Chad's Runs

7 on sluggish legs.

Went in the afternoon after work. It was actually hot. My legs felt heavy again. I don't know why. I tried to run a couple fast half miles and that was frustrating because the effort didn't show any results.

5 in the afternoon nice and slow. I've had a crappy week of running. Busy. Weather. Lazy. Not necessarily in that order. I'm happy with it all things considered. 

This one went well. I took it easy for the first half then picked it up and finished strong. The lights are fixed under the main street tunnel and the pelicans are back. 

7 miles in the afternoon. I got up early but saw the snow and wet roads and went back to bed. I'm afraid of wet roads freezing and becoming slick. I'm getting up there in age and I don't want to break a hip.

4 runs in 5 days. This hasn't happened for a long time. I don't feel any injuries coming on but I don't want to tempt fate and my body isn't used to this much pounding.  So this morning I took it nice and easy and made it short.  With my busy schedule I think a good compromise is 4 runs a week.  Now I have to find the motivation to get in that many.  I haven't done a good job with that the last year or so.

This was supposed to be on Thursday morning, but got back late Wednesday from the Bon Jovi concert.  I'm a dork but it was awesome.

My garmin battery was dead which is weird because it seems I just charged it.  So I took it easy and enjoyed the cool, well actually cold, air.

Failed to find time to run on Saturday.  It was busy and I wanted to sleep in.  Oh well.  So this morning I got out and it was real dark.  The trail is creepy when its this dark so I ran east on the road.  I felt heavy and pushed through and finished with a respectable time.  I hope I didn't push too hard so that tomorrows run is miserable.

6 miles including 4 1/2 mile repeats in the 7:45 pace range. There is slow progress but there is a long way to go to get back to were I was a year ago.

I wanted to get out on Wednesday or Thursday but it didn't happen.  But today was a good one highlighted by a bald eagle.  I tried to take a picture but it wasn't more than a spec, not enough zoom. I haven't run twelve for a while but it went well. The Thanksgiving point half was running and got in the way of my run. I should have raided an aid station.

Here is a crappy picture of the bald eagle. Its the black spec on the top of the tree. You'll just have to trust me.

7 miles on tired legs. I guess Saturday's run took more out of me than I thought. It's nice that there is light in the morning now. Only for the first mile or two was it fully dark.

7 Miles with some half mile repeats somewhere in the middle. I was happy with the results.