I have been quite the blog slacker, but not as bad as Curtis ;) I intended to write this right after we ran but of course didn't and now it is a week later. Anyway, while Sue was visiting, we took her up to do some trail running on the Ravenwood or Syringa trails (depending on who you are talking to). To reach the trails, you pretty much have to run uphill and I must say not really a casual uphill. It is pretty steep and you probably run about a mile, then you get on a shorter trail and continue running uphill.
Curtis is really good at all these hills, I on the other hand am not so good and often have to walk a bit. Sue was good enough to take some walking breaks with me :) Finally we are at the main trails and yes, you do have to go up some more. We run up and down and traverse back and forth, back and forth. It is all going pretty good except we really didn't take into account that Sue isn't used to running in really dry weather. She was getting quite thirsty and maybe a bit dehydrated. On she went though, especially when Curtis said it was only about 1 1/2 miles to water (he fudged this a bit).
We finally quit climbing and started downhill, which by the way isn't always easier, but to get out of the trails you have to go down. We come down a dirt road back to pavement and now we have about mile and a half or two left. We took a little walking break and then back to running the last mile and at last the car is in view and water. YAY!!!
We estimate that the run was around 7 miles, 3 something on pavement and the rest on the trails so pretty good. We had a fun time and now Sue says "she ran up a mountain!"
~Sherry
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