An Attempt at Trail Running
For those of you who know me, you know I am a hiker. I am not a runner. Well, at least not anymore. When I was in High School and many years after that up until 5 years ago I was a runner. About 5 years ago I started developing shin splints and just enjoyed hiking way more. I am done with my 4000 Footers and now I need new personal goals, anything but a list. I need some time away from hiking another list for a while. Josh had no interest in hiking the 4k's but since he had already got a few on previous hikes with myself now he is pushing to finish. I am happy to do it with him, so we compromised. I know he enjoys trail running more than hiking so we decided to take our first trail run together. Overall, Josh is a much stronger runner than I am and I am a much stronger hiker than he is. The first one I thought of that we could try and do in the time frame we had to do it was the Hancock Loop. It's only 25 minutes from our house and fairly flat for a good portion of it. Not