Back to Sunken Meadow

With all the snow and ice still on the roads, I figured I would head back to Sunken Meadow this morning.

If nothing else, I know I can always run on the roads in there, whether out to the golf course or up to the toll booth.  Today's run was a bit of a mish-mash.  I enjoyed a wind aided first mile along the boardwalk, before turning around and attempting a 3/4 mile tempo run back, into the wind.  Winter winds at Sunken Meadow tend to be of the cold, stiff, stand-you-straight-up-and-smack-your-face variety.  Rick and I developed the philosophy awhile back that all tempo/fartlek runs should be done into the wind to make them "extra" hard.  I hate this philosophy...

Back at the other end, I cruised out to the golf course.  It's a slow rising, subtle uphill stretch.  I toyed with the idea of peeling off and heading down the trail to the Christmas tree in the middle of the woods - seeing as I hadn't made it out there in December - but the trail was a mess and I opted for roads.

Coming back I did a loop up to the tollbooth.  Later on I'll do repeats up this 3/4 mile hill, but for today I was content for a leisurely run up and back.  Felt good, and outside of the lingering PITA, everything is still holding together nicely.


41 miles down, 459 to go...