Wednesday and Thursday

This is a recovery week for me, just 4 x 9 mile runs, one on monday, wednesday, thursday and saturday. Wednesday's run was a good run (of course, any run is a good run in my book), I did 9 miles starting at Ritz Epps gym. I hit some of the trails, went onto Longstreet, hit the sisters and kept going. I went past McRidge, which marks the boundary of the range area on FT Bragg, unfortunately, nobody was firing that morning, so it was just me and the Forerunner. There was one guy on a bike, but he fell into the category of Bike Snob: He had a cool, rather expensive bike, all of the cool guy bike gear and clothes and he was wearing cool guy sunglasses, what made him fall into the Bike Snob category was as we passed each other, I said "morning" (which is my running policy, always say something) and he of course said nothing, being a Bike Snob. After I made the turn back to the gym and went through the Access Control Point I hit some firebreaks and ran through the woods back to Ritz Epps gym. FT Bragg has an extensive network of fire roads through most of the woods, so it is great running, well maintained, clear and through the woods, nice running.

Thursday was a quick 9 miler from the HQs building, I had some work stuff that made me run a little early (I hate it when that work stuff gets in the way of a good run. . . .), I started off from the parking lot, hit Yadkin extension road then turned onto Yorktown Victor. Yorktown Victor is an interesting road, it was one of the roads that was fenced off when FT Bragg became a closed post (post 9-11). The road is almost exactly 1.5 miles long, and has a great set of hills on it. Because it is closed there is no traffic and you can really get some good momentum on it. There is also a good chance that there will be other runners to chase down or pace off of. For me, it is normally chase down . . . . Anyway, at the end of Yorktown Victor, I made a right onto one of the firebreaks and just kept going, after 4.5, I turned around and knocked out a negative split on the way back, nice strong finish on the hills, pretty good run.