Kerry's Running Blog

Waited for Lloyd and Richard to show up this morning, but nobody came. Decided that I'd put in six to eight depending on how I felt. As I was running by the tennis courts to the southwest of the high school, I could see someone up the road towards me. It turned out to be Lloyd. He said that he'd overslept a bit and thought he could find me somewhere along our Monday loop. It was nice to have somebody to run with. He's been putting in some good mileage and it sounds like he'll be ready for TOU. We talked a bit about hotels and such, but probably won't be able to resolve much until this weekend. We're planning to do a ten miler on Saturday.

High school loop in the late afternoon. Tried to push the pace a little harder than usual. Just as I was getting out of the shower after my run, I got a phone call from one of the girls on the soccer team I coach. She was wondering if the game wasn't at 5:45 instead of  7:00 pm as I'd mentioned in practice the day before. I ran downstairs to look at the schedule and make absolutely sure. I about died when I saw that it was at 5:45 since it was about 5:42 at the time. I yelled at my daughter to grab my stuff and we ran for the car, getting dressed on the way. Fortunately all the girls were on time and one of the dads had organized them to some extent so the game was able to start on time. The girls seemed to be a little off in their performance though and we ended up losing 3-0.

Early morning HS loop and later a lunchtime run with Laureen.

Early morning run with Lloyd. The moon was already down when we started at 5:45 so it was pretty dark for a while. Felt good, with no major aches or pains. Stayed fairly distracted from the actual run by listening to Lloyd tell me about the craziness that he sometimes encounters in his job.