PM: 16 miles easy/moderate
I bagged plans to run with Varner in Marin and waited until the afternoon to run to ensure that my stomach had settled after yesterday. I was in dire need of some new scenery, and there is an abundance of great running in the area, so I mapped out a run starting from Ralston Ave. I left from a Park and Ride down to Canada Road, which like Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park is closed to traffic on Sundays for a 3-ish mile stretch of road.
I connected Canada to another trail that climbed for more than a mile up to the Crystal Springs Cross Country course, which appears to be a site built with the explicit purpose of racing cross country--awesome, though I wish I would have found my way here months ago. It has packed dirt trails and reminded me a little bit of the XC course at Lehigh from college. I ran two loops of the 3-mile course that had constantly rolling hills before backtracking, stopping to climb up to a vista and adding on a little at the end to make it an even 16 miles.
I didn't feel sharp today, but it was one of my better long runs in a while. I'm in somewhat of a running funk right now, so I need to be proactive about breaking out of it. Finding diverse and challenging places to run seems like a good way to do that. Here is the link to the run: http://www.mapmyrun.com/workout/218631920
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