Failures require the time to be studied

Beautiful day today! Met up with Kallen at my place around noon and I decided to show him what I call the "Hood Run". We ran though the neighborhoods around Ruskin Highschool and ended out on Longview road. Temps were warm enough we got the chance to run w/o our shirts! What a glorious feeling that was! XD  On our way back through the "Hood" we got to see 1 dug deal, several dead animals rotting in the streets, and got some really funny looks as 2 really really white guys ran through the streets.  Needless to say, the "Hood" run didn't dissapoint.  Half mile walk with the dog to end the day off. 

I think I have finally found my new club running team.  Though a piece of my heart will always be with the St. George running center club, it is time to plant some roots here. Kallen joined up with me at Shawnee Mission East track to meet this new running club. We were warmly welcomed and informed of our work out. 12X400's 100M active recovery on the quarters.

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I was really pleased with the work out. I was really nervous on how I would do since I haven't had a real workout in a while. It was nice to run on a dark track, it almost made it seem like we were going 10 times faster than we really were.  Satisfied with the times, I had to open it up on the last one just to see what I could do. Really excited to work out with my new club team "City of Fountains Running Club"

Started my afternoon run from the office downtown and headed toward the last section of the Trolly Track Trail that i have yet to discover.  I wasn't dissapointed, the trail "ends" (but this is really where i started) at UMKC and goes along the side of the campus through this cute little nieghborhood called brookside. Just a nice peaceful trail to run on. However, today was not very peaceful.  Although my legs felt surpisingly good considering yesterdays workout was the first REAL work out I have done since college, the wind was killer cold. I do admidt that there is some preperation that should have been taken on my part but all I saw was that it said 43 outside.  The first half was very nice but the whole second half I had essentially small iceciles stabbing into my face.  All in all it was still a nice run. 

Today Kallen and I explored the single track trails at swope park. This trail gave me some fond memories of the mountain trails in utah, although these were at 1000 ft. elevation not 9000 ft. We got some what lost on the winding trail but eventually found our way back.  I was really surprised at how far the trails extend through the park. we probably ran just over half of the trails there. I look forward to exploring more next week.