I just felt like running

Run around neighborhood and Pt. Mallard with Elliott.  He is a great running partner.  He loves that stroller.  Held around 9 min/mile.

i wasn't a good example as a president of a RRCA club-   jog stroller and headphones.  I should have brought the dog and wore roller skates and I'll I'd get a lifetime ban from the road running club or america.   Do as I say , not as I do.    Actually I'm in complete agreement with the rules for races but on your own its different.

Lunch on trails.   Did pushup work out in conjunction with hill climbing.  0.25 mile up, 0.25 mile down , 15 pushups.  Repeat 4 more times.   Did 17 pushups at the end.   Pretty hot day again.  Sunny.   Didn't push the hills.

Lots of rain on the horizon so I opted for the fitness center treadmill.  2 mile warmup at 7 mph.  1.6 miles at 6:30 pace then 0.7 miles at 6:00 pace.  Cool down.   

I was in a daze after I got off the treadmill as one of my co-workers asked if I was lost.  I was over at the window just pacing around aimlessly.  His question woke me up. 

Ran around the roads at work.  Wanted to stay at 8min/mile but not much faster. Still a bit sore from yesterday.  Fit in pushup repeats of 15, 13, 11, 11, and 16 in between 90 second running recoveries.

Ran in the morning because I had an 8am doctor appt.  I'm in the habit of getting up at 5am to go to work early.  I had plenty of time to fit in the run since the doctors office is <5 min away.   Ran easy and around neighborhood.  Ran around Fiona's school twice- not much activity at 6:30.  

Easy run at work.  Got in pushups in between hill climbing (15,15,12,12,18). 

Spiders are still out.  Had a few full face webs.  Lovely. 

Went to Hurricane Creek with my Dad.  Garmin said 7 miles but it felt alot longer.  There are lots of trees, rocky outcroppings, and curvy trails that cause havok with GPS signals.  In the end, it doesn't matter what the Garmin says since I ran whatever I ran.

 Took a good tour of most of the trails.  There were several new insane MTB trails and jumps.  I'm happy to be able to stay on solid ground.  i have no desire to fly off a 6 foot high jump and land on a rocky downhill.

I ran up what is called the "Gauntlet".  It is a straight down for probably 500 ft of elevation change.  Its a little harder than some of the climbs on the Mountain mist course.  Very hard and by most reasonable definintions : not -runnable. 

Saw a 4 ft long black snake which made me jump.

The temperature on The south edge of the creek  dropped about 10 degrees.  Sheltered from sun and benefitted by exposed moist out croppings.  Went through Twilight tunnel and Heaven's staircase.   Cool. 

Still have more to explore upriver (to the east).

My dad hiked around and enjoyed it.  My mom, Liza, Fiona, and Elliott met us later for a picnic.