{"id":156,"date":"2009-07-11T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crockettclan.org\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-07-11T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T21:38:23","slug":"scout-camp-training-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crockettclan.org\/blog\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Scout camp training run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still at scout camp up at Scofield Reservoir, I again got up very early, the sixth straight day that I was out running around 3:30 a.m.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ve never done that before.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m going to have to catch up on sleep.\u00a0 <\/span>For today\u2019s adventure, I decided that I would run all the way around Scofield Reservoir.\u00a0 <\/span>I bet no one has done that before.\u00a0 <\/span>My route turned out to be 18 miles.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I quietly left camp as the boys and leaders were snoring away after a lively evening that didn\u2019t stop until midnight.\u00a0 <\/span>So, I was working on only three hours of sleep.\u00a0 <\/span>I did have a few cat-naps during the previous day.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I ran the loop clockwise, first running north out of the camp and state park and onto the pavement, Rt. 96.\u00a0 <\/span>All was quiet in the early morning and I only had about four cars pass me in either direction.\u00a0 <\/span>I pushed the pace a bit on the pavement.\u00a0 <\/span>I was feeling good and my problem ankle was doing well.\u00a0 <\/span>Yesterday I did some work on my shoe tread and insole to carve off some material to relieve some pressure on the outside of my foot.\u00a0 <\/span>It seemed to work very well, because my foot was never in much pain on this run.<\/font><\/p>\n

As I was running along, my thoughts turned to the Colorado Mountains were several friends were running in the Hardrock 100, the toughest 100-mile race in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Local runner, the best in the world, Karl Meltzer won the race as I was running along, in 24:38.<\/font><\/p>\n

I reached the far south end of the loop and ran through the little town of Scofield which was still very much asleep.\u00a0 <\/span>It was now about 5:15 a.m.\u00a0 <\/span>I was still on the pavement.\u00a0 <\/span>The loop has about 10 miles of pavement.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The sun started to rise and again today cause the clouds to look like they were on fire.\u00a0 <\/span>It was an amazing scene.<\/font><\/p>\n

I finally reached dirt road as several fisherman drove by and stopped to fish at Fish Creek.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I was now in familiar territory, reaching a point where I had passed by in my yesterday\u2019s run.\u00a0 <\/span>As I ran along the wide dirt road, I passed by a couple massive cabins.\u00a0 <\/span>I scratch my head and wonder why people want expensive cabins out here.\u00a0 <\/span>There are no trees and it tends to be pretty windy.\u00a0 <\/span>I guess they must have a great love for fishing and ATVs.\u00a0 <\/span>Sitting under a cool tree in your yard isn\u2019t an option.<\/font><\/p>\n

To finish my run, I had to zig-zag up some roads and then decided to save a mile by doing a short bushwhack directly toward the scout camp.\u00a0 <\/span>I descended a steep slope and then quickly connected to a trail the scouts had pounded out with their feet in a grove of trees where they did wilderness survival a couple nights earlier.\u00a0 <\/span>The downhill run was fun as I bounded through grass and jumped over logs.<\/font><\/p>\n

I spilled out into the scout camp, ran past the rifle range, and waved at all the camp staff who were all out picking up trash in a wide open field.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m sure they wondered who this early morning runner was.\u00a0 <\/span>I made the final climb up to our camp and arrived just as everyone was waking up.\u00a0 <\/span>Perfect timing.<\/font><\/p>\n

It was a wonderful early morning run.\u00a0 <\/span>It was pretty level, most of the way, I probably only climbed about 1,000 feet.\u00a0 My time for the 18 miles was about 3:15.\u00a0 It is nice to be training again after struggling for weeks with a foot\/ankle injury.\u00a0 I put in a 80-mile week.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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