Reposted from
http://www.avonwalk.org/goto/Paul_Willett
Originally posted August 22, 2010
14.47 miles in 4:19:47 today, the second half of the last scheduled major training weekend before the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Santa Barbara. There will of course be more training walks in the next 19 days, but they're all relatively short, no more than 10 miles or so.
Today's pace was only 17:57 per mile, much slower than yesterday's 16:35 pace, but there was a freakin' mountain in there! Up over Santa Suzanna Pass Road from the San Fernando Valley into Simi Valley, then back up & over Box Canyon Road from Simi to SFV.
Then there was the rattlesnake... I came around a blind curve in the canyon, very narrow, no shoulder, a fair amount of traffic, and I looked down just in time to see my foot coming down on two feet of Western Diamondback. I promptly set a new world record for the standing high jump, screamed like a little girl, and only on the way down from Low Earth Orbit noticed that it was dead.
Oh, and I can update this blog using my iPhone. (Assuming THIS posts...) Let's hope they have wi-fi at the Wellness Village & major rest stops!
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