Trail Run Tomorrow
Ash is at his Nana's house tonight, which leaves Johnny and I alone - amazing! Dinner out - hence the margs - and back to the house we go. I wanted to see a movie; it's so rare when we get a chance to see a movie in the cinema. But no money. Oh well.
Trying to get both of us prepped for a run is tough - we share so much of our gear, we're not used to us both being able to go out for a run at the same time that we don't know what to do! Who gets the watch? Who gets which handheld water bottle? (Not all straps are made equal, you know.) Who gets which pair of pants, which shirt, which long johns?! Being the same size is great (for me, anyway - twice the wardrobe!), but means that when we both need technical clothing, we are low on options.
Plus the margs buzzing around my head makes it difficult to think. What do I need? This will be my longest run yet (although I've hiked farther). Johnny is doing the full ascent with the trail running group - up Mt. Lemmon from Sabino Canyon. I, however, being a beginning trail runner, will merely be descending from the top about 5ish miles, and then running back up. I'm looking for a total of about 10 miles. Johnny will end up doing 18.5, with over 6000 vt. ft. of elevation change. Yikes! (I do look forward to being able to accomplish that.)
We ran out of gels. No gels! I wanted to be able to experiment on this run...but alas, tis not to be. Stuck with Clif bars and Gatorade (mmm...delicioso!) - which will make me have gas, I'm sure of it. Listen to me, so down! I should be looking forward to this - an actual run - on trails - no worries about Ash!
Johnny wants me to go to Safeway right now. Ugh! I don't want to leave the house. He says I don't have to think - but I'd have to move! That's almost worse. I'm pouting.
Tomorrow better be worth it.