Just Crazy Enough

Oh.my.heavens.  If I thought I was overdone yesterday, today I might as well be turkey jerky.  You may know that I'm near crazy enough to try anything.  Except bungy jumping.  I'm cautiously adventuresome.  I enjoy a challenge.  Competitive, not so much.  But I do just like to see if I can DO it.  Whatever that may be.  Sometimes it's climbing a mountain, one time it was running a marathon, now it's doing a triathlon.... You get it.

Yesterday I said to Brian, "I might take a half day off tomorrow.  Though I don't know what I'd do."  He replied, "go do something crazy like bike the entire Creeper Trail."  ........... I could end this post here 'cause y'all know what happened next.

But I'll keep goin'.  ;)  I got on my bike in Abingdon and got on the trail.  I kept thinking to myself that I had two options:  I could ride all the way to Damascus and back (17 miles one-way); or I could ride to Alvarado (9.3 miles one-way) and back to Abingdon and then run 2 or 3 miles.  So ya know what I did?  I rode to Alvarado, ran about 1.5 miles, rode on to Damascus and ran another mile once I got there.  And then I rode 17 miles back to Abingdon.

Hell.Fire.Burning doesn't even begin to describe the sensation in my legs.  Not really even close.  When I got to Damascus, I did rest a few minutes before I ran.  It helped.  I have been getting a bit nervous about the Iron Nut and my ill-prepared abilities.  But on the ride back down to Abingdon I got to thinking.  So what if I have to take a 2 minute break between my bike and my run at the Iron Nut.  Sure, it's not ideal but I'll still accomplish what I wanted to.  I'll still finish.  It's not the end of the world.

I'm not out to win this monster.  I'm just crazy enough to try it.  I'm gonna have fun with it.  If I can.  :)  I did see Dr. Ann on the trail today!  I should have warned her that biking to Damascus and back with or without running was a bad idea.  34 miles of a bad idea.  At least now I won't feel bad about wimping out on my last chance work out.  Done and Done!

The hike I have planned for tomorrow may be a little tricky however.... especially if my legs are blocks of hell.fire.burning concrete in the morning.  We'll see!