Bret

AM - 4 miles very easy/slow in the neighborhood before church.  Good level of recovery effort following yesterday's long run. 

AM - 5 miles on the Milton Trail.   Solo again today as Dan is out of town with his mom - they have called hospice and he's staying with her.   

AM - 5 miles on the treadmill.  Had an early call today and was going to be solo anyway.  Some days now, I just feel like a treadmill run fits the bill. 

AM - 5 miles solo through WC to the Grove and back.  Felt slow and clunky today.

AM - 5 miles at Milton HS - progressive tempo effort.   Loops around the permeter of the parking lots and middle school - are just about a mile; and then I do a couple of laps on the middle school track.  Last two miles were at 7:20-ish pace.   Relatively hard work today. Pleased that I can still manage to run at this pace - and at the same time a little wistful that my tempo paces from 10 or 15 years ago will never been seen again.   

AM - 6 miles easy recovery effort through Wood Valley and North Bluff - I took the trail on the way back for the first time - which added a little distance.  

AM - 10 miles total.  Did a one mile warm up while waiting for the group, and then did 9 with them.  Turned out to be just 3 of us today and Allan who is doing Boston in a few weeks, had 18-20 miles on his plan.   Venu who just did the Atlanta marathon last week, was good for 9 or 10 so, we broke off when we made our way back near Summit Hill elementary.  Probably too quick on the pacing today especially on the uphills - but I managed it well enough.  Gonna need a couple of easy recovery days.

Am - 4 very slow recovery miles before church.   

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan on the Milton Trail.  He returned yesterday evening from being with his mom in Connecticut last week.  She's in hospice care, and was not expected to survive more than a day or two, but after a week of being home from the hospital, she continues to persevere.   Spent much of the run just listening and trying to be helpful.   

AM - 5.25 miles with Dan on the trail.   Pretty significant thunderstorm overnight, but now that the trail has gravel trails that are raised a bit, the drainage is good, and we really did not have any mud to contend with on the run.   

AM - 6 miles solo doing the route out Dinsmore through North Bluff and coming back on the trail.  The gravel on the trail is causing me some achiness on the outside of my lower legs - stabilizing for the unevenness of the terrain.  May stay off it for a few days. 

AM - 5 miles on the treadmill due to storms outside this morning. 

AM - slightly less than 4.25 miles with Dan at Milton HS - ran easy to his preference so that he'd feel good enough to run longer tomorrow with the group.  

AM - 6.5 miles with the guys from downtown.  Expected everyone to go longer, but as we looped back to the cars no one was interested in extending the already easy run and instead we all went for coffee and hung out for 30 mins or so post run - which was also very nice.

AM - got an early start before church, hoping to get a longer run in - but my body was not feeling it today and decided to end it just short of 9 miles.  Nice weather the last few days, but my phone app says there's a freeze warning for tomorrow and the next day. 

AM - heavy thunderstorms with a tornado watch kept me indoors this morning.   Legs were pretty tired, so I did a very easy 4 miles on the treadmill.  

AM - just under 5.5 miles solo in the neighborhood on an unexpected cold day this late in the winter - with temps in the upper 20's - we even got some snow late yesterday afternoon.   I had to get out my cold running gear that I thought I had put away for the season.  It really was not that terrible out and the run went well. 

AM - 4.25 miles with Dan on the Milton Trail.   Hoping this is one of the last cold weather mornings for the season.   

AM - a little over 4.25 miles with Dan and his dog Rosie from his place.  Rosie kept our pace easy with several stops which seemed mostly were to sniff things - but it was fine and relaxing and Dan and I had good conversation.  

AM - 6 miles solo as Dan was out of town - ran through WC into the Grove and the cut-through to Tullamore and back.  Decent effort once I got warmed up.  Milder today - back to shorts. 

AM - a little over 8.25 miles with Greg and Venu from Summit Hill.  Because it was a small group with Greg the pace was quick - but I managed to hang-in - and thankfully he had an early game for his daughter so we ended a couple miles short of a normal Saturday run.  

AM - 4 miles very easy - recovery run effort.   Surprised that I felt this much fatigue. 

AM - 5.25 miles solo through East Bluff and back - wore the Kinvaras to give my left foot some relief from the NB Fuel Cell - left side of the foot is calloused causing some pain and it is aggravated by something inside the shoe - a design issue, I guess for me - that has only recently emerged after using this model for at least 2 years. 

AM - 5 miles solo in the WC neighborhood.  Dan's got a gimpy leg and decided to take another day off.   Ran in the NB Fuel Cells - my regular trainers today.  Minor discomfort in the left side foot but otherwise fine.  Got some new Saucony Endorphin Speed trainer arriving today that I will test out tomorrow. 

AM - a little over 5 miles at Milton HS at just below tempo pace.   Tried the new Saucony Endorphin Speed shoes - which have much better structure / stability as compared to the minimalist Kinvara's including having a nylon plate...but they seems to have the same impact/discomfort on the side of my left foot as with the NB Fuel Cells.  Decent effort this morning - pleasant temperature.  Still missing Dan who is out due to a leg injury.  

Day off due to early travel. Had to go to Florida for a funeral - early flight and late return made running an impossibility today.

AM - a little under 3.75 miles with Dan on the trail.  Mostly a jog as he's been having a leg injury issue for the past week.   The easy effort was actually pretty welcomed to me after a lengthy day of travel to and from Florida and lots of driving in between.  

AM - ran with the group in phases today.   Met Dan early at Summit Hill - actually he texted me that he was running from his house, so I parked and ran back toward his place, and we met for an easy run with him due to his leg injury - and also he brought Rosie.  We got in a little over 3 miles when Ben arrived and we had made our way back to the parking lot in time for his arrival.  Dan left with Rosie to head home and I then headed back out with Ben who was planning to run 23 as he ramps up for Boston. He just completed Tokyo a few weeks back, posting a nice PR of 2:54.  His plan for today was not to run hard, but to just log miles.  I told him I would keep him company for a portion of his run.   In sharp contrast to the pace I ran with Dan, my pace with Ben was in the 7:30 range for all but the first mile and part of the long uphill on the 5th mile.  Good conversation with him about his race experience and time in Japan.  I told him I was headed back before the normal turn around point, but I guess he wanted company, so agreed to run back with me.  When we got back to the parking lot, Greg had just arrived, and the two of them headed back out.  I am sure Ben appreciated the tag/team relay and that Greg would be able to sustain several more miles with him at that 7:30 pace.  

AM - 4 easy recovery miles before church.  Travel this afternoon.  

AM - 5.5 miles in our Nation's Capital around the Hill and looped around the Mall to the Lincoln Memorial and back to the hotel.  It's a different vibe here than in years past.   

AM - 7 miles in DC - made my way around the Lincoln Memorial and the bridge over the Potomac along the Mt Vernon trail and back over to the tidal basin to get some sunrise photos of the Cherry Blossoms.  Felt terrible the whole run - possobly nutritional or maybe the new shoes but legs felt like lead.   Nice morning though.