Happy New Year everyone!
It's always great to bring in a new year with much excitement and hope. For many of us the new year always starts off with a workout and for me that means gathering together with some of my best buddies and getting an EPIC workout in – usually a run.
For 2011 we decided to meet at my house and run the Lobdell Trail loop. This epic loop features more than 6 significant creek crossings and with a sudden warm-up in weather that meant “swollen” creek crossings. Of course that thrilled all of us as we assembled at my house ready for the 90+ minute run. It was already 48 degrees and warm enough for shorts (for some of us) and for my young neighbor Isaac, warm enough for shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt.
It’s a short 2k road run to the park where most of us (except for Isaac) shed some clothes at the park PJ as we were already too warm. This particular park is mostly used by horseman and the trails are very beat up and offer pretty bad footing. Within the first 400 yards we came to our first knee deep creek crossing which was easy enough to cross but provided a serious cold shock to the legs. All of us agreed with little to no feeling in our feet it forced us to move along at a pretty good clip to warm back up. This was the scenario for the entire run – run till you feet warmed up, then another creek crossing to numb them back up.
Sadly no one did a face plant or slipped head over heels into the creek (which makes this blog much less interesting) but we did enjoy old stories and remembered some of our past epic workouts from long ago (when we were all much younger). We concluded our workout standing in my driveway sharing our racing goals for 2011. Mine was to run faster and have another PR at Miami Man, Mark wanted to just keep pace with 2010, Don thinks losing 20 pounds will surely make Ironman Louisville a lot easier and Isaac hoped he still had a job with HFP in 2011 – we’ll see about that one!
Bring it,
HFP Man
About Me
- hfpman
- Shannon has always had a passion for racing ever since his very first “biathlon” in 1987 while in high school. While attending The Ohio State University in 1989 Shannon created Health and Fitness Promotions, which would later become HFP Racing. For more than 20 years Shannon has been a hands-on race director while simultaneously fueling his passion for racing. Don’t be surprised on race morning to catch Shannon covered in sweat and his shoes covered in orange paint as he tirelessly finishes up last minute race details while preparing himself to jump into the race and join the fun.