I only run on days that end in a "y."

Great morning - felt like I could keep on running.  I am sure all of us in Texas are enjoying the cold front.  I ran the Lost Horizon/Rain Creek route - added a couple on then came back up Jollyville. I figured it's about time to start running some good hills.

7:30 AP with a couple super easy to start and a couple MGP to finish. 

Decided against the 10k this morning for various reasons - probably none of them good ones. :-)

Chilly morning!  8 out and back from the house - first 2 slow then 7:20's - 7:40's.  Quite a few runners out.

I went for a bike ride yesterday with my two kids and everyone we met was smilling and waving - it's amazing what cool weather will do for people's moods.
 

52 degrees and over 70% humdity.

3.25 miles warm-up followed by a 9.25 MGP tempo run.

Felt pretty good but had some problems with getting the pace down for the first 2-3 miles.  6:56, 6:55, 6:51, 6:51, 6:49, 6:51, 6:44, 6:39, 6:19, .4 @ 6:01. = 6:45 AP.

Overall much better than last week.  What a difference some good weather makes.  Legs a bit sore but no issue on the cardio side of things.

PM - lunchtime run 4 miles in under 32 mins.

Mile repeat day.  I thought about going downtown and running 1200's with the group.  But I am so into my groove now of being home to help with the kids and then taking them to school.  I decided I would run from home instead.  It saves me 30-35 minutes (roundtrip travel time) plus gas.  

Anyway, 5.25 miles easy followed by 3 x 1 mile with 400m recoveries.  

During my second mile they turned on the lights at the track and the middle school kids started to come out to the field for football practice.  I have to give those kids credit for being at school at 6 am.  No way I would have done that at that age.

Anyway, they didn't kick me off the track but I trotted up to the road and finished my final mile - with half on a sidewalk - in the dark - and half on the neighborhood street when I finally turned a corner.  The sidewalk run was fun because of the on coming traffic with the lights on made if very hard to see.  I was lucky that I didn't take a fall.

Happy with my mile times - makes me feel like I could break 5:40s.  I think if I could knock off 3 miles in the 5:30's I would feel pretty confident of being able to run a 17 something 5k.

5:47, 5:42, 5:45

2.25 cool down - 7:20's.

PM - 4 miles easy at lunchtime.

warm an muggy - 7.25 miles in 60 minutes.  

I need to run my LR tomorrow as we are going camping later tomorrow and I probably won't get a run in on Sunday.

90% and almost 80 degrees.  I wanted to run at 8:00 pace to make the run bearable - but after 4-5 miles my legs wouldnt let me, even though I was miserable.  7:40 AP with some slow miles up front.  Glad to be done with it.

I went to ACL fest on Friday night - on my feet for 5 hours, didnt eat much, and got home late and therefoe not much sleep, oh, and almost 80 miles this week - so I wasn't feeling all that strong on this run!