Running With Pepper

Finally got my new shoes in the mail, just in time for the Marathon on Sunday. Plan is to put about 20 miles on them from running and then another few from walking. Out on a nice 4 mile run where for the first 3 miles I pushed it to 7 minute miles and then backed off to an 8 minute on mile 4. Total runtime was 29 minutes. Afterwards, took Pepper for a nice 1.5 miles of walking/trotting which was interrupted by multiple pee breaks and one longer break where he did other business. New shoes felt fantastic, just as I expected. I should have never moved away from Brooks. Legs were killing me today since I helped a friend sod at 3500 sq foot yard on Friday. Wow....talk about some muscles you don't use all that much.

(Brooks Infinitis - 5.5 miles) 

Ran 5 miles tonight around the neighborhood across the street. Total run time was 40:16 for an average of 8:03 miles. Exactly the pace I wanted to run. Weather is beautiful as it was in the upper 40s for once. I absolutely love the fall weather out here since it's much cooler and humidity is pretty much non-existent. One more run this week which will probably be a short one, probably on Friday, then I'm taking off Saturday. Carb load begins tomorrow for the ract on Sunday...mmmmmm....pasta. :-) Legs are still a little sore from the mad sodding incident. I figure they will be fine by Friday and completely good by Sunday morning...I hope.

Shout out to my buddy Lucia...glad to see you're ok and beginning the healing process. Looking good! I'll drop you a line to see if you want to meet up in your hood on Friday.

 Rest of the night will be spent watching my beloved Philadelphia Phillies beat the Rays in World Series Game 1. Go Phils!!!!!!!

(Brooks Infinitis - 10.5 miles)