In my last post I ranted endlessly about how much I thought I was going to dislike the loops in the Summer Round Up 12k...turns out they weren't that bad. It was actually a pretty fast course in general.

However, this was a fairly crappy race for me for other reasons. My lower back was killing me! Like "sweet baby jee...mother of Mary" killing me! I stupidly did some heavy weighted lunges a few days prior…

( ^^ Deftones song reference for all you non-rockers reading this ;p )

Hooray! Hooray! Summer Round Up is this weekend! Summer Round  Up has always been one of my favorite summer races! It is more or less what turned me on to trail running! I ran my first Summer Round Up 4 years ago, just a few months after ACL surgery...probably not the smartest thing…