Oct 15 2010
Another Trilogy
While we’re all still giddy about how awesome the Trilogy was, most of us are back to doing what we normally do…trying to file away those precious days at the Mountain Institute like a summer fling with an ol’ sweetheart. But for some of us, what we “normally do” is pretty fun too.
We’ll file this under the category What Trail Runners Do, When They Aren’t Running Trails. I’ve been making a trilogy of my own for Running Times about a gait analysis lab in Charlottesville, VA (not far from the abode of WVMTR board member Mr. William Potts).
Here’s the video Fixing Broken Runners: Part I the evaluation
Here’s the second Fixing Broken Runners: Part II the comeback
Look for Part III to come out in two weeks at runningtimes.com
A couple notes from my time there:
Charlottesville is a fun town and there are a lot of runnable mountains between here and there. There’s even some great trail running within C’ville. Notably the Ragged Mountain Reservoir loops and the Carter Mountain trails that lead up to Monticello. A word to the wise, on the Ragged Mountain Preserve trails: running is forbidden. Yes, you are not allowed to have both feet off the ground at the same time. Loud talking is verboten, as are dogs, horses, and anything else that you can spell with the letters F-U-N. Needless to say, rather than tearing it up, shredding the trails there, I enjoyed a quiet, contemplative stroll in hushed tones with my shirt on and not even thinking about dogs or horses or any other domesticated beast.
Later on down the dusty trail,
Joel
