newbie

So today I ran the Monte vista trailhead to old salmon falls . I set a mellow pace for my friend Rhianon. She had never run a real trail let alone 5 miles so I mixed it up with a run walk pace.It took a little less than an hour.

newbie

mon jan29-Took a friend of mine on her first "real"run.We started at the bottom of the Auburn Ravine and took the stage coach grade all the way up and watched the sun set.It was all up hill on the way in so we moved fast on the way out.

Quickie

Jan 27th-Went out for a quick run on my hill loop last night after work. Took about 1/2 hour.

Went for a quick run,about 50 minutes or so.
Ran out to the college on the creek trails.

When I got home I sat down to have a snack. The next thing I know Im waking up an hour later in my big chair. I think my day was a little longer than I thought!!!

quickie

Stopped by the gym and bouldered for an hour and a half. Just pulling down on all sorts of weird problems. Thats it.

Getting lost 1/4 mile from the trail head,The rebirth of true love,the first run in a while music movies and one very bright light.

Ok to begin with, Tuesday jan-23rd

I took my friend snowshoeing for her first time in the backcountry around Carson Pass (near Lake Tahoe).
We started at the red lake trail head and made fast progress quickly making it to the prominent ridge before red lake peak proper. I noticed the snow up higher on the peak seemed thin and generally shitty. Seeing as how I brought my board, I wanted to ride a little bit, so we checked out a couple very proud looking little bowls. One of them had a kind of a funky cornice on top perched above this weird looking kind of snow slab, a little steeper than 40 degrees. We found a nice ridge parallel to the bowl in which we set her up(my friend) to spot me. After dropping in I soon realized the snow was chalky and icey. While checking my edge ,I actually slid out when I hit some bad snow and quickly slid past it on my ass. I got back up and was even able to make a couple turns before I hit tree line. We hooked back up at the gull where the two ridges and bowl lead down into. So I gave my friend one more set of quick directions back to the trailhead and proceeded to ride out the rest of the way.At one point I got really off route took off my board and snowshoed the rest of the way out all the while thinking my friend should easily already be back at the jeep.

Well to my surprise she wasnt.So I ditched my board thinned out my pack and literally ran up two of the main gullys looking for her and then descending a third and final seperate gully.
Nothing I headed back down to the jeep. Like magic she was there.

Turns out she decided not to listen to the directions I gave by going the complete opposite direction and tried to back track and ended up some how passing over the trail 3 minutes from the trail head and ending up finding her way down to the road a quarter mile from the trail head.
We still had fun.I will never let my buddy that far out of my sight. I guess I've just grown accustomed to traveling in the backcountry alone and doing my own thing.

January 24th wed-

Ok so after work I headed home grabbed my running shtuff and Headed out toward the river for a run. I ran down to the river Planning only to run for 30 min. Fortunately I was wearing my warmups and brought my pack, a bottle, some,gloves and one of my new lights and of course my mp3 player, It's like my running shoes it always comes with me weather I listren to it or just put it in my pocket. Generally I dont use a light when I run at night. Even when on a trail. Although I will turn the light on if it's cloudy or the Trees happen to be really thick where i'm running. I just find it easier and more enjoyable without a light on all the time just so long as I can see the trail :) Once my eyes adjust I can see more than just whats encompassed by the glow of my head lamp or hand held.
Any way I cruised along the river for a while, like 30 minutes and watched the sun go down. The trees got close to the trail but I still didnt seem to need my light After running for a while longer I turned around bummed out I didnt get to use my new light, so just before I started up the trail back to the road I switched my light on anyway. That lil sucker is bright! It's a princeton blast. It's a little bigger than my thumb and has a clip so you can clip it to your hat, It's waterproof and costs about 10 bucks. I plan on getting some cordage and running it through the eyelit on the back of the flashlight that way I can sling it to my wrist. I generally never wear lights on my head, It seems to give me tunnel vision. That being said the exceptions to that are when Im climbing At night or anytime when I need use of my hands. Eating , drinking, running, and messing with my mp3 player at the same time is a bit difficult while trying to hold a light as well. Good little run of about an hour.

Ok so after that I headed to the used music store picked up some 10,000 maniacs and r.e.m. While checking out I noticed a flier for a coffee house. I used to go to this coffee house but it closed like 2 years ago. Apparently they have reopend. So I went down town to check out the rebirth of the new/ old True Love coffee house. New location same atomosphere and still open til midnight. Local art still hangs from the walls and it happened to be open mic night. Now they have a seperate room/ area for music and a huge patio. Well so thats that. Kind of a fast paced day

Approaching dirty 30,Slighlty messy divorces,emotions in general

Ok being as I dont have normal sleeping habits,My friends and family know its ok to call me at almost anytime and Ill probly answer if my phone is near.

That being said my ex-wife in progress(I was walked out on in August just a couple days before my birthday.So after almost no contact and no explanation for over a month ,In september I filed for divorce.) texts me @ 4am. The divorce is finalized in March. It should also be noted that All of the money ... and I mean all of the bill money was taken for 2 months, I was told the bills were paid. So I had to take all of my savings to pay the bills,(rent,cars everything). I thought I was going to be homeless and now 6 months later Im still getting caught up and am straddled with all the bills and secret debts incurred by her(an even longer story).
Now that you are officially caught up...back to the 4am text -So apparently Im to blame for everything,of course thats the way it goes I suppose. As of last night She has lost her job and wrecked her car and I feel horrible. Also fileing for bankcruptcy?With her its tough to know what to beleive.
I know enough not to help. I would get caught in her undertow.
It hurts watching someone you love self destruct and undo everything the two of you worked so hard toward.
Not just money,personal growth, all of that undone and the regression to old behavior.
It's just fucked.

Insomnia? Trying to type with sparring gloves....

So this is it.
An insomniac typing in sparring gloves @4am inbetween water breaks. I need to Start my running routine again.My sleeping has been screwd up.Tonight I hit the heavy bag/speed bag shadow box,pushups pullups squats all in about an hour.