10 beautiful miles of sight seeing and exploring the city in Rochester, Minnesota. My friend Julia lives about a quarter of a mile from Silver Lake which is a 1.8 mile paved running trail that connects to all of the trails in the city. Today I connected to the Cascadia trail that goes out to the cascadia lake. I did 10 x 1 min on/off on the way back at about a 5:30-5:50 pace. Other than that I just really enjoyed soaking in the sights. The great thing about Rochester is there are tons of paved trails and endless placed to run. However the unfortunate thing is the paved running trails are only open about 6-7 months a year because the weather in the winter is so terrible. Luckily for me the weather is perfect right now. I really did luck out with the timing of this trip. 2 mile walk with the pups around the lake. Headed to the Mall of America this afternoon and then off to Fargo in the morning. I will be pacing 1:40 for the Fargo Half Marathon on Saturday where the weather is predicting 25mph winds and 75% chance of thunder storms. Should be fun! :)
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