A Case Against Trailrunning

Met the 9:30 Philly Runners group at the Art Museum, where I hooked up with Ian and Goat and headed off to Belmont Plateau to run around the trails. Ian gets off on leading us around on these incredibly winding through the brush paths where we get all turned around, run about 2 0r 3 miles in the space of .25 square miles, and end up about 20 feet from where we plunged in. As usual, I was super paranoid of twisting something, came real close several times to wiping out in the mud, and at 6'1" get more than my share of bushwacks.

So I'm in no danger of becoming a trailrunner. There's comfort in knowing that.

The company, however, was worth it on this breezy, sunny morning. Kelly Drive is getting all set for the big bicycle race they're having tomorrow, and we took advantage of free ice tea samples being distributed. We got back to the Art Museum at about the same time as the rest of the Philly Runners who took the conventional loop around the Drives, and it was good to stick around a little to socialize before heading back home.

Call it 15 miles in 1:58:31.