Phillyfit Welcomes in the New Year in Style!

What a great day for all of us to get out there and excercise. I think we had close to 20 or more folks out on the trails today.
I ran with Pete's trail group. (Sorry for the confusion all. We had originally planned to meet together to start but it didn't work out that way). In the trail group we had: Pete and I, Marjorie and Jeff, John T and John C, the Smileys, Tom S, Gabby, Sue and her friend Dan. Upon returning to my car I found a note from Sammy who missed us by mere minutes due to alarm failures. She ran the loop. After the trail run, John T and I went over to Betzwood to do a few more and we saw Mel, and Sherry, and Dan and I think I saw Gina. After running at Betzwood I saw Roy on his bike and he said he was with Brian. I know there were likely a few more at Betzwood before we got there as well. Yay Phillyfit! I hope you all had fun.

I'd like to say that trail running was incredibly fun. I've done very little in my running career (short as it is) but I intend to do more. We ran over and under fallen trees, through the leaves and up and down the banks of the river. At one point we went over the train tracks and crossed over a streamlet that was a bit wide for short legged people. I'm glad I wore old shoes as my toes did get wet. We ran across frozen ground and some not so frozen. We saw ice lining the little streamlets. My legs are still buzzed (and we finished for over 2 hours now).

I'm happy to say that no one was injured and Jeff gets the prize for most acrobatic save. I was sure we were going to be carrying him back. And you should have seen Pete pushing obstacles out of the way with his feet without missing a step. It was like watching a mountain goat!

Conversation is not easy on these runs because we were single file most of the way - but it was not impossible.Here are some things I heard (paraphrased a bit)

"I feel like a kid again"
"That's not the significant hill" "It's not?????!!!!!"
"Ya know I said this trail was a 2 on Pete's adventure scale (out of 10) but maybe it's really a 3" (NOW he tells us)
"Healthy advise from me is highly suspect" said of course by the guy who writes "I'm Fat Blogging"
"I think running some during the week might be a good idea"

Keep smiling and keep moving folks. That's what it's all about.