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Waited the rainy coldness out this morning - 40 degrees and rainy/windy until noon.  

Sunny, warm, but very strong wind gusts still at 1pm.

Long Run workout: 10 AT Windy - Struggled with even effort and any sort of pace faster than 6:50ish.  Took a full mile to get the legs loose and the system up and running, and then struggled with mile 2 at 7:00 pace...  Hung around 6:50 - 7:00 but needed some bigger effort for some of those miles.  Not the best of days performance-wise.  jogged about 8-8:30 pace for the rest.  The homemade mix I took along in my handheld was pretty awful... :)    

Parked the car downtown at the Start/Finish line of MillRace Marathon.  Route was part of the Mill Race course and then hopped onto people trails going out over the Lincoln Park Bridge over Hawcreek, and toward the airport.  Definitely one of my favorite parts of the City we live in.  Its a paved 60% shaded path that winds around a golf course, over and along side a couple of creeks, under a major road (used to have to cross through traffic before a cool project was completed), and out toward the lightly used regional airport. 

19 miles total - 2:22:21.  walked around the block to cool down and loosen up before a brief stretch and hopping in the car.  Another good week.  Gotta get on the perhab work to arrest (and reverse?) this knee tightness - probably IT band non-sense again. 

Lunch time and the sun is out and weather BEAUtiful.  Pulled the Bicycle off the trainer and rode around the neighborhood outside for the first outdoor bike ride in a long while.  5 miles - 20 minutes.  Pretty enjoyable.

Used that as a warmup hoping to loosen up the knee a bit for the run.  It worked - 10 miles easy pace - about 1:26.  Went out and back through Tipton Lakes again.  Lots of people out, but, again, I avoided close encounters.  Feeling pretty fatigued and legs are tired, but maintained.  Been a while since I've been here in my training.  Its usually a good sign for things to come.  

Ran with the 7 year old teaching him to ride a bike.  He's almost there - just needs to be able to stop and start :)  

COVID count is still climbing in Indiana: 15961 is up by over 1500 confirmed cases since Saturday.  844D is +60 for IN.  Our county is up by 35 confirmed cases.  

Wonderful easy run around the neighborhood in the morning.  4.63 miles - 39:17.  Doing some foam rolling and stretching as part of every run now.  Knee loosening up.  

Lunch run workout: 2, 1, 2x0.5mi. at TH - working hard to stay down around 6:10 and 6:00 pace.  Warm outside this afternoon - sweating sunscreen in to the eyes, and today was day 1 of my seasonal allergy woes, apparently (nose running like a faucet).  8 miles total - 55:16.   

Easy 4 miles in the am before work - 35:27.  Loop around fairgrounds.  Great weather - Wind is blowing in a storm. 

 walked on TM to test it out after moving it around alot - its clunky

AM before work - nice 4 mile run around CR loop - 33:45.  Feeling good after taking yeasterday easy

Lunch workout: 16x1min. On/Off + Segment attempt no. 2   That's a fartlek, right?  Did not have the correct limits or finish line for the segment and failed again.  Don't know how I messed that up... I going for all the segments in Tipton Lakes - this one seems to be one of the harder ones.  Tried for the second time in the middle of the workout.  Feeling pretty strong throughout the workout today, even in all nasty rain and chilly temps.  8.6 miles total - 60:28    

AM - easy run around the neighborhood: 4.15 miles - 36:41

Runch: Tipton Lakes out and back:  9 miles - 74:03.  Great weather - the sun is a shining and a lot of people are out side

IN Governor did not extend "Shelter in Place Exec. Order directive - it expired today.

Meanwhile:

Indiana Confirmed Cases = 18,630 (almost +1000 in 1 day), Deaths = 1062 (+55 in 1 day)

Our County = 261 (+11), Deaths = 12 

AM run - out and back to Mill Race: 14.15 miles - 2:00:42.  Trying to take it easy on the pace to get some volume this weekend.  Great Weather - 60 degrees and sunny. 

PM run - home from random drop off across town.  struggled with these miles on some tired legs.  Interesting run throug the CN zone of the RR Bridge Overpass project (shhhhh - don't tell any body ;).  Also randomly saw somebody's credit cards scattered on the roadside and their carry permit - Poor guy!  :(  7.05 miles - 67 minutes.

PM running - beside and supporting Jude to help him learn to ride his bike.  Almost sprinting on a couple... Followed with a bike ride of my own around the neighborhood: 6.6 miles in 27 min.  Windy!  Storm coming in.