Chad's Runs

Good early 5am 7 mile run.  It was warm enough for the wet roads not to freeze and turn to black ice.  Although, I saw someone scraping their windshield.  Why would a windshield ice over but not the ground?  The thermometer read 34 at my house.  I don't understand that.  Where was I?  Oh yeah, I started with a 2 mile warm up going south on the JRP.  I ran into a skunk so I had to turn around and run north.  I finished those 2 miles back at the house and changed into my Altras.  I haven't ran in these for quite a while but I'm determined to make them work.  I want my feet and lower legs to be strong enough to handle them.  So I ran a half mile then walked for a minute then ran back.  It felt all right, not any worse than my other shoes.  I changed back to the first pair back at the house and finished up with 4 miles for a total of 7.  I'll try adding just a half mile a week in those shoes and see how they go.

8 miles at 5am south on the JRP into Saratoga Springs and back.  It started snowing just I after I started.  It wasn't enough to even wet the road for most of the run, just enough to tickle the eye lashes.  By the end of the run there started to be a little accumulation but not enough to make things slick.  My ankles felt pretty good during the run but are aching now.  I hope they feel good tomorrow because I've got another 7 scheduled for the morning.  It's mostly just my right ankle now and it seems to be taking less time to get better.  This healing process is excruciatingly slow but it is happening.

I thought this might be the first time this year that I've needed to shovel the driveway but no.  No one likes to shovel a driveway but this weird weather is a little concerning.  It is not normal.  (great for running though) 

Crap, I accidentally entered this on Thursday.  Now I've got it right.

7 miles on various streets through south west Lehi.  I started off on the JRP but it was a little slick with black ice here and there and I thought the streets might be a bit dryer.  I was right, the footing was much better there.  I tried wrapping my ankle as Smooth suggested.  It was less sore than I thought it would be the day after an 8 miler.  That might have been because of the wrap, thanks Smooth.

15 miles of the JRP.  I wanted to get an early start so I ran 5 starting a little after 6am.  After a few of those I ran into Richard, my neighbor.  I ran all 14 of last weeks long run with Richard and he ran me into the ground.  Anyway, I invited him to join me for 10 with RAD and Toby at 7:30.  So we headed back to my house to finish those five and drive up to the meeting place.  Up at the bridge Toby wanted to run north.  Rachael gave a nice eye roll to that but we went on anyway.  The trail for a half mile is still messed up but passable.  Once we got to the north end of the golf course the trail crosses the river and starts to climb up the point of the mountain.  The climb is significant and was the source of Rachael's eye roll, she has run enough inclines lately.  We turned around to finish 10 for that section, 15 over all.

Thanks everyone for letting me tag along.  These runs a so much better with good company.