Back To The Grind!

After the Dirty Feet Trail Race, I took Monday off. I felt great physically, but knew that we would jump back into training full force.
Last week saw 2 road runs, which was a nice change to my normal training week. It was nice to stretch out the legs and pick up the pace!! WOOHOO!!!
Saturday, we did one of my favorite runs up to Divide Lake in Okanagan Mountain Park....Rene, Kevin and I enjoyed the sun, great conversation and some great elevation and a super long descent (my favorite:) ).

The next day, Rene, Alison, Karen and I set out at Ok Mountain Park once again, this time to run to Naramata! We had another beautiful day, and set out on the Wild horse canyon trail.....where we were following some REALLY fresh bear scat, but didn't see any bears.
This run was really cool for me, the last time I did this trail to Naramata was at night during a 36 hour adventure race, RAID THE NORTH.

 I got to see the cliff we repelled down, the trails where we were hallucinating on after being awake for 30 hours, the creeks where we filled our hydration packs in...... it was great, I've been wanting to run that trail again in the daylight for the past 2 years!!!  It was so much fun- good company, great views!! I feel like we almost ran every trail in the park last weekend:)

It was our first time training with our new black diamond trekking/running poles from Valhalla Pure, and I love them!!! I couldn't believe how much load they took off the legs when descending, and how much they helped on steep climbs!

This week has been a good training week with hill repeats, and another flat tempo run on the greenway- something I am going to incorporate each week into my training.
This is going to be a 4 day training block weekend, with it being a long weekend. I'm hoping to see some great trails, beautiful weather, and have fun with friends!!!