Rollin' THUNDER

10 miles. avg pace 7:20.

At the end of my run I saw a little fire under a truck in a parking lot. I ran over and was going to try and put it out with my shirt if I could. I got there and saw that the front of the truck was burning as well. A policeman arived seconds later and just watched, which surprised me because I am sure he had a fire extinguisher in his car, and at that point it looked like it could have been put out with a fire extinguisher. A few minutes later a fire truck arrived. I was also surprised by them taking their sweet time to get their hoses out and put out the fire. I know it wasn't an emergency, but still a little gitty-up would have been nice to see. Also a lady was hurrying to try and move her car away from the scene (she was about 20 feet from the truck and probably believes the HOLLYWOOD hype that cars just explode when they are on fire) she thought she was in drive but was in reverse and slammed her car into a truck parked behind her. She pulled forward a little then got out to check the damage, I just looked at her with a "You have got to be kidding me stare". She decided the damage wasnt bad and drove away.

This was a very exciting way to cool down after a run.

11 mies, avg pace 7:07.

11 miles, avg pace 7:18

6 easy miles, avg pace 7:36

I ran the Race for the Cure 5k in Idaho Falls today. This was the first 5k I have done in a couple years (I think). Going in I had high hopes of hitting around 18:00, but my training hasn't been going for too terribly long, so why should I expect a PR? I shouldn't but I had hopes.

The race started and me and one other kid jumped out in front. Technically he jumped out in front and he was about 30 feet ahead by the first 1/2 mile. I could hear someone close behind me, but I didn't want to look and force myself to try and run faster than I am able. At about the half way point I knew I wasn't going to catch the first place guy, and I didn't know how close third was. My goal at this point was to try and maintain the distance between first and me, and not look back for third.

The course was nice. We ran on a paved trail along a river, crossed the river, then ran back on the other side, crossed on another bridge, then went under the bridge back to where we started from. At one point a few geese were walking slowly across the trail, I was trying to run tangents and wasn't about to let a goose push me off my line. I stayed on my line and it got out of the way literally about 1/2-1seconds before I would have kicked it.

My chip time said 18:26, which would be a PR, but my watch said 19:02. I am trusting my watch.

Fun race, good cause.