I can do it. I will do it NINE times!

Ally is back to visit! Yay! She came and ran with us today and it was so much fun. And the weather was so nice! Ran the Washington Parkway loop, it was a great run. Kept it easy on the way out, then picked it up a little on all the downhills on the way back. I love this run! Avg. 7:29/mi. After, I lifted - the usual, then backwards big grass loop to cool down. (DST 416.5)

River run, ran with Ryan Nielson almost the whole way and started off with JFree, too. Started out feeling really lethargic and sore, but it turned out to be a really nice run. Mostly because I didn't want to slow down Ryan that much. At the riverside dr. hill, I did 10x10 sec hill sprints on the steep part. Foot was pretty sore for most of the run. Pretty fast times today, with the downhill miles in the middle all under 7:00. Including the hill repeats up/down and all that, my avg. mile was 7:32. (Alchemy 398.5) 

I seem to have a knack for barely missing the club run. As I pulled into the parking lot, I saw the group leaving, so I hurried to put on my shoes and sprinted after them. (At least, I went the way I thought they were going...) I guess not, because I never ran into anybody. Anyway, it was just as well since my run was most non-triumphant today. My foot was killing me the entire time, so I just ran fast to get back to the store ASAP. I didn't have my watch with me, so my distance is just an estimate from time (about 44 minutes). (Alchemy 404)

Since my foot is a wad-o-crap that hurts, I spent the time I would've spent running more miles trying on and buying a pair of new shoes. It was really hard to tell if the shoe fit right because my foot hurt, but after driving Anna crazy, I finally decided on the Saucony Omni 5 with the Blue Superfeet inserts. Next time I will not wait so long to get new shoes when I notice mine breaking down. Hopefully. Haven't yet decided whether to take off tomorrow for my foot to recover a bit or not. We'll see how I feel in the morning.