3:40 PM - Partly cloudy. Temps in the mid 60s. Ran at the Taconic High School track today in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Came to visit Emmy after work early this morning at about 1am and she started her new job last week so she had work today from 4pm to 9pm. After she left for work I decided to head over to her old high school to jog at the track. It was a great run and I felt awesome. Stretched before the run, and then after I finished on the track, before the .4 mile cool down to the car.
Only scary part. About at mile 3, a guy comes screeching into the turnoff by the parking lot in a blue sports car. Gets out and I see he is wearing a "do-rag" and wearing jeans that are too baggy and about 4 sizes too big for him. His what I gathered to be girlfriend was walking across the football field and he started yelling and using really inappropriate language making a huge scene about how she didn't have his permission to be here. It was wrong on so many levels, but I knew me even looking wrongly in his direction could start down a path I did not really care to. Well he ended up throwing a 50-gallon metal garbage can into a portapotty, which then richocheted off it and hit his own car, after which he started slamming both of his hands on the hood of it. It was not a pretty picture, and I felt bad for these three older ladies that had been walking the track. They were really taken aback by it, as I think we all were. The girl ended up going home with him. I just hope she's okay!
Didn't have my Garmin :(. So I ran in a lane I already knew the splits for. Did 22 laps in Lane #6 (11 laps = 3 miles). My splits for the run:
- Miles 1, 2, 3 - 26:18 (8:46 / mi)
- Miles 4,5, 6 - 25:55 (8:33/ mi)
- Cooldown .4 mi - 3:50 (9:35 pace)
*Note: I realized that I went a little faster than I had thought I was going to go going into the run. But between 1. not having my Garmin and 2. the incident with the thrown garbage can and 3. listening to an iPod for the first time in a long time on a jog, I ended up going a little fast. But this perhaps was a good thing. I had ZERO Pain and I stretched nicely after the track run before jogging back to the car. Tomorrow will be a day off. Hopefully I will go for a short hike though with Emmy! Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday (even though I have my own convictions against celebrating someone like Columbus; this holiday is wrong on so many levels)
Total Time: 56:03 Total Distance: 6.4 mi Average Pace: 8:45*
* - I will be taking it easy the rest of the week as well. Today was a very good workout. Now going to tack on easy 9-10 minute paced miles to reach my short term goal of a 20 mile week! | 
