Nine's an estimate, but no matter how long the run was it was one of the best of the year. Through happenstance last week I reconnected with a girl I knew in high school, who now happens to have become a pretty good ultrarunner (fourth in the national trail marathon championship this fall, and just finished a Grand Canyon R2R2R). So we met up in Discovery Park in Seattle to do some trails. Absolutely perfect fall Pacific Northwest Day, chilly but the sun was out. We did two laps of the park, catching up and playing the game where we find out how many runners we know in common (she paced Leland Barker at the Hard Rock one year, and knew some other Utah names from running the Wasatch 100). Kept a real good pace, had to be close to 7/min miles since we were conversational (but not easily, at least for me), the course had enough hills to be honest but nothing too challenging. Fun run, and I think I've also been convinced into my first ultra, next March at a 50k near Bellingham.
Followed that up warming up with some coffee, then went to Husky Stadium and watched the UW win its season finale against Cal. supernova glide - 111
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