Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't

Some days this running blog is just a running log.  Today is one of those days.

The Tuesday Ten with Tom!  I'm kind of liking this mini long run on Tuesdays!  Our 10 mile course gives us a few hills and we added in a few striders along the way.  I felt good the whole way and I am not feeling overly tired! 

Tom was singing a few too many "happy" songs up the hills and into the wind.  I told him he is welcome to do all the singing in those situations! 

We saw a cute little deer and a couple of peacocks and lots of road kill today.  Nothing like Davy Crocket's report from the other day....holy cow, he saw a mountain lion, fox and a bunch of other stuff.    That would make me just a bit nervous!  But I do enjoy the wildlife and farm animals that we get to see each morning.

Today was one of those days that I just did not want to go run the same old route so I took Tom on a wild goose chase and we saw a few new things and enjoyed a little different route, part of it on the Spanish Fork River Trail. 

I did the 6 mile up and down the city streets route alone today.  Tom headed to the canyon with some of his buddies for an up/down run.  The city park is almost exactly half way in this run so I was able to get a "mouth temperature" drink of water....ugh!  Oh well, at least it wet my whistle for a minute. 

The problem with the up hills here in SF is that they are always INTO the wind!  The final mile uphill and into the wind was starting to get me down but I held on till the end!

Tom and I signed up for the Dirty Dash in Midway that will take place on Sep. 25th.  I am excited!  It should be lots of muddy fun.  We will just have to make sure we keep it slow and fun and not hurt ourselves in any way since it is one week before SGM. 

A great way to  end July!  Tom and I met up with the SF crew.  We ran with them for the first 3 but then was on our own as everyone had different routes and speeds they wanted to do today.  We took it out to Harry's Hill and made it to the top where the nice family keeps their hose available for us to take a drink.  (Thank you nice family!)