Snowmobile Trail Run

Snowman and I headed over to Bradbury Mountain State Park late this morning for a long run. With the weather over the past few days, we decided the Snowmobile Trail would be our best bet for a good solid surface. We headed out the Link Trail, which was a frozen mess of footprints, until we passed the Lanzo Trail. There Snowman noted that a few snowshoers had been out onto Lanzo, packing things down. And it was now frozen solid. So, we thought we'd try it. It was a great surface until intersection 83, where the surface was no longer solid. We were postholing regularly, and both of us have the cuts (Snowman) and bruises (me) to prove it. Ow! So, a few minute later, around we turned. Back to the Link. And onto the Snowmobile Trail. Ahhh... the Snowmobile Trail had been used recently by, yup you guessed it, snowmobilers and the churned up frozen surface was great for running. It was a nice morning, around 29 degrees, sunny and a bit windy, and we enjoyed our journey through the woods. We made it out to the edge of a (gravel?) pit past Brown Road, where we stopped and tried a few Clif Shot Bloks before we turned around. I felt really good for most of the run, but was a bit tired on the last big hill near the park's boundary. There Snowman took the lead and we made our way back down the trail and onto the Link back to the parking lot. We figured we ran 8.5 miles in our 1:18 out on the trails. May have been more, but as we don't have a GPS it's hard to tell. Still, it seems plausible that we were running 9:15's and probably faster at some points. Regardless, it was a good solid run, and a good excuse to spend the rest of the afternoon sitting on the couch watching an Anthony Bourdain marathon!