11/23, 11/24 and 11/26

Wednesday 11/23/05
first run since last Thursday due to being sick, felt nice

Thursday 11/24/05
5 mile Gallop and Gorge, great time 36:45,

Saturday 11/26/05
Trailhead run, fast pace, 45 minutes into it, right knee started hurting, ran 1:50, IT band(?) hurts, never experienced this before, have stretched it today, I think the week off, Thursday's fast road run, the cold today and the run created more stress than usual. I will see how I feel Wednesday.

Company Mill Wednesday 11/16/05 and Thirsty Thursday 11/17/05

Conditions: 75 degrees, humid, windy, lots of leaves, ok

Company Mill loop, 10x 1 minute intervals, slower recovery than last time. Nice run

11/17/05
Thirsty Thursday 52 minutes, nice lunch time run

Tuesday 11/15/05 Duke Forest Kortisan Divsion

Conditions: Party Cloudy/Rain, 75 degrees, Nice
ran out and back loop, 1:05, nice slow pace, hilly loop

Beaver Dam Sunday 11/13

Sunday 11/13/05
Conditions: 70 degrees, Sunny, Very Very Nice

Beaver Dam, inner loop, to west loop, to south loop, awesome ride

Double Dipper Friday 11/11

11/11/05 Friday
Conditions: Cold, Sunny
7:30am Freaky Friday ride, rode about one hour with Bobcat, nice ride

2:00pm, Cannondale test ride of their new Rush, rode another hour, not too excited about the bike, nice ride however

11/12/05 Saturday
Conditions: Cold, Sunny
Trailheads 7:30am 1 hour 45 minutes.

11/8 and 11/9

Tuesday 11/8/05 MTB
Conditions: 80 degrees, perfect for mtb
rode on "other" side, 1:10 very nice ride

Wednesday 11/9/05
Conditions: 80 degrees, little hot, nice
New Company Mill workout with Gary
time to beat 52:04
felt very slow, actually ran the loop faster than I ever have before? Hard to believe but it's true, we also completed our workout with 5 quick hill repeats, next time we'll increase the length.

Weekend 11/5 and 11/6

Saturday 11/5/05
Conditions: 60 degrees, Sunny, very very nice
Trailhead run, 1.5 hours, felt very strong, recovered from marathon

Hike with Reilly, Beth, Gary, Nicki, Addie and Emmie

Sunday 11/6/05
Conditions: 60 degrees, Sunny, very very nice
6:45am, met Soloman for one hour run, fast pace for me, feeling it

MTB Week 10-31

Decided to take a week off from running,

Monday Oct 31, 2005
Conditions: Sunny, 70 degrees, very very nice
Nice bike ride Monday at noon, biked to banshee, upper banshee, upper witchlands, busted a spoke, full neverland, back to 1/2 of lower witchlands, passed ringo and dogs. 1 hour ride.

Wednesday Nov 2, 2005
Conditions: Sunny, 65 degrees, very very nice
Spent an hour riding all the trails at Lake Crabtree, nice ride but this place can lull you into sleep, I think next time I'll either ride Rocky Road (very hard) or ride part of Crabtree and then get a hill workout in at Umstead. I am also going to shift my rides to Tuesday since Gary and I are going to start a training regiment at Umstead

Friday Nov 4, 2005
Conditions: 7:15am cold, warmed p, very nice
Freak Friday ride, met Booda, Squonk and newbie Stewart Bryan for nice ride, wormhole, flying dagger, lower witchlands, spyder hole, back to Unity, home. Very nice ride.