The Long Run

6.12 mi, 55:20, 9:03 avg

Ran with Joe and Jamie this morning.  Legs feeling tired so nice to just tag along with and sometimes behind.  

Today is Thomas's birthday.  He's at Jenny's house and the plans to go out to a favorite Japanese (all you can eat) restaurant were scrapped due to hurrican closures however their neighborhood pizza place was open so it still worked out.  Also, due to school also being closed at USF for the hurricane, Andy was home so that was also a nice gift to spend extra time with his brother.

3.54 mi, 31:59, 9:02 avg

Ran around the neighborhood loop twice.  It was much cooler than I thought it would be at 75 degrees.   First mile was very slow, rest felt pretty good.

6.18 mi, 54:54, 8:53 avg

I was attempting to do a mid week longer run (maybe 10 or 11 miles) but I turned back early due to rain which looked like it might have been nasty.

I left my house about 8:00 and while still in the neighborhood saw Stan running back and heard him say something about the coming storm.  At that point it just looked a little cloudy.  As I headed onto 54 I could actually see the rain coming down in the distance.  I turned back just short of 2 miles and was getting a little bit of light rain.   On the way back the rain overtook me and it came down heavy but no lightning or anything dangerous.

By the time I was back in the neighborhood it was done.  I did a little extra then stopped at my house and picked up Stella.  We did about 1.25 miles together with one mile at 7:34 pace.  Dropped her off and added enough to get 6 miles for the day.

AM 5.55 mi, 52:55, 9:27 avg

Ran with Joe and Jamie, legs once again feeling tired but mostly during the warm up.  6:45 start time.  Did not add on extra.

After the run picked up Jenny and Thomas at Jenny's house and dropped off Thomas at my house and dropped Jenny off at the airport to go out to Dallas to see her mom and dad (with her dad not doing well).  Will be an extended time with Thomas at my house, longest since a little before the wedding.  Andy is starting a part time job at Busch Gardens so is not coming home this weekend.

PM 1.79 mi, 21:12, 11:52 avg

Run/walk with Stella, pretty good pace for wearing cargo shorts and older running shoes and only running half the time.  Stella seemed to like it also.

14.27 mi, 2:13:17, 9:20 avg

Met Joe and Jamie at back of the neighborhood about 6:00, headed out to 54 and into Longleaf where we ran into Leah and Daisy heading our way to meet up with us.  The bike trail was heavily flooded in portions due to the dumping rain last night so we first did a 3 mile loop in Longleaf.  After that it was light out so we decided to brave the trail.  There are often large puddles after rain but today they were much larger, but still there were some good open stretches so we would cut across the grass and run on the road's shoulder.  We ran out to the bridge and then back to Longleaf where I grabbed my stashed gatorade.

Got back to Foxwood, said good bye to Joe and then Jamie.  I was at about 10.5 miles, so I did a loop through Cameron's point, headed home, walked Sammy and Stella and then ran Stella about 1.25 miles and then did a little more on my own to get over 14 miles.  Legs were pretty tired but at least I got into the low end of long run territory.  Maybe do another Stella loop tonight.