It's been more than six months since I've tackled the 12-mile Grand Circle Trail at Red Rock Canyon and with a Half Marathon coming up in Alaska in six weeks it was time for a little training run. It was a little warm at the start, mid 80s, and by the finish it had to be approaching the mid 90s. But like a Sherpa climbing Everest without bottled oxygen I had but a one-liter bottle (of water not oxygen) to get me through the delicious dozen miles.
Becoming one with nature I blended in with yucca cactus and creosote trees, scampering bunny rabbits, swift desert chipmunks, grouse birds and all sorts of lizards ranging from one to 10 inches long. I saw more blooming beavertail cactus and desert wild flowers than ever before it was amazing. After the run the ankles were a little sore and I felt a slight burn from the sunshine in the cloudless blue sky but it was all good.
Here's something to chew on. Did you know some scientists believe the universe was created by sound five billion years ago? And that sound was "OM!"
Nothing is permanent:
The sun and the moon rise and
then set,
The bright clear day is followed
by the deep, dark night.
From hour to hour, everything
changes.--KALU RINPOCHE
1 comment:
that was a good prep run.pay attention to the heat and fluid.On a run like that a "camel back" would be good and you dont have to worry about it slowing you down.
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