Bret

AM - 7 miles on the treadmill.  Wind chills at -3 and snow and ice kept me from wanting to venture outside today.   We got maybe an inch of accumulation of snow but this area does not have a whole lot of public works to treat roads or sidewalks for those rare conditions - so it seemed safer and more comfortable indoors.  

AM - between 4.75 and 5 mils this morning with Dan and Rosie on the trail.  Temperature was right at 20 degrees - but not too windy.  Dan had been out of town to see his mother who is having some medical/health issues and so we caught up today and he spent a long time processing / discussing it with me.   

AM - 4.5 miles early with Dan in the neighborhood ahead of an early flight to Orlando for work.  Still the 20's but not quite as cold.   Return tomorrow evening so I will get a run in some shorts weather for a day.   

AM - 5 miles in Orlando at the airport.   My company had a sales conference at the Hyatt Regency which is at the airport in Orlando.  When I checked in I asked the desk if they had any running trails or routes as some hotels do and so they told me about a running track on the roof of the parking garage which also the helicopter pad.  So, I went up there at 5:30 am, and it was dark and only lit up with the red landing lamps for the helicopter pad.  From what I could tell there may have been a "track" at one time with a lane painted on the surface around a wider perimeter of the pad but it was well faded and parts of it were blocked by temporary construction fencing on a couple of sides - at any rate, I found my way around at least a larger loop than just the helipad which worked out to be about 6 laps to a mile - and though I considered bailing and going either downstairs to the treadmill in the gym or figuring out a run on the roadways leading up to the airport, I kept going instead on the circuit until I reached 5 miles.  Although I could not in good conscience endorse this as a good option for running for anyone staying there, it is an option, and one that made for a converstaion or two with my colleagues.  

AM - 5 miles solo on the Nix road route.  Cold with some spitting snow at times.  Felt a little slow and clunky particularly on the hills.

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan on the Milton Trail.  Good to catch up with him.  He shared updates on his mom's health situation and seems to be in a better place.   Cold again today in the mid 20's.  I am headed to WV to be with Tracy and her parents for the weekend.  Significantly colder there with lots of snow on the ground.  May need to consider alternatives to running outside this weekend. 

AM - 10 miles on the gym treadmill in WV.  Very cold (feels like 0) with lots of snow already on the ground for the last couple of weeks, but there was snow and freezing rain overnight and the option of running indoors made sense.  Bought a weekend pass and it is open 24 hours.

AM - 6.5 miles on the treadmill at the gym in WV - with it being 0 degrees outside and quite icy and slippery - I opted again to stay indoors.  Heading home tomorrow, but will likely do another treadmill run given the forecast is not much different tomorrow.  

AM - a little over 5 miles on the treadmill at the gym in WV.  Outside temp was 1.  Leaving later today for some warmer temps at home.  

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan on the Milton Trail back at home.  Much more seasonal temps in the high 30's.  Good to catch up after being away for a long weekend to be with Tracy's parents in WV.

AM - 4.5 miles with Dan through Crabapple starting at Milton HS.  Much warmer today in the upper 50's with a light rain.  Felt crappy, weak and clunky - but ended up running about the same pace as yesterday, which was on the faster end of most of my training runs with Dan.   

AM - 5.25 miles with Dan on the trail - which is now officially re-opened from the work they did for the phase 2 construction work.  We've been running on it pretty much the whole time of the contractor work, but now there are no longer any areas blocked-off and all of the heavy equipment is now removed.  The newer area looks very nice with pleasing landscaping, boardwalk bridges and stable gravel pathways.   They extended the trail surface all the way through the earlier phase behind my property which was sorely needed, but did not really do much in the way of improving the landscaping which was a little disappointing.   Nevertheless overall even though long overdue, its a very nice improvement to this amenity.  We can now do a full loop instead of an out and back, but that's only about 2.25 miles for one loop starting and stopping at the clubhouse.  We don't usually do that but instead re-track back before heading up to the clubhouse and instead then do the south woods which has not yet been cleaned up or improved or adverstised for official use, but doing that trail route gives us a little over 5 miles.    

