AM: (11 miles, 1:33:10). 30:04wu/30:07cd 12x45" w/2`recovery. Last week I got my running schedule a little late so I improvised (15 x 45"w/1` recovery). I thought last week was harder, until I did todays ... as Dean had said last week (and he is almost always right btw), with more recovery you can run the faster bits faster. I can tell these were faster because my legs were much heavier on the looooong uphill home!! Good news is that these are not cardiovascularly tough, just neuromuscularly tough ;-). It is HOT here ... yuck. 96.6F at the end of the run, low was 85F last night. I was really pissed today, there was a snake laying in the road and this truck went out of its way to hit it. I stopped some traffic (there isn't really much out there, probably 3 cars over 3 mins or so) so I could get a stick and help it get out of the road. I don't know if it is going to survive, it was hissing at me and blood was coming out of its mouth, but at least I think I gave it a chance. I don't think it was a rattle snake ... I was kind of freaked out and did not look closely. Class went ok yesterday ... this is much easier than the first semester I taught this class. Good think too, as there are 3 applied math PhD students in the class, so overall these guys are a lot better prepared than the first group was. PM: easy 4. Have a wonderful Tuesday bloggers. | 