Polar Princess – Sanitas

Happy Friday all!

QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He understood that modeling the incoherent and vertiginous matter of which dreams are composed was the most difficult task that a man could undertake, even though he should penetrate all the enigmas of a superior and inferior order; much more difficult than weaving a rope out of sand or coining the faceless wind.”
~Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins

TRAINING
Feeling rather squirrelly after a day in the office……I head out to the Sanitas trail – headlamp switched on – tunes blaring….loud, louder, freakin’ L-O-U-D. Preferring always to FEEL rather than hear the music, I crank up the volume until my eyes bleed.

Stealing away anonymously along the familiar trail, there are stretches of ice, and LOTS of MUD. I LOVE MUD!!!! Overheated in my guide pants and lightweight polypro shirt – I fall into a sweaty cadence of stealth trail dancing/running.

One lap on Sanitas is about 3.1 miles with a bit more than 1,300 feet of elevation gain. I move purposefully, up, up, up…..stopping at the top to take in the illumination of the moon and stars. City lights dot the landscape to the East and I wonder:
What do people do in the evenings?
Are they having fun?
On the descent, short sections of luge-like ice contort my body into a violently choreographed dance. Once past these spicy trail segments, my body returns to its familiar cadence, left, right, left, right…

PICS
http://s90.photobucket.com/albums/k248/jillywray/Sanitas_012507/

Polar Princess – over and out.