Pretty cool - Oak Mountain State Park managed to get ranked in the top 25 places to trail run in the US, by Runners World Magazine.  The Birmingham News decided to do a story on the ranking, and called me for an interview because I've owned the XTERRA races there.  I thought it was funny since I live two hours away and have only run there 3 times, but whatever they want... It was definitely an honor to be thought of for something like that

A very light week as I'm winding down the track season, did a combination workout Monday and some repeats on Wednesday. Saturday was to be a 3k time trial but due to the rise of achilles tendonitis I cut it at a mile

Monday was 2 mi threshold (10:37) plus 2x800 cruise interval (2:24, 2:24).  Wednesday was 3xmile 200 stride/200 jog with Big Sean Allen down at Fleet Feet Huntsville.  We basically hit around 35.0 for all of them, pretty smooth. 

In the time trial I went out with 71 72 71 quarters but with the achilles, I decided to just finish up at the mile so my last quarter was 65.  Sweetly, this actually gave me a PR in the mile of 4:39.8.  Totally unexpected, and encouraging because of how much faster I could have run if we were really going for the Mile.  It's been a really long time since I actually raced a mile all out, probably should soon.

But alas, now it's time to attend to this tendonitis so it does not kill my summer training and racing.  Sooo... looks like some pool time may be in order.  Oh fun fun