Same Time, Same Channel

Easy run.

6:04 am, 65° F, 68% humidity, winds calm, overcast, a wee tiny bit of rain.

I had to give up my Monday's running with Lindsay so that Carly can run with Lindsay on Mondays. Carly refuses to run before 7:00 and Lindsay has the flexibility to go later on Mondays. Lindsay needs to go earlier on Fridays, so we'll run together then. Lindsay is just popular I guess.

I should have done the Shred today, but it's the first day of school for my daughter and I've got to take extra time this morning to take her and her piles of school supplies over to the school this morning. Two of my boys start school tomorrow, but I'll just kick them out the door and make them walk. My oldest boy leaves for college a week from Thursday.

AP: 9:15. Splits: 9:44, 9:33, 9:19, 9:03, 9:02, 8:53, 0.1 @ 9:00.

Easy run.

5:46 am, 61° F, 69% humidity, wind 9 SSE.

I just kind of wandered around this morning and made up a new route. Of course it was bits and pieces of routes I  regularly run put together in a different way. There are not that many different places I can run when I run from home.

I thought about running a little longer today but I wanted to be home before my boys left for school with it being their first day of school and all. Actually, I always need to be home before they leave, but I can cut it closer than I did today.

AP: 9:19. Splits: 9;49, 9:25, 9:21, 9:17, 9:08, 8:58, 0.25 @ 9:08.

Easy run + level 2 Shred.

6:08 am, 66°, 50% humidity, wind 9 S.

I had to cut my run just a little short because I was late getting out the door. But it's good that I got out the door at all because I considered bagging it. I have to be home by 7:00, so if I want to run longer than about 6 miles, I need to start getting up earlier. I should probably try to get home by 6:45 if I'm going to do the Shred because the rest of my morning is really rushed if I don't start the Shred until 7:00.

AP: 9:20. Splits: 10:02, 9:29, 9:00, 9:13, 9:10, 0.5 @ 8:55.

GA run.

6:12 am, 66° F, 40% humidity, wind 10 SSE.

I was late getting out the door again this morning, but rather than cutting my run short, I ran past 7:00. I can still do that because my oldest doesn't go away to college until next Thursday, so he's home with the little one if I'm late getting in. I'll have to do better at getting up early starting next Thursday.

I took a different route this morning. I did a loop that went from Colorado Blvd to County Line Road on University for the second mile and that's a nice downhill stretch. I spent the rest of the run getting back up to the elevation I started at, but it was intermittent and gradual and not too bad. The Garmin says about 600 ft of elevation gain/loss on this route. I like this route. I even got to run through a bunch of really big sprinklers that got me quite wet. The only problem with this route is that I have to cross Colorado Blvd twice, and so I waste some time waiting for stop lights.

I'm calling this a GA run instead of an easy run because I pushed the pace a little bit.

AP: 9:01. Splits: 10:07, 9:06, 9:03, 8:34, 8:44, 8:40, 0.2 @ 8:17.

Easy run + level 2 Shred.

5:53 AM, 55° F, 58% humidity, wind 3 SSE.

It was really nice weather for running this morning, though a little cooler would have been great too. I arranged to meet Lindsay 10 minutes earlier than we've done in the past, but then I didn't get out my door quite early enough. I like to give myself 20 minutes to get to her house, but I only had 12 minutes this morning, so I had to take a shorter route than I usually take. I guess about 11 or 12 minutes is the minimum time to get to her house because I took the shortest available route this morning.

I've got a busy day today, but what else is new? I will try to check people's blogs one of these days. I'm sorry I've been such a slacker in that regard.

AP: 9:41. Splits: 9:43, 9;31, 9:53, 9;42, 9:52, 9:23.

Progression run.

7:06 am, 59° F, 62% humidity, wind 2 NNE.

Carly moved our Saturday Highline Canal Trail meeting time up to 7:00, which is good. I like to sleep in on Saturdays, but it's good to get up and get the run done relatively early while it's cool and shady on the trail. Carly brought two friends today, so there were four of us running together. We did 5 miles together and then I did three more on my own. I'm calling this a progression run because I sped up after I left the group and got progressively faster until the end of the run, with the last mile qualifying for my "fast mile" designation.

AP: 8:59. Splits: 9:35, 9:04, 9:19, 9:03, 9:08, 8:47, 8:41, 8:18.