A Jeffersonian Consideration of Future Runs

Following last Sunday's BPAC 6-Hour Distance Run, and with my knees feeling better day-by-day, it's time to turn my attention to a follow-up feat... there are a number of different runs on the horizon so it would seem that bit of re-focusing is in order...

My options seem to reflect an almost Jeffersonian choice (see Thomas Jefferson's Head and Heart Letter (1786) here), a conversation of sorts between what my head thinks is best and what my heart desires. Unlike President Jefferson, these matters are not of personal romantic nature, but reflect two divergent avenues for expressing my passion for challenge. My knees are telling me "run short and fast," my hear and head continue to whisper "long and slow is the way to go..."

Coming up this Sunday is the 15 mile MedVed Madness Trail Race. This might be a good follow-up to last week's run with the change in elevation and (likely) technical nature of the course substituting for the beating my knees took running BPAC's black-topped surface. The races organized by the lads involved with this one are always great fun... though my goal would be to complete the race without getting a lost. (The pictures from the 2008 edition certainly do paint an intriguing picture, too!)

Three weeks later, over the Memorial Day holiday, there will be the second race in the Western New York Ultra Series, (the first being BPAC), the Highland Forest 1-2-3 on Saturday, May 23rd. This run would also require a little bit of a Roadie, this time East toward Syracuse. In year's past, my wife and I have spent this weekend in Buffalo for the Nissan Buffalo Marathon, so this might be a nice change of pace/venue... I'll file this one under a "possibility," but given the travel involved not quite yet a "probability."

Breathe in, breathe out… YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!