Easy Eight on the MacArthur Ranch Road loop.
5:24 am, 31°F, 67% humidity, winds calm. It snowed very lightly for about one minute during my run. I really started out slowly this morning and it took me quite a while to get going, but it turned into an unintentional easy progression run. AP: 9:46. Splits: 10:38, 10:32, 10:10, 9:58, 9:31, 9:15, 9:13, 8:56. I had a little pain in my right shin for the first couple of miles, but then it went away.
I don't think my son is going to run the Turkey Day 5K this Thursday because he's sick with a sore throat and bad cough. We kept him home from church yesterday and I'm going to keep him home from school today. He had an extraordinarily busy week last week rehearsing and then playing in the orhcestra for a play his school was doing. I guess it was more than his body could handle. I was going to drive to seminary today and have the other guy drive tomorrow (the kids are off school Wed-Fri this week), but the other guy came up to me at church yesterday and said that he wanted to drive both days this week and furthermore, he wants to drive 3 days/week all the time. He says that having to drive to seminary forces him to get up and gives him enough time to go to the gym after the seminary drop-off, but when he doesn't drive to seminary he sleeps in and misses the gym. I'm happy to let him drive 3 days/week because I run regardless of whether I'm driving, but I can either run longer or head out slightly later on the days I don't have to drive to seminary. I just noticed something when I went to the website to check the start time of this Thursday's race. Here's the URL: http://www.highlandsranchchamber.org/td5k/. In the picture on the main page, right in the lower-left corner, in the purple, is my running friend Michelle #1 and I'm right behind her looking dorky in a light blue hat and a dark blue hoody. The picture is from last year's race.
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