El Burro Blanco

Hot 8 miles this afternoon with the boys.  I can't believe the weather right now.  I had a little bit of tightness from the weekend but overall felt okay.

8 miles with the girls this afternoon.  We jogged over to Little Valley and did 800m repeats in the grass.  It helped to have the sprinklers on so it wasn't extremely hot.  Overall a good workout for the girls.  

I tackd on another 4 miles after practice.  Some of the kids saw me running "extra" and thought I was crazy.

6 miles with the boys today over into the industrial area by Blue Bunny.  We went out into the desert a little today and it really made the boys a little tired.  Another scorcher this afternoon.

I did another 6 miles after practice.  I started at the school and then went over to the DC trail.  I drank some of the trail side water which was lukewarm.  It was refreshing in a weird kind of way.

Workout this morning with Dave and Clyde.  We did an 8 mile brisk progression run.  Splits were: 6:18, 6:01, 5:46, 5:31, 5:25, 5:21, 5:27, and 5:16.  The 7th one was a little bit of a glitch because I literally almost stepped on two skunks.  They came right in front of me and stayed right on the trail.  I stopped and hollered at Dave and Clyde to stop as well.  Dave was my knight in shining armor and jogged ahead to see if they were gone.  We got close and one of them had its tail straight up in the air!  We waited a couple minutes and then just eased back into it.  I finished the last mile strong which made me very happy.  

Happy to have not been sprayed by the skunks and happy with the workout.  Nice morning for running.

5.25 miles with some of the girls this afternoon.  We did a little warm up and then did 1-1, 5-5, 4-4, 3-3, 2-2, 1-1 (one hard and then same amount easy).  It was a mainly on grass around the high school.  Good workout for the kids.  Now for dinner and a movie with the Mrs.

We did our fundraiser run this evening.  I didn't want to run a ton but did help pace some kids to get their money.  I did two 3 mile mini runs with a few boys.  One I paced to go under 19:30 and the other was to hit 16:30.  Tacked on some slower miles to let the legs relax.  Lots of fun but really tiring.

Met with the guys to hit the marathon course one last time.  I was going on 1 1/2 hours of sleep so I was curious to see how it would go.  Only wanted to get a good run in and not stress about pace.  Kept everything nice and relaxed and ended up hitting 6:20/mile overall.  Body is a little tired so it will be nice for the next 2 weeks to really "sharpen the saw" and get mentally ready for the marathon.  It is crazy to think it is already here.  Fairly optimistic with how things can go.  I haven't raced a ton this year but I am feeling ready.