Winning Back What I Lost

640AM:  I actually felt rested this morning.  4.57M at slow, easy pace.  Got smoked by quite a few sprinklers again.  I wasn't so concerned about getting wet because it was relatively warm but I was a little worried that all the water would short out my ipod.  I've got a cover/armband protecting it but the sheer amount of water was similar to jumping in a pool.  My garmin watch is still acting funny.  It shuts off after 3/4M or so and then it seems to work OK the rest of the run.  It's a refurbished model so maybe its just reached the end of the line?

9PM:  Ran to the nearest Redbox (5 Mile and Overland) to pick up a couple of flix and back.  6.21 easy miles.  I was nearly home and just about to celebrate the fact that my Garmin didn't spontaneously shut-off when it powered down immediately after I tried to turn on the backlight.  The power button and backlight are the same button so I may have held the button too long and shut it off myself. 

845PM:  Did not make it out of bed this morning so I had to stretch out a mid-range run this evening; temp around 90 degrees when I started and a little, not much, cooler after the sun went down; Nice, easy pace with a couple of water breaks mixed in; the last mile as I was nearing my house there was an overwhelming smell of BBQ pork in the air that made me nauseous, other than that it was a good run. 

640AM: 4.7 easy miles this morning; I felt surprisingly good for it being only 8 hours after my 10 miler last night; still having problems w/ the Garmin; don't know what I'll do in the short term; It would be a bigger deal if I weren't so focused on building base and consciously avoiding the speed workouts;  I'll probably just continue to use it until it completely fails and fill in the gaps w/ google maps; this means I'll have to stick to actual roads and not canal trails or greenbelt paths where google cannot measure the distance.

930PM: 5.43 not so easy miles in 90 degree heat; brutally hot today; more or less slogged my way through the entire run.

9PM:  Another slow, easy run in hot weather; temp around 90 degrees again until the sun went down then down to a chilly 85 thereafter; no run tomorrow because I'll be fishing Silver Creek w/ my cousin whose coming in from Portland; leave Boise at 4am to get to the Creek when the sun comes up and hit the Creek's famous midsummer early morning trico spinner falls.  Can't wait.  Hoping to get in a long run of around 15-16 miles on Saturday.

1015AM:  Took yesterday off to fish Silver Creek in Sun Valley; didn't get back home until midnight so I had to push my long run off until the evening; my wife had other plans and didn't return home until late and by that time I was not willing to run until 1AM; the day off gave my legs some extra juice; I could have gone longer but I didn't bring water and it was still pretty hot even though it was late evening.