I worked until 12:15 a.m. this morning, a 15-hour Friday (though I snuck home for two hours in the after learning how late I'd be staying there, to at least give my feeble brain a rest). So I was glad that Mike wanted to skip the early Slug run and meet this group in Silverdale at 7:30 (what a concept, leave when the sun has come up). It was a cold morning, really foggy at my house but clear up there on Dyes Inlet. 30 degrees at the start but we chanced it and dressed lightly, and it warmed up once the sun was up. We took the Clear Creek Trial out to Trigger Avenue, then crossed Highway 3. I usually loop back on the trail. From Trigger we went toward the Bangor gate, then hung a left on Clear Creek Road and turned south. There's a decent little hill right at the turn, then you cruise mostly downhill. We went past Anderson and Newberry, dropped this other guy off at Newberry, then turned again at El Dorado and came back to the Silverdale Waterfront on Silverdale Way. Traffic was picking up by then, it was nice to be done. Different people in that group estimated the distance between 10.3 to 10.6, so I'm not totally sure. No mile markers. We ran for 1:19:00, which would be 7:31 miles (assuming it's 10.5, which is my best estimate). The one mile that we could clock on the course was 7:15 (at about the halfway point), so I'm not sure where the slow miles would have been. It felt consistent, and Mike and I usually run faster than 7:30s. Felt pretty good, I was kind of sluggish from work but my legs were alright until closer to the end. Good mileage week, finally up over 30, which makes up for the past two. I'll stay above that for a few weeks and creep towards 40/50 as the marathon gets closer. supernova red -- 361
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