Trailblazing...

For the second week in a row we had one of the lowest turnouts of the winter. Still, compared to last year's numbers 6 people is a lot. I can't help but wonder where the rest of the gang is though? We'll give it a few more weeks before we start calling people out by name (you know who you are!) but barring injury why would you train all winter only to give up just before Spring???

Anyway, the six of us hit the trails at Clayton Saturday and at one point in the middle of the Doctor's Trail Nate noticed a path off the one we were on and said: "I wonder where this one goes...I don't think we've ever taken it..." He was right, we had never taken it but we were lucky to have found it. It took us on a nice loop and, of course, since this was Clayton it included some great hillwork. The best part was when it was over because it dumped us right back out to the original spot where we had picked it up at. The meant that while we had just added a newly found, extra, mostly uphill mile loop to the course, we had come out no closer to the finish than we had been when we started in. Good stuff!!!

I'm always amazed at how lost most of us, including me, still get in the trails at Clayton but we always come out feeling better for having put in the hill work. Be sure to check out Charlie's post to see the map of the course we ran along with the elevations, all courtesy of his new Garmin Forerunner 205.

Roll call: Bill S., Bill Y., Cassi, Charlie, Diana, Nate, Terri