Spend yesterday baking breads for the widows that live on my block. I'm a bit of a bread nut. I grow my own wild yeast and spend most of my free time on weekends running, baking, and garden work. For Mother's Day I made a carmelized onion and herb Ciabatta (Italian for Slipper because of it's shape) and a Rosemary Garlic Potato Bread. Six loafs in total. Being a three stage process I started Friday with the end product out of the oven on Sunday. I made some sour dough bread for the family. I try to stick to the original recipe from the place of origen the best I can, which often requires ordering on line the ingredients not readily available in your local supermarket and I grow all my own herbs. No machines, all is done by hand to secure the perfect tecture, elasticity and moisture. The end result is well worth the time. Enough about baking, although I could write about it for hours.
Today was my long. For some reason Mondays work for my longs. Total time: 2:26. Uneventful. Part of the run (about 3.2 miles) was done on the road and I had the worst luck when it came to lights. I had to stop at nearly every light. It drove me nuts. Ended the run strong. Much better long than my last 18 miler, which was a disaster. Tried to keep it slow the whole way as per Josse's and Sasha'a advice. Average pace 7:58 per mile. Had a few more miles in me at the end. Good solid run all around. | 