The Long Run

Did not run today.  Yesterday felt like another marathon of packing, filled a small uhaul with stuff that didn't fit in 3 PODs.  Finally got everything out of the house about 11:00, with the laundry room finished last.  Drove the truck to near my office to park for a few days until closing on the new house.

1.33 mi, 13:18, 10:02

Short  "better than nothing" and avoid 0.0 run from my house to just past the gate and then back.

5.44 mi, 56:19, 10:21 avg

Easy run in the neighborhood with Jamie, out along the golf course in the t-shaped route.

On the way back we came pretty close to getting run over.  Light was green and we had the crossing sign, light was red for traffic the other way and had been red for a little bit when a guy on his phone while driving blew right through the light.  We glared at him and he sort of shrugged a "sorry not sorry" look at us.

A few days later there would be a fatality on this same stretch of road, not the exact same spot and different circumstances but literally too close to home.

4.26 mi, 36:05, 8:29 avg

Short solo run in the neighborhood, from my house out to the intersection of RTJ and Little Road.  Last mile was 6:57.  A little bit warmer this morning.

5.8 mi, 48:40, 8:24 avg

Ran from my house out to the new park and did two loops around the lake.  Exercise in pacing with first lap run comfortably and then next ran run faster, but not all out, but with the goal of beating the time for the first lap.  Did paces of 8:31 and 7:30.  Then ran back home (2.26 mi) at an average pace of 7:17.

I had started out the run without wanting to go fast or even feel good, I just felt like plodding along, what a difference the run made, I felt great finishing up.  Glad I had enough get up and go to get out the door.

10.5 mi, 1:28:23, 8:25 avg

I had wanted to go do Robbie's run but it was a later night than expected (Went to Friday service to see Aubrey get her prayer book, then unloaded and returned the uhaul).  Jacob and Jessica were over.  I did not get out the door until 9:15.   I was hoping I'd have a surprisingly good and better than expected run or a faster run where it wasn't easy but I pushed myself.  Instead, I got this run which was still a pretty good run.

Solo from home, to Starkey Blvd until reaching just over 5 miles then heading back.  Stopped in Longleaf to use the fountain.  When crossing back over Starkey Blvd I used the new pedestrian crosswalk warning lights which no cars seem to care about.  However, one vehicle did finally stop (a Stanley Steamer carpet cleaning van), and all the other vehicles in the other lane did stop.

It was getting a bit warm by the time I got back home.

A bit of a light week for mileage, but better than nothing.