Runalong

I've been feeling REALLY good lately. I wish I knew what caused it so I'd know what to do to keep it going. When I say that I've been feeling good, you have to understand that I never really know how well I'm feeling until I go out for a run.

Generally, I almost always feel pretty good. Not much detectable difference from day to day. But when I go out for my run, some days I feel great and some days I feel old and some days are average. I never know until I get out there.

The last two months I've been consistently feeling great. Even the week after a grueling 50 mile race!

How good? I've never felt this good, this consistently, in the ten years I've been running. Yesterday I zipped up and down South Fork in 85 degree heat and it didn't even seem hard (seven miles and 2000' climb to the top, then down).

I'm starting to ramp up my training for the HURT 100 in January, so this is happening at a most propitious time!

My friend, Peter Fish, is 71, so when he begins a sentence by saying, "It hasn't been a good year for me healthwise," I prepare myself for bad news. But he's an ultrarunner, so bad news is relative. He went on to mention that, nevertheless, he's still able to run about 50 miles a week.

People hear that I run ultras and sometimes they just burst right out: "Are you crazy?!!"

Yeah - crazy like a Fish!