AM - 5.25 miles solo in the neighborhood.  Dan was cross training this morning to give his knee a rest before a longer run tomorrow.   Seasonably cold - right around freezing today.  Slow start as always - even slower when running solo - got warmed up into a low 8 min pace around mile 2.5 to 3 and cruised in.  Takes the old body and mind a little longer on colder mornings to get going. 

AM - total of just about 10 miles with a couple of the guys - we did a tour of Milton and Alpharetta.  Darryl and I got there a little early and did a short warm up while waiting and then connected with Greg after a couple of other guys canceled. We had an encounter with an owl on the road near a busy intersection in which a fairly good sized owl was sitting on the road in a left turn lane.   We could not tell if it was injured and two of the guys attempted to coax it out of the road - but the bird really was not interested in moving until a police vehicle happened by, and then suddenly it flew away - with no apparent injury - and we all felt good about it not getting run-over by a passing car.   Oh and the run was faster than it should have been but good all the same.

AM - 6.25 miles on the treadmill because it was cold and raining outside this morning.  

AM - a little over 5 miles this morning in WC with Dan.  He's headed back to CT to see his mom who is back in the hospital and not doing well.  Spent a good amount of time chatting about that with him.  Surprisingly fairly quick pace today - as the weather damp and foggy but in the upper 40's - so not too cool and pleasant for running and talking. 

AM - 5.5 miles solo today - went out on the finally reopened trail and out through the East Bluff neighborhood and came back by the clubhouse for a full loop.  Colder today in the upper 30's - decent pace again today.  

AM - 5 miles on the Nix road route with a little variation near the end from my norm.  

AM - 3.5 miles in WC - early start and shorter run due to an early meeting at the office today. 

AM - 5.25 miles on the trail.  Unseasonably warm.  Ended up shirtless.  

AM - just under 9.5 miles this morning solo.  Rainy at times - decided not to meet up with the guys - several were out of town or unavailable and I was feeling a bit tired the last two or three days.   My first 3 miles were really slow - but intentionally just allowing myself to run to feel - so like 10 to 11 min pace.   Then without even really trying around 3 miles I started running mid 8's with a couple of sub 8's but all completely relaxed.  Good feel run today.

AM - 3.25 easy miles on the treadmill.  Temperature dropped 35 degrees overnight from yesterday and it was super windy too; so I opted for an indoor run. 

AM - 5 miles on the treadmill.  Dan said he was not feeling well, and with the "feels like" of 11 degrees outside today, I stayed indoors. 

AM - just under 5 miles on the trail with Dan.  Temps were same or a little colder than yesterday - but we had not run together in over a week with him out of town for his mom.  Good to catch up.  Pace was considerably faster than we normally run on the trail - not too sure why - perhaps it was because he did not bring his dog today.  

AM - 4.5 miles with Dan starting from his house.  Was surprised to see a pretty decent pace per mile on my watch after we finished, especially since it seemed just like a normal pace and conversational the whole time.  

AM - 5 miles solo on the Nix route.  Had to do an early start as I have a meeting at the office before 8 today.  Pushed a little on this one to replicate yesterday's pace - which was close.  

AM - 4.5 miles with Dan starting from Milton HS and running through Crabapple at a much easier pace than I had run in the last few days.  Legs were feeling a little stressed yesterday.   Good run today and good conversation. 

AM - 12.25 miles solo today.  Ben is doing Tokyo and Venu is doing the Atlanta marathon tomorrow.  Darryl's got a medical restriction and Dan is headed back to CT to move his mom to hospice.   Never connected with Greg and anyway I was not feeling up to a pace that he usually goes.  This was a decent mid effort longer distance than my normal long runs of late.  Cloudy dreary cool morning that I enjoyed nonetheless all by my lonesome.