t-minus 8

9.19 - 12.0, black snake over to jason's to watch some football. hot.

9.20 - 9.2, black snake loop, really fast last couple miles....felt like fitness is starting to return. happy run.

9.21 - 9.2, black snake loop, again solid running. the cool weather is invigorating.

9.22 - 0, bought a new machine and got busy.

9.23 - 4.5, lake loop evening, still busy moving machinery.

9.24 - 10.0, out and back from franklin, NC on bartram trail. beautiful, but the 9million spiderwebs put a damper on things.

9.25 - 20.0, bushwack from louis land to the AT, down to NOC, up to the jump up on the AT, back to NOC. then shuttled w/tim and lydia to tellico gap and ran over wesser bald down to NOC again! great running on nice trails. weather was cool and wet in the afternoon. just fun.
views from wesser bald were really nice after the rain.

week: 64.9

the machinery moving really took a chunk out of the week, but this is a turning point. with the good base starting to kick in, and the weather turning, there were alot of happy miles this week.
actually able to run alot of the uphill trail miles too, which is a great change from the summer of feeling weak and tired when running. encouraging! next week just needs to maintain the solid jogging, and then pace 50mi at grindstone.