Our friends came over then we all drove out to Riverside State Park for the 5k run. The race has 4 distances and I have done all but the 50k before. Now, I haven't actually gone for a run in probably close to 2 years but I have gotten a shit ton of vert in hiking for flying. That doesn't exactly do much for the cardio though.

I stood near the front when the race started and went out a bit too fast, trying to keep a 9 or 10 minute mile pace I was actually at a 7:30 pace, WAY too fast. I walked twice in the first mile and my lungs felt like a vice was squeezing them as I gasped for air.

The 2nd mile I actually began to feel kinda warmed up, my legs weren't on fire, my lungs opened up, and I could maintain an about 10 minute mile pace. I walked 3 times in the 2nd mile but my cadence was still 140+ steps per min.

The last mile is along the river which is the nicest part of the trail but I still found myself power hiking 5 times. I managed to run the last bit into the finish for a time of 32 minutes. Not too bad for ZERO training.

I was destroyed after the run and staggered my way back to the car where it took me a good 20 minutes to cool down and calm down.

Amazingly I got 43rd overall and 7th in my age group.

We all headed back to the house and our friends hung out for the day. I watched Schindler win the PDC tournament and while it was on this butterfly landed on the bear airing out on the deck.

With so many potatoes to still plant I had to till the pole garden area. Though no need for the poles this year as there will only be spuds grown here. Even opening the 5th row again.

The irrigation lines got stretched and placed then the plastic got flipped to clean it off of debris before going over the lines. I got the fence up around it and am not needing the chainlink since the spuds will be underground and if the birds get in there won't be much for them.

A number of people from the club were in Chewelah flying in the afternoon but there were some good storms building up in the region. They got lucky that the systems skimmed around the flying sites.

That big dark mas was heading right for us and as it got closer the gust front hit but then the thing dissipated just to the west of us and never dropped drip on us.

My body was trashed so I took a muscle relaxer and went to bed early.

Today I'm still super sore but have too much to do. I'll get the boys to school in a bit, then will be in the garden most of the day planting 250+ potatoes and 8 or 10 rows of seeds still. The grass is needing cutting in the yard, I'll install the 2m antenna in the sled, get the greenhouse setup and planted, pick J up from running club in the afternoon, and hopefully pay for my new wing that is in Seattle.

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