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Went Long today - People Trail lollipop - paved path around town, with some stints in the grass to take it easy on the legs/kness/joints and what not.  A couple of stops to pee, and used the portapot at the top of the overpass again, after about 20 miles.  Wore the hydration pack, and definitely needed every ounce of that water with gatorade elctrolyte mix.  1 Huma caf gel at about 23 miles and one Maurten caf earlier on (2 hours or so).  8a - 12:30p and getting warm at the end for sure.  30 miler in the books - 4:25:11.    

Easy 30 minutes around the neighborhood.  3.16 miles.  Feeling fine after long long run yesterday.  

Foam rolling and some stretching to looen up, and lunch run - lollipop to Tipton Lakes Shorline Drive visit.  Went the Jonathon Ridge alternate (slightly longer) route.  9.08 miles - 1:17

Sidewalk project on CR 200 is wrapping up - contractor is putting down the HMA to fill in in front of curb and gutter and pouring driveways / approaches up to grade.  Pretty warm around that paver and all that hot mix/black oil.  I'm surprised at how good I feel today after a long one yesterday.    

Crack in the windshield on the Highlander - dropped off at Autoglass repair place to replace.  $650  :(    Run home from there - super tired and hot on this run.  Run down State St. and Ppl trail along SR 46 with little cover.  Hat, Sunglasses and neck/ear covering were helpful, amybe.  8.77 miles in 1:19 

Lunch Sandwhich: Cycle out to Grandview Lake Trailhead:

a. 6.6 mile ride was a moderate effort for me (the most amateur cyclist ever) 28 minutes

b. Hopped off, chained up bike at TH of the trail and went around for a CCW loop.  The trail is a fantastic trail - lots of vertical change, decently maintained (but not too much...) and marked enough now to stay on course.  Humid like a suana, a few bugs, one turtle, but nobody else out there.  Solid efforts on most of the ups - there's a lot of ups.  Took a spill on a nastly little stump of a root and fell all the way down.  One of those where you lay there for a second... :)   5.52 miles in 64 minutes.  Looks like its 950 ft. vertical

c. Back to the bike as the light rain started.  6.6 mile ride back home in alite drizzle most of the way, but, a much easier time with less climbing, apparently - Didn't understand until I looked back out the ridiculous difference - trip home downhill / trip to the trail uphill.  25:40 rtn trip

Night jog around the neighborhood - 2.43 miles slowly   

Lunch run - Segment tester, + 2x1mi. AT (?) -  according to weather app., some sort of riduclous air quality thing going on today that I definitely felt (?) trying to run any amount of up tempo.  Segment hunting time again - Carr Hill East is a 0.65 mile up hill segment with a pretty decent CR to chase.  Tested that out first and managed something about 1:00 too slow :).  Okay - so I have some work to do... recovery jog after Segment test, and then tried a 1 mile repeat type workout.  Fail - anything under 7 minute pace and I am gasping for air.  pulled the plug after 2 at 6:48, and 6:55.  Crazy and discouraging - need some recovery time to let the volume sink in. 10 mi. total - 82:32  

Soccer practice at much more crowded soccer complex.  Boys did some good things today.  They are catching on.  5 laps around their little field as the finisher - 600m almost exactly.  I ran back home across town slowly and with some soggy mid section - 10.66 miles 94 minutes.  Taking a down week was a good decision.  

Easy morning run with my standard emergency No. 2 Stop off in the woods of Tipton Lakes.  7.2 miles 66 minutes.  Cooler temps this morning and trend continuing next couple of days.  Sunday might be a big day.  Time trial marathon or Long long run.  

Morning run - easy 2 hours.  14.21 miles - 2:05.  Out and back to Mill Race park.  Feeling strangely tired in the second half of this run.  Discouraged me abit, with a big plan for tomorrow.  Wound up not following up on the big plan anyway, and completing the recovery week.