Running and Kayaking

     I joined Bellingham fit (http://www.bellinghamfit.com/) to help me train in a safe and sane way for my Humboldt Redwoods Marathon in October. Now that I'm beginning to run again since my calf injury has healed, I thought that this would be a good option for me. I've now gone to two of the Saturday group runs and did my first week of the 6 month training schedule I was given for my pace.
Last week we ran once around Lake Padden 2.6 miles

at a pace that is comfortable to us, to determine which pace group to train with. I'm in the walk/run group which is fine with me. My goal is to run as much as possible. I'll probably stay with this group for my whole training time, since the next group up starts at 10 minute miles and I've not gone that pace for a long time.
      Now that the weather is trying to be a bit better we got our kayaks out of the top of the garage and took them to a small local lake - Fazon lake (http://www.fishwhatcom.com/lakesrivers/Fazon.html) a couple times this last week. It was so nice to be on the water again. I love my kayak, it's a Perception sport 10' 6", just the right size for me.

   

Chuckanut 50k 2012 and SPRING!

The Chuckanut 50k takes place in our neck of the woods and on Saturday. Not such good weather for the run as it can become a real mud bog. My husband and I ran on the trails last year while the 50k was going.

Here's my post about it and the mud -

 http://hearsdifferentdrummer.blogspot.com/2011/03/chuckanut-50k.html 

                                         
   This years start was very gray and rainy.

The runners before the aid station and the Fragrance lake trail turn off on the interurban trail.

** I'm adding this You Tube video after I'd already done this posting.**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwzf822La-o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 I found this Chuckanut 50k 2012 You Tube video where I'm along the trail where the above picture was taken. In the video I'm the spectator on the right side of the trail, in the blue!

 There was about 3 inches of snow at Chuckanut ridge, the following blog post has great pictures of the day and some really good ones of the snow on the ridge and chinscrapper.

http://iantorrence.blogspot.com/2012/03/2012-chuckanut-50k.html

Here's another site that has some info and pictures of the day and the top 10 male and female finisher lists.

http://www.irunfar.com/2012/03/2012-chuckanut-50k-results.html

Here's a site that lists the complete results - you can select the info you want in just a few clicks.

http://realendurance.com/AllTimeList.php?a=C19#Years

It was great to be there and watch the event. I think we had the weather of all four seasons there during the day while we were watching.

Now I'm ready for SPRING!

Hyacinth in our flower bed - yippee!