Running in the Middle

I was disappointed to take the last 9 days off running because of a kidney infection.  I would not recommend an infection of a vital organ, it can really mess with your training schedule.  Anyways, went out for a very slow 4 miles this morning.  Did not feel like I'm back to 100% just yet, I felt a serious lack of energy in my body so I did not try to push it.  It was nice to be out this morning and enjoy the fresh air and mountain views.

Nice morning for a run.  Did a 4 mile loop at a comfortable pace.  Was much faster then yesterdays slow joe run, so things are feeling back to normal I think.

Nice evening for a run, just perfect weather/temp outside.  Did 6.7 miles mostly slow in my new Nike Zoom Vomeros +7.  In contrast to running in my brooks pureflow these are a little more like running in moon shoes.  Less contact feel with the road, very cushioned.  But my feet and legs were not complaining, no aches or pains.  And no need to break them in, they were super comfy right out of the box.  My feeling is that these are going to be really nice for my long runs.

I run for fun in the hot hot sun.  5.3 miles and it was hot at 2 in the afternoon.

Things went really bad today with my brand new shoes.  I went on the murdock canal trail for a small section and they had just put some tar stuff covering the trail.  My shoes were really sticking to the tar and once I got off the trail they got covered in gravel.  So now I'm sitting on my front porch trying to pick all the tar and gravel matted to my new shoes off with a screw driver.