run, run, run

Boise, ID 6:15 am

Pace: 7:13

Perfect weather this morning. Lots of other runners out. I ran 7 with Randy and then did another 3 on my own, bringing the avg. pace down by a couple of seconds to get me to marathon goal pace.

Boise, ID 6:45 am

Pace: 7:14

Cloverdale to Executive to Maple Grove to McMillian to Cloverdale.

Kennewick, WA 6:15 am

Pace: 7:20ish

Ran from my sister's place in Kennewick Park down Steptoe to the river, up Edison and back through Vista Field. Nice weather this morning, about 60 with a little bit of cloud cover in the Eastern sky. Some good hill work coming up out of the park and by the airport. I paused my watch at a corner and then forgot to turn it back on again until 2 miles later, so I'm not sure what my overall pace was, but probably better than 7:20.

Kennewick, WA 6:30 am

Pace: 7:30

I ran a little farther than I had planned. I went down the hill to the Richland Wye and across the Yakima river to Richland, and came back along Columbia Park Trail, Leslie and Gage. Some good hills in there. At one point I was following an irrigation canal, but it turned into an aquaduct that crossed a gulch with no way to cross, so I had to backtrack. Then I stopped at a gas station to get a Gatorade, but the gas station didn't even have a convenience store, just an Esspresso bar. So it stunk like coffee and after waiting for a long time just to buy a bottle of water I gave up and left. Now I'm sleepy.

Kennewick, WA 5:45am

Pace: 7:34

Got up early and ran down 4th street, up Union to 10th, down hwy 396 and back on 4th. It was a nice run, but I was feeling kind of fatigued from the week. Didn't worry too much about my pace and even cut it short a mile. I'm taking tomorrow off because we're going home and if I were to get up early and run before the drive I would probably fall asleep and kill all of us. So I will sleep in and live to run another day.