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Training Log – Week of August 17th 2026

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My training log for the week of August 17th 2026, started with a change-of-pace hike in the Sandia Mountain foothills. With the brutally hot summer that we (and so many other parts of the country) are having, I took advantage of a cooler morning to take my daughter’s dog on a short adventure.

Monday August 17th, 2026

Maggie the Dog and I parked at a grocery store in the foothills and started our hike east. I was alert for bears since there have been so many sightings lately, but we didn’t see any wildlife other than some beautifully singing birds.

My training log for the week of August 17th 2026 started with a change of pace hike in the Sandia Mountain foothills.

Tuesday August 18th, 2026

My daughter’s dog Maggie stayed another day because she worked another shift at the hospital. Maggie and I made the most of it by doing another hike in another part of the foothills.

AUTHOR

Rich Dafter
Prior to May 1985, I was super fit and super healthy, routinely running between 50 to 70 miles a week. Between March 16th and May 5th 1985, I ran 34:32 for 10K, 57:46 for 10 miles, 53:20 for 15K, 27:38 for 5 miles and 16:26 for 5K. I was 34 years old. On May 17, 1985, at around 5:00 PM on a Friday night, I was driving home with my then five year old daughter and we hit a van broadside. The van had been stopped in the left lane of a four lane road with its left blinker on and unexpectedly made a right turn out of the left lane directly in front of us. That accident, although we both survived, in an instant, ruined my health and changed my life. On Sunday, May 19th, I ran the Midland Run 15K (which I had run and eventually would run or try to run, 13 years in a row) and ran 53:03.

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