BtR Soaring Eagle 5-mile

Today was the 3rd Annual Born to Run event at Soaring Eagle put on by Evergreen Trail Runs.   This run seems to always happen for me either right after a really long event or when I’m injured so even though they have distances up to 50k I’ve always ended up doing the shortest route possible which was 10k three years ago and 5-miles last year and this year.   I also always do this run in my Luna Leadville sandals even though the place is a mud hole.  I was hoping that all the work they did on the pipeline trail would make things less mucky this year, a few weeks ago it looked pretty good, but it was still pretty slippery and nasty in places.  At least two crazy people did the event barefoot and I saw one other guy in Lunas plus a few in VFFs, Inov-8s and other minimal shoes.

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More running reading – The Cool Impossible

Sitting through injury recovery and not being able to do much on the trails it seems I’m getting my fix indirectly by reading about running.  More specifically I’ve been reading a lot about injuries, injury prevention and training programs that claim to get people beyond injury and back on the trails or roads.   The Cool Impossible by Eric Orton is the latest in a series of such books I’ve ready.

Eric was Christopher McDougall‘s running coach for Born to Run.  Since BtR was the book that got me  into minimalist and trail running this book was a must-read for me and I pre-ordered the deluxe version of the book from iBooks as soon as I could.  Once the book arrived I devoured it in about 3 days but have since gone back over some sections over and over.

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