Chad's Runs

Nine miles north on the JRP. I was going to run 8 because I was a little short on time. 8 out and back takes me almost exactly to the barrier at the north end of Olympic Park where the trail is "closed" still.  Does anyone pay any heed to that barrier?  Anyway, it wasn't there.  I had a small amount of hope that the trail had been fixed and all was well again, but no.  There has been work on it but it isn't done yet.  Anyway, I took it easy because I want to get in a lot of miles this week.  It is the last high mileage week before Utah Valley.  I always have big plans for miles at the beginning of the week but they always fall apart as the week goes on.  I hope I can fight through get these last miles in.

I felt really good this morning. I didn't want to run this one fast because there are a lot more miles this week so I had to hold myself back. I even walked a few times just to get my heart rate down and hopefully save some legs for tomorrow.  Its hard to believe that record temperatures are expected for today because it was a little cool in spots.  The sunrise was an enjoyable sight.

Third run in a row, and these I usually struggle with. But today went pretty well. I did consciously take it easy yesterday so that helped. I got a bit of a late start so between that and tired legs I thought I would only be able to run 8. After the 4 mile turnaround I started to feel pretty good and picked it up, about 1 minute per mile faster than I expected to run it. So I had time for one more at the end.  I'm planning on my long run for Friday so I'll take tomorrow off and hopefully have the will power to run a recovery run on Saturday.

Good run. I took it super slow, 10:45 or so. At 13 I took a pitstop back at the house, took off the water belt, took a leak, and was out again, this time with no effort to keep it slow.  I just wanted to see what I had and I thought I might even go 26 because I was feeling great. Well, the storm hit. I was running into the wind for 4 miles and it just made me winded (pun intended). I decided to turn around and I'm glad I did. It wasn't long after that the lightning and rain started.  I started out wanting to do 20+.  I could have done more but I'm happy with 21.