Bret

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.