Comfortably Numb – Boy Meets Trail

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There was no stopping him this morning

 Not the heavy rain, nor the cougar sighting on the trail earlier in the week was enough to dampen his spirits today. He was

 going to run.

After a really fun trail run last week which lasted about 35 minutes around Lost Lake , Jack piped up that he wanted to run Comfortably Numb.  Since Hubby was doing a 2 1/2 hour run I half jokingly said ” Hey why don’t we run 2 hours too”  Sure was the response.  What?? I nearly tripped over a rock, surely he was joking.  Damn that meant I would have to run it too Big Mouth!

So we watched the 4 other speedies run off into the distance and  leave us in the dust (well mud)  and we settled in for our run.  Now Comfortably Numb is no walk in the park, from the moment you start it is up hill climb, I am guessing it climbs about 400 meters in the first 6km.  Jack was not deterred, he loves  running over rocks and roots, and uphills don’t seem to bother him – he was in his element.  I don’t think I have ever had more fun on a run. We paid our respects to El Presidenti and made our turn around, after travelling uphill for a hour we turned around and headed back. Ahh thank goodness for the downhill but wait. How quickly I had forgotten the downhill to the bridge and we slogged back up a horrible hill.  But as the saying goes what goes up must come down and after that it was smooth sailing.  Yee Ha that was fun.  Same time next week?

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