paul·a·ver

I was taking stairs a little slowly and sideways when I got up this morning after yesterday’s trail run.

Is it possible to finish a very strenuous 15 mile trail run on a base of zero miles? Yes.

Tomorrow, I’m registered to run the Cherokee Road Runners’ Louisville Lovin the Hills trail run, 15 miles (the big run is actually a 50K) of single track with rocks, roots, and runoff in local Jefferson Memorial Forest.

I am feeling like an under-cooked dinner roll.

“You’re kinda prone to extreme activities aren’t you?” The surgeon asks. I’ve come in for my follow up after gallbladder removal and umbilical hernia repair, and he’s just green-lighted me for “aerobic activities,” but I want specifics.