"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

I ran the old Blue mailbox route this morning via canal road and my legs were pretty stiff and sore! I kept the pace nice and easy, I ran 4.67 on my own with an average pace at 9:00 and my total time was 42:08, after that my son Ethan was waiting for me and we ran another 3 miles easy averaging a 9:25 pace except for the last half mile Ethan speed up and was out ahead about a minute. After that I did my standard upper body weights and some push-ups. I hope my legs aren't as stiff tomorrow, oh well no pain no gain so they say;)

See ya tomorrow.

I took my easy day today instead of Friday to give my legs a better chance to recover from saturdays race, they did feel better today but I just ran a couple with Ethan and called it good. We ran out to the old barn on Canal road and then ran back to the house, pace going out was 9:17 and then before we headed back I told Ethan to run a faster pace and and see if he could hold it and I would try and catch him. So, he did and I couldn't catch him, he was 30 or 40 seconds ahead of me and then with about .35 togo he really took off! He was a sub 7:00 mile for sure cuz after about 1/4 mile I backed off because I new there was no way of catching him... My mile for that second mile was 7:40 but when I was trring to catch him it was like 7:15 but I wasn't gaining any ground;)

Average pace was 8:30, I dont know what it was for Ethan cuz I couldn't catch up to him to see, I guess if he stays serious about this I will have to get him a watch;) The kid's got some wheels!!!

Back at it tomorrow.

I ran up towards the mailboxes but before I got there I turned and went part way up Oak street, really steep, and then back down to the house. I didn't push the pace on the way down, but it was up beat average pace for the run was 8:40 with a total time of 49:54. After returning I went and ran the 5K course with Ethan, he wanted to try it and see if he could finish, so we ran down to the start which is about a half a mile from the house. We took it easy on the first mile which is mostly up hill and then once we got up on to canal road Ethan decided to take off and started to pull away. Once we hit the downhill on 100 east he pulled away a little more but then when we made the turn to head back to the pond he slowed down just a bit. On the home stretch he picked it back up again and finished pretty strong, I forgot to reset my watch before we started but I put offical time at between 24:30 and 25:00, I'm pretty sure he wasn't over 25 minutes, total time for that portion was 29:29 and that included the half mile warm up which took about 5 minutes. I forgot to reset my watch;(  I'm pretty proud of him and I think with a little training and on a flatter course he could brake 20 minutes for sure... 

See ya tomorrow.

I ran out towards Mini GU corner but stopped about a half mile short, my legs were really tired from yesterdays harder run and I just couldn't get them going but I was able to get through it... After returning home good old Ethan was waiting to go a couple of miles so we headed out to the old barn and then back to the house pace was pretty easy but then Ethan pulled away towards the end again, average pace for me on those two miles was 8:56 and the average pace for the first five miles on my one was 8:51. Like I said I had no zip in the old legs, maybe I'm just getting old and have nothing left. Just kidding. Any day running with your son is precious, I look forward to it each day.

See ya tomorrow.

I ran just a few miles with Ethan and then called it a day.

I ran out towards GU corner and then down into the river bottoms I then did a 2 mile loop down there and then headed back to GU corner, after that I fueled up on some of my borthers water and gatorade.  Pat loss came up and I was able to run mile or so with him and then I headed back to GU corner, fueled up again and then headed for home. After returning home I was feeling pretty good so I tacked on another 2 miles around my house to give me just over 16 miles for the day. Average pace was 8:31 with total time at 2:18:15, I felt pretty good at times and then other time I would stop and stretch for a second and then be on my way.  It was way Hot and very humid but I was averaging a faster pace towards the end than at the beginning, I wanted to teach the legs to run even when their tired... I'm glad that I was able to get this one in the bank, I was only planning on going 14 but went a little more so I feel pretty good about it.

PS- I owe my brother some Gatorade and water it came in handy big time, thanks Brother!

See ya Monday.