Toe the Line
LHRL® Slack App I haven’t trained enough. The trail will be tough. Pretty sure I’ll be the last one to cross the finish line. We have to run up a mountain. The weather forecast is a beast. Mud. Stinging nettles. Bears. It’s in the middle of a huge forest. I’m going to...
What the H……(Hydration Pack)?
LHRL® Slack App This summer there were a few trail races on my schedule. They were slightly longer races that would require me to carry some stuff in order to be self-sufficient and ready for whatever the trail threw at me. So I bought a hydration pack. I love the...
Time Machine
LHRL® Slack App Hot summer day. Middle of a training ride. I’ve just climbed over the crest of a long hill. Legs are burning, gasping for air, and desperately thirsty. As I sit back in the saddle and relax my pedal cadence, I reach for some water. Grabbing the bottle...
Sorry, Thoreau
LHRL® Slack App “I went to the woods because I wished to run deliberately, to front only the essential facts of the trail, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I reached the end, discover that I had not adventured. I did not wish to...
Human Nature?
LHRL® Slack App I work a warehouse job. Shipping and receiving; order fulfillment. Tractor-trailers lock onto the docks, we unload the freight, stock gets put away in the racks. Customers place orders, some of us run around like squirrels on amphetamine picking...
