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Scouting Run for Ridgeline Ramble

My wife and I did a bit of a scouting run today, so she could see some of the 2nd half of the Ridgeline Ramble she'll be doing as part of our relay team.  We ran the Fox Hollow section out to Dillard, along Dillard to the Dillard West trail head, where we saw what looks like a fairly steep section of trail that heads up to the Baldy summit.  We ran out of time today, had to go pick up my son from school, so we'll hit that another day.  Decent run.  I did a bit of back and forth as my pace is a fair bit faster than hers, which is all good.  Going to be good to know the full course before hand.  On Wed we'll probably do the Dillard chunk.  That'll only leave doing the entire Willamette section (from 52nd to Fox Hollow) left to scout out, oh, and the paved part on Spring, etc.  I've done nearly all the Willamette part, but don't know about a half mile in the middle.

Felt good today, although I did get a bit of pain in the back of my left leg, sort of higher than the achilles, but along those lines.  Not happy about that.  Don't know if it was the brace, or just a bit of strain on my body after now having started to run again after so much time off, or what.  Hoping it's just a fluke and gone by Wednesday...

Posted May 17, 2010