Marine View Drive

Yesterday I got in a 7 miler. Today, I did over 10 miles with almost 1200 ft of vertical up. The weather was terrible today. Temps around 39 degrees while I was running with a very strong wind. I ran south of our house to Shorewood and then over to Marine View Drive to Fauntleroy and Lincoln Park.
There were some great views on this run. There is a great grove of Madrona trees on the south side of Lincoln Park that are really cool when a strong wind is blowing. It was great running on the trails for that section. From Lincoln, I took Thistle all the way back. Thistle has this great section of a heck of a lot of stairs. A real lung burner.
The large vertical today was the result of reading about the course for The North Face Adventure Challenge in May. Supposedly, the trail is never flat in that race. I don't plan to race it, but want to be ready for a very challenging 50 km run if it works out to do it.

This afternoon, the whole family went for a walk to Riverview park near our house. It was still cold and really windy. We thought we were going to get deluged on the way home, but instead we had snow flurries. Crazy weather for March!
Once home, took the opportunity to light a fire in the fireplace. Of course, now the weather has broken and it is sunny blue skies out.

Bill, aka W.A., has been fussier since we got back from Houston. We think he might have had the cold that Mommy is fighting. But he is still a very good boy, just wants more attention. He is grabbing things and holding on to them a lot more now. And he just breaks out into talking away now. It's fun to listen to it.

I can't believe it is already Thursday. Classes start up again on Monday.