Kerry's Running Blog

Ran the extended temple route this morning with Laureen. Warmed up for two miles and then ran south to pick up an extra mile while Laureen ran east. As I pushed it down the the hill, my right heel was pretty sore, but it felt OK when the road flattened out and then started to climb. As I wanted to catch Laureen before she got to the top of the hill on 40th, I pushed it fairly hard. I really enjoyed putting in a harder effort, but couldn't catch her until just after she'd turned the corner onto Cedar Hills Drive.

It didn't look too bad as we were leaving the house this morning, a few drops were falling and there was a light breeze out of the north, but Laureen and I hadn't gone more than half a mile before a cold rain started with strong gusts of wind (enough to make me a little nostalgic for Boston). We hurried north along the creek trail to find some shelter in the trees and found that when we got to the end the wind and rain had died off. That didn't last long, however, and within a few minutes a light rain started back up and more gusts from the north. We turned south at the trail south of the country club golf course and it almost seemed pleasant. When we turned north again to follow the trail into Highland Glen park, the wind and rain were right in our face and we decided to head back home. As usually happens, the clouds started to break up a bit by the time we got home.  My PF was a bit of a bother throughout the run, but it never got any worse.

Ran the Highland Glen loop this morning. As it was a bit on the chilly side starting out, I ran a little faster than planned. As I felt great after the warm-up, I pushed it for the next couple of miles and pushed it even a little harder on the last 1.2 miles.

Mile	Pace
1	8:32
2	7:59
3	8:05
4	8:06
5	7:39
.2	7:20

Overall average was 8:03 with a total elevation gain/loss of 424 feet.

Cross-training day. Worked out with weights and then went for a walk. PF bothering me a bit after yesterday's run. Beautiful warm fall day.

Went out for a run after some taking care of some errands. A strong wind was blowing out of the northwest and the clouds were low and threatening. Temperatures were in the low 40's and dropping. For some reason I just loved today's run. There were times when I was running directly into the wind that I wasn't moving at all and other times when the wind was pushing me from behind so hard that I might have been running world record pace if I could have just spread a bit more sail. People would look at you like you were insane, but I've been out in a lot worse conditions. There's something just fun about being out when there's a real blow.