The Long Run

5.64 mi, 53:11, 9:25 avg, HR 140 bpm

Ran from Longleaf, up and down Starkey Blvd bike trail (and about 0.2 miles into Aristida).  I had to drop off something for Tom before school, so since I was right there it worked out to run from there.  Nice cool morning again.

6.52 mi, 54:37, 8:22 avg, elev gain 363 feet, HR 144 bpm

Did not feel like running this morning and wasn't sure how far I'd end up running, but decided to run in the neighborhood (Westlake).  I like starting at the neighborhood lowpoint which is just down the street and around the corner so I can run up slowly, it feels like an easier warm up than running downhill or flat.

Anyway, did one loop around the inside of the neighborhood, then ran to near the clubhouse for hill repeats up Sandy Hook.  It's about a 1/4 mile (maybe just a little over).  Ran up, paused a little bit, then ran back down.  Initially, the downs were faster than the ups, but by the 5th time the up was faster (5th one up was fastest of any of the repeats).

Finished up with about a mile, long way back to the house.

Glad I did hills today, made the run go by faster and felt like progress.

In the evening, saw Sophia at her second track meet (middle school) running the 1600.  She improved from 8:29 down to 8:13. 

7.53 mi, 1:23:19, 11:04 avg,  HR 125 bpm

Run/walk 3/2 from Westlake Village over to the Pinellas trail up to Wall Springs park and then back the way I came.  It felt tedious at times sticking to the run/walk but it was overall easy on my body and gave me a good, low enough heart rate.

4.05 mi, 40:02, 9:52 avg, HR 137 bpm

Ran from my house this morning, out and back to the new trail, but not quite all the way to SR 54.  Faster pace than yesterday by over a minute but still kind of slow.

Got to talk to Andy for a bit after my run about his school project, it seems similar to what I do for work as far as figuring out embedded systems but he's taking it a step further with VHDL and programming FPGAs.  I've so far been able to avoid that but wish I knew more about it.

5.15 mi, 52:04, 10:06 avg, HR 132 bpm

Mostly easy run around inside of Westlake Village, one main loop, one run out and back the Woodcutter/Lakeview hill, and a little loop around Lakeview Terrace.  Enough variety to keep from getting bored while running inside a relatively small area.

8.05 mi, 1:17:08, 9:35 avg, HR 131 bpm

Met up with Joe and Cynthia just after 7:00 at Longleaf.  Did a similar route to last week running into Starkey Ranch to and around Cannon Lake (clockwise), then back the way we came.  It was another nice morning.  Saw Tom finishing his run as we were about to start, later saw Jenny and Maria, Diane and a new person not sure his name, and Claudia was out by the lake when we stopped there briefly.