Bret

AM - 3 miles easy with Finn in the neighborhood before church.

PM - 13 miles on the treadmill to stay out of the heat. 

AM - 5 miles with Dan and Finn in the neighborhood.  Achilles was sore/achy from the volume yesterday. 

AM - about 5.5 miles today.  Met Dan with his daughter Lily this morning at Milton HS.  It was Dan's birthday and Lily has been running to train for a half marathon this fall when she returns to school at Michigan and he's been wanting her to join for a run or two per week before she goes back to school.   She is self-conscious of running at a slower pace and likewise prefers flatter routes.  It is really not that easy to find a route to run around here that does not include some rolling hills - so multiple loops around the parking lots and athletic fields of Milton HS was the best option for her.   I arrived after they had already started, and she ran a little over 3 miles with us before concluding her run.  We then headed onto the Milton cross country course into the woods.  Very nice wood chipped trail with lots of twist and turns and ups and downs - but I was wearing the AlphaFly's and they are just not built with the necessary stability to run on trails, even if they are pretty well groomed as these were.  We exited the course after about a mile and ended up on the NorthWestern middle school track.  My Apple Watch has an interesting new feature:  it can sense when you running on a track, and the screen says "it looks like you are running on a track - is that right?" answer "yes" - and then it asks which lane are you in - and you can select 1-8.   I thought this was pretty cool.  It then switched to providing distance in miles, to providing distance in meters.   And after we completed 4 laps and were heading back to the cars, the watch display stated: "you have left the track - please confirm" - and then it switched back to displaying the distance in miles.  

AM - just about 4.75 miles with Dan and Finn on the Milton trail very early this morning as I have meetings early at the office today.  

AM - total of 5 miles - partly outside and mostly inside.   Started the run with Finn outside to get his exercise; but a line of thunderstorms was moving in, and the lightning was too close for comfort; and Finn kept trying to turn back - so we did.   I ran the remainder on the treadmill.  

AM - a little over 5 miles through North Valley - East Bluff - with another thunderstorm today on the horizon.   It appeared that I would just have enough time to complete the run before the storm rolled in when we headed out; we nearly timed it perfectly finishing in the first light rain showers in the last half mile of the run before the main storm with heavy rain and lightning arrived.  

AM - 10 miles with Greg and Finn on the Forsythe trail.  Very humid waram and close with fog for much of the run - which was probably a blessing as it would have been even more uncomfortable with the sun out.   As with all runs with Greg we started quicker than I like and we ran right at or below 8 min pace.  We were fortunate that the local running store put out a tub of water bottles with a dog bowl which Finn really needed around the halfway / turn around point.  Finn stopped abruptly around 7.5 miles - not sure if he needed a rest or was spooked by something, but after a little coaxing he resumed and just before we finished he needed a little encouraging.   He's nearly 9 years old and as a dog with a lifespan is 13-14 years I need to be careful not to overdo.