are horror stories about driving range nuts trying to behead us with golf balls). Once we get to the first street (Live Oak), it is pretty much all trail or dirt. This Google Map shows the trail from beginning to end. For a better look, check out the original Google Map that I screen-grabbed this from.
I think my next post will be the first entry in the running log/journal that I kept during my Junior year in high school.
