Go, you chicken fat, go away!

I rode my bike to work.

I rode my bike home.

What's this?  Did Burt run today?  Why yes I did.  My back felt all right.  The only real problem was the fact that I ate dinner at 10pm, went to bed at midnight, and got up at 5am.  I felt pukalicious.

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5 mile bike ride to and from work.

I'm not sure on the exact distance since I forgot my Garmin at home.  And I won't be able to trace it out on MapMyRun because I have no idea which way we went.  But I met up with my Ragnar team this evening.  Well, only half of us showed up, but that's a great showing for a Ragnar team get together.  We went to Las Sendas in Northeast Mesa.  It's a rich man's community.  One of my first jobs in civil engineering was doing single family residence custom lot grading and drainage plans.  I probably did about 20 of them for this area.

I saw another former Ragnar teammate before we started.  He was with his buddy.  I told them this was my new Ragnar team and we are Running 4 Nie.  His buddy knew about Nie Nie.  I didn't know how far everyone wanted to run.  I thought maybe three or four.  Turns out they were all pretty hardcore and wanted to run 8.  I haven't ran that far in a dog's age.  But I needed to. 

It was about 7:45 when we started, but it was as hot as an oven.  I drank a little water before and figured I'd better save some for when I was done.  We all started running, but everyone was running at their own pace, so I stuck with a girl that was running in the middle.  She was glad I did because she was getting a side stitch and I helped push her through it.  There were some nice mild hills which I hope is good Wasatch Back training.

The highlight of the evening was after we were done and talking in the parking lot.  A field mouse ran out from under my truck right towards two of the girls.  They screamed.

I had a little bit of work I still needed to get done today so I ran to my office.  It was 10:30am and about 80 degrees out.  I took my bike route up until I reached the canal.  Then I ran down the canal to Southern.  I saw 4 ducks and 1 turtle.

Time - 21:31 (avg. pace 8:37)

Splits - 8:36, 8:41, 4:15 for 0.5 (8:31 pace)

When I finished working I texted my wife to tell her I was heading back.  She told me nobody was home.  I asked if I was locked out of the house, and she said yep.  So I stayed at work for a while longer and broke my weekly record on Bejeweled Blitz.

I took the same route on the way home.  It was about 82 degrees out at 4pm.  I don't know why it's so nice out today, but I'll take it.  I saw the same 4 ducks in the canal.  I also saw a guy sitting on the side of the bank fishing.  He noticed the Pat Tillman T-shirt I was wearing and told me he had ran the same race.  We talked for a while as he chewed on his tobacco and I explained how it was all right to fish in this canal but not the one just east of it.  Just as I was starting to get bored his phone rang.  Saved by the bell.

Time - 20:48 (avg. pace 8:20)

Splits - 8:30, 8:14, 4:05 for 0.5 (8:09 pace)