Saturday
Since I went out late Friday night and slept in a bit on Sat morning, I bagged the race and went for a run/hike in forest park. I just did Wildwood starting at the Arboretum. I actually ended up going a little under 6 miles in about an hour 10, which I was pretty amazed by. Mostly I ran up the hills and walked the flats and downhills, except on the way back down Pittock mansion I flew down. Damn, coming up the backside of pittock is pure evil. Up and up and up…I had to stop twice and walk it off before running again. Yow! But in general I felt pretty awesome, my knee didn’t really hurt at all! I think alternating walking/running really, really helps.
Sunday
Sunday me and a friend went out to Molalla which I’ve been wanting to check out since it’s only an hour away. There wasn’t anyone there when we got there (finally, after getting lost a billion times because the bridge is out and out guide didn’t give very good directions). We went on the Rim trail, which was pretty awesome. A lot of uphill right away which is pretty killer; lots of rocks so I definitely did a bit of walking, but a beautiful trail overall, something I will be coming back to, especially since there are so many little offshoot trails so you can do a different route each time. By the time we got back there were a million horse trailers in the parking lot, not any hikers though.
