Larry, Kent and I ran the new modified Wednesday route...the 1st big water tank hill up to the parking lot, twice, then a loop through the old WordPerfect campus. We left at 5:00am instead of 5:45am because babysitter Grandpa Larry needed to be home to watch grandson Becket so Grandma Jolene could go to work. As usual I looked at my watch near the end of the run to see how fast I had to hurry to get home by 6:45am. When I realized it was only 6:00am, I decided to add a few miles onto the end of the run. After walking and chatting with Larry and Kent a bit I continued on and ran the neighborhood 5K course. I bumped into Lyle stretching after his run near his home and stopped and talked for a while. It had begun snowing at that point and by the time I got home it was coming down pretty steadily. As I was running on the Northridge Park trail, unlike Monday in the slush, I wasn't "concentrating on keeping my center of gravity centered over the contact
point of my stride to prevent the magnitude of a lateral force in any
direction from exceeding the frictional coefficient of the surface" (COKMCOGCOTCPOMSTPTMOALFIADFETFCOTS) and I slipped twice on the same patch of ice and nearly went down. From then on I made sure I was COKMCOGCOTCPOMSTPTMOALFIADFETFCOTS-ing. I think I'll take it easy tomorrow and maybe skip Friday or just go a few easy miles as I mini-taper for the 1/2 marathon on Saturday. I wanted to still get in 40 miles this week. I've now front loaded the week enough that the 13.1 miles from the race on Saturday will get me to 40.
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