Mon mari is an engineer who works on astronomy projects and builds telescopes. Te work he does is incredibly cool but it means he gets stuck in remote locations sometimes. This past week he's been at his satellite location in NM on an observing run. His program failed to record the first 3 days of data, then it got cloudy. Long story short, he's stuck at 9K ft for the Labour Day weekend.
Hangin' on my own, I wanted to try to meet some folks. I had the options of my interval workout at the gym followed by a local wine shop's wine tasting, or trying a Tuscon Meet Up Friday night hiking group. Treadmill... 7.3 miles in a beautiful canyon.... treadmill.... 7.3 miles in a beautiful canyon....
Guess which won :)
The hike was 7.3 miles out and back in Sabino Canyon. The road is paved and there's a fairly steep climb at the end. I ran this as a 12K race earlier in the year (kicked. my. ass.), and I run up to the mile 3 marker during the winter. The company was really nice and the weather was perfect. Warm (95), but the sun was down, we had a showing of Nature's fireworks, and it rained a gentle rain for at least 2 miles. On the way back we saw toads, a 6 month old baby king snake, a diamond back rattler, and a tarantula. As much as I love my npr podcasts, this was so much better than even Wait, Wait, Dont' Tell me.
Since I started HM training I haven't been walking as much as I normally do. It was nice to do a long brisk walk instead of a run. My legs opened up nicely and hopefully it will help my right ham loosen up.
In other news, I received my HM tech tee tis week. I ordered a M (per the size chart) and you culd have fit two of me inside of it. I'm exchanging it for a small, but am excited to be able to start wearing it during workouts.
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