Back to Rain

I guess I can't complain about the weather here in Vancouver, considering what it's like for the rest of the continent right now. We were spoiled last week - blue skies and mild temps - so the return of the rain today was not exactly welcome. Oh well, it IS Vancouver, after all.

Went out Saturday morning with a big VanRun group for 11km, then again on Sunday for a couple of hours on the Badon Powell trail in North Vancouver. I hadn't been on the trails for six or eight weeks and had totally lost my trail legs, so it was a very challenging run for me. Actually, it turned into a more of a power hike. Much of the trail was quite technical, and at my current ability level, I wasn't able to run all of it. Rolled an ankle once, but no tears and only very minor swelling that evening. My quads are still killing me, two days later. Here's a photo Brent snapped:

A bit of a goofy shot (I'm sort of blinking...) but you can see how nice the weather was.

I got to see the film Desert Runners that evening with some members of the group. I really enjoyed the film, and was totally inspired - but I'm not running a desert ultra any time soon!

Today I ran about 11km. Nothing spectacular. Wasn't too worried about pace, but the splits worked out pretty well.

Knock on wood - so far my watch has been working fine since I tried the master reset. *please* stay that way!