Long May You Run

4.65 miles.  direct route home from work.  42:04 9:03 ave.  No desire for extra miles today.  Skipped B Street mountain.  Didn't run Sunday.  I accomplished my goal of watching all the NFL games and not leaving the house with the exception of a little 5 miler late Saturday morning.  Rough re-entry into the world today, glad to be home, safe and sound.

5.15 am miles, no watch.  Cold morning.  The type of hand warmer/mitten type thing I wear makes it practically impossible to wear a watch.  No problem, it's nice to just run.

10.1 pm miles.  Took the B Street mountain.  No problem today, well rested with low miles on Fri, Sat, Sun off and Monday was also a low mileage day.  I want to hit about 75 miles this week which means I'll have to make time for a 20 miler on Saturday.  It's looking like about 80% right now. 

5.65 am miles 49:39 8:47 ave.

10.1 pm miles 1:33:29 9:16 ave pace B Street route.  My achilles tendons were very sore.  I think it was the ace ankle wrap things.  At least I hope so.  I felt much better once I got home and took them off, and saw my wife.

5.15 am miles  47:19 9:11 pace

5.65 pm miles  49:48  8:49 pace

Nice warm day.  Shorts!!!!

Cut the pm run short, had a few chores at home to take care of.  The reduced mileage is welcome as well, especially if I run 20 on Saturday. 

5.65 am miles 51:13  9:04 pace.  Warm morning, shorts again.  I'm still thinking about 20 tomorrow morning.  If it's windy, I might bag it.  I hate running in wind.  What will probably happen is that I'll head out from home for an out and back, I'll hit the 5 mile out mark and say "well, just 5 more" then before I know it I'm involved in a 20 miler. 

20 miles 2:52:05  8:36 ave.  The way the wind was howling this morning while I was still in bed had me thinking I was going to bag this 20 miler.  I don't like to run long in the wind.  It had died down by the time I got out of bed at about 5:15.  It was warm and breezy so I figured the run was on.  Rain and wind was in the forecast so I didn't want to do an out and back.  I decided to run at the track so if the wind kicked up I'd only be dealing with it half the time.

The first hour was warm and calm.  The rain started to fall lightly, stayed that way for a while and the last 4 miles were in heavy rain.  The last mile was my fastest at 7:50, the prior 4 were eights.  My body is thanking me for doing this run on the soft, flat surface of the track.  I'm thinking of staying away from the B Street mountain for a while and do more miles on the track.