Back At It

Legs feel just about recovered from my "effort" over the weekend.  My soleus and achilles in both legs were stiff as a board on Sunday, but I've been walking around quite a bit and things have loosened up tremendously.

After two hours of tuning and fixing the intonation on my guitar last night, I was mentally drained so I passed out early.  Stupid Floyd Rose tremolos!  I woke up early though which meant it was time to hit the gym.  Did some hill intervals for about 40 minutes and I was sweating like a pig.  I'm sure the ladies down wind of me were disgusted by my stench.  That's what they get for not even breaking a sweat and having to smell their own filth.  Ha!  I felt really good though, just some slight fatigue left from Zion.

Another ART session after work today.  Hoping this will be my last PT visit.  I'll be incorporating massage into my regimen for post-race recovery, but I don't want to have to go back because of injury.

Went with Jun and Dorsimus to mark the course for the HOMM trail half marathon.  We parked the car at the end of the trail and the race director drove us up to the start.  I've never run the area before, but it was outstanding.  Wish I was able to run the actual race because the course is fantastic!  Unfortunately, with about a mile to go I wiped out... HARD!  I immediately got up and started running again because I didn't want to stiffen up.  I made it out alive.

When I got home I cleaned up really good.  I ended up pulling a few rocks out of my hand and knee and I've got some nice "trail rash".  The worst is my knee; completely swollen and a 3/4 inch gash that goes all the way to the bone.  I'm gonna be sore for a few days.

This area is outstanding!  I was kinda bummed when I moved to West Jordan because I would be so much farther from the Wasatch range.  However, after running in the Oquirrhs, I'm really looking forward to spending my summer exploring out there.

1650 ascent
3600 descent