Wheeler Farm Loops

AM - 12 miles.

Bloodwork results back. Josh E and SlowJoe tied for the closest guess on HCT and win the grand prize. In the interest of full transparency, here's my biological passport data:

Things are trending back in the right direction. You really can't expect much more of an increase in that amount of time, especially considering I didn't do a whole lot in June.

AM - 14 miles. There was a smell of superglue in the air at the horsepark.

PM - 8 miles.

AM - 12 miles. LT Reps: 2 x 4000m (800m) in 12:38, 12:39. HHS track. Football team started pumping the music for their calisthenics a few laps into the second rep... that should be done more often for track workouts.

PM - 8 miles.

AM - 13 miles.

PM - 8 miles.

Ante up.

AM - 17 miles. Possibly a horsepark loop record.

PM - 7 miles. 6 + 10 x 30s uphill. Not exactly popping on these, but was able to keep the effort honest. We've got a red-eye flight to Knoxville and I didn't anticipate being motivated enough to crank out hill reps tomorrow.

Unboxed a fresh pair of wedding shoes for the weekend...

AM - 10 miles. Sluggish after flying through the night.

PM - 7 miles. Mostly along the Tennessee River before dinner at Calhoun's. Felt a lot better after a short nap in the afternoon.

AM - 25 mile long run. All around the suburbs of Farragut, TN (very hilly - like a concrete Jeremy Ranch). Averaged ~6:50/mile. Didn't get started until almost 8:00am which should have been a death sentence, but luckily there was some cloud cover for the first 2 hours and it didn't get too hot. Ran a pretty hard quarter mile to close out the run after I hit the twenty-five mark and was pleased to see I had some spring left.

PM - 5 miles.

Decided that I prefer "rich man's altitude" (Western ski towns) to "poor man's altitude" (southeast humidity).