I'm at my parents house in Savannah, and the neighborhood they live in is off of a two lane road with NO shoulder and tight turns. Multiple bikers have been injured/killed on this road. My mom is adament that I dont' run on this road. So if I run around here I have to stay in the neighborhood, which is a 1 mile loop...I've done it many a time but it's BORING! So today I decided to drive on out to Skidaway Island state park and run the trails there.
I have NEVER run on a trail before so I had NO IDEA what I was getting myself into....I thought I'd do a long run of 9-10 miles. It ended up being 3.65 miles....due to a multiplicity of factors. First, I had a terrible night of sleep last night(I ate dairy yesterday...bad me) and then I slept in(till 0740, which is sleeping in for me!), then my I ate my pre-run snack of pumpkin bread and pb and was going to go get ready and my mom kept asking me for all this help getting ready(for work, nothing special!). then I had all these issues getting my stuff together to do. Finally I headed out and got to the trails around 0930. I headed out...If you loop all the trails it's SUPPOSEd to be 5 miles so I figured I could just do them twice and be done...well, the connector trail from the main trail to the two smaller trails was closed!! I also had NO idea how difficult trail running is! I was really putting in significant effort and only averaging around an 11:30-12:00 minute mile pace! After doing parts of the trails that I could I started running around the campground there. I was going to go for awhile but then I started getting a blister(and didn't have extra moleskin with me) and I knew I had to stop. Now don't think I'm some sort of wimp who can't handle a blister, heck I got blisters that bled and ulcerated during a half marathon last year, but since I have a race coming up on the 14th I didn't want to make things worse...anywho..
Stopped and took some pics on the trail:
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