run, run, run

Houston, TX 6:00 am

Pace: 8:49

My first time out since the softball injury. I went for an easy 3.5 miler from the hotel around Reliant Stadium and the Astrodome. I could still feel the hamstring, but it never reached the point where I would call it pain. I'll continue to take it easy this week.

When I was 12 my family spent a summer in Rigby, Idaho waiting for my grandmother to die. On one afternoon I was particularly bored, so my mom took me to Idaho Falls and dropped me off at the movie theater so I could see Bad News Bears Breaking Training. I remember thinking how cool the Astrodome was and how I'd like to see it someday.

This morning as I was running around the Dome I felt like Tanner Boyle. I wanted to start chanting "Let them play, Let them play, Let them play." I tried to listen for the ghosts of Bum Phillips and Earl Campbell, but I had my iPod on and I'm pretty sure Earl Campbell isn't dead yet. 

Houston, TX 7:30pm

Pace: 8:39

I didn't get up in the morning so I went for an evening run down something called a Bray's Bayou. It's some kind of a cement river or canal -- or the place where the water goes when the locals flush their toilets. Haven't quite figured out which. But it has an asphalt path running along side it. It's relatively flat and goes on forever. I saw a purple big wheel floating upside down in the water.

The leg is almost 100% I think. The only time I even felt it was when I sped up to cross the street.

Houston, TX 6:30am

Pace: 8:34

Still taking it easy. I went along Bray's Bayou again. The other direction this time. A nice morning run.

It's humid here! Running in the early morning and evening isn't bad. At one point last night it even felt a little cool. But with the humidity it still feels like you're running in a laundromat.

Boise, ID 7:00am

Pace: 8:11

Planned on doing a 10-miler this morning but the speaker on my phone isn't working, so the alarm didn't go off. I had to leave for Twin Falls by 9, so I cut the run a little short. I pushed the pace a little more than I had during the week. It was nice to get out of the heat of Texas and back home where the mornings are cool and the air is dry.