Spring Break for It

Spring is springing. And I'm running. And biking.

Last Friday, I put in two back-to-back 27 mile rides with a commute to and from work. It was a bitch of a ride with T-Rex hauling me out in the high 160's on the ride into work and one shitty northwest headwind beating me up on the ride back.

Earlier in the week, the madman family vacationed in Parajo Dunes near Watsonville, CA. This gave me the opportunity for some beach running as a means of some insight into this fall's Lost Coast Trail run. Ok, maybe I'm a 10%er but beach running is just boring. It's mile after mile of white noise and monotonous landscape. I mean occasionally there is the "Dude that was a narly wave!," but my limit is somewhere around 100 crying seagulls or 250 hopping willets. Maybe this doesn't bode well for the Coast Trail run, but I do think the scenery is a little more interesting and the challenge a little greater than a beach jog.