Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

67F, 90%.  7:42 AP.  Nice Sunday run, with about 8 solid strides on the way home - just a bit short of max effort.  Looks like the humidity is back this week.  Joe angry.

70F, 90%.  Slow run, snoozer..

Hot and humid his morning so I went to the treadmills at work for my mid-week workout.  I did 4 x 0.75 with .25 recoveries.  Speeds were 9.8, 9.9, 10.0, and 10.1.  After the last quarter mile recovery, I did half a mile @ 10.6.  I was trying to get some 5k turnover for this workout and probably could not have done it outside today.  I have a real, actual, no kidding race on Saturday - a free 5k at work!  We'll see what happens...

75F, 94%.  7:47AP.  Good and drenched with sweat this morning.  I ran right after it rained so I got the sauna effect.  Probably will finish off the next two days with easy runs, then the 5k on Saturday and a workout on Sunday.

73F, 97%.  8:16AP.  I always thought Leon creek was a dry creek but apparently when we get an inch of rain, it turns into a raging river.  Anyway, my trail was pretty flooded in both directions so I did a little back and forth and ventured into a nearby neighborhood that had an unusual amount of traffic for that hour.  Then back to the trail and I stopped there.  Good enough - it'll be better to be nice and rested for Saturday anyway.

51F.  Easy miles on the creek trail again.  I got into some ankle-deep water so I went around it and found myself in knee-deep water.  whoops.  5k tomorrow...

63F, little breeze.  Today was the annual fun run at work.  All employees, plus their families (high school cross country kids included..) were invited.  I started a little fast, and even so had 10-15 people in front of me after half a mile.  Then started the gradual move up.  Mile 1 in 5:58.  I passed a shorty-shorts guy around halfway to move into 4th.  Yellow singlet was up ahead but I already felt maxed out.  Mile 2 in 6:05.  I was content to coast, because I was pretty wasted already, but Yellow singlet was coming back to me...ugh.  I made the pass and ran scared the rest of the way, as he sounded pretty close.  Agonizing uphill the last half of mile 3, which ended up as another 6:04.  After I heard mile 3 beep, the finish line was still a ways off, and I knew the course was long.  I knew ahead of time it wouldn't be certified or anything, but why not make it a tenth short instead of a tenth long?  Last 0.18 in 1:05 (5:57 pace).  Ended up beating the yellow guy by 10 seconds to get 1st in my AG (actually the results had me first overall since the top 2 must not have had a chip).  So I'm glad I fought for that last spot.

Anyway, that's about the pace I thought I'd run overall - would have eked in below 19:00 had the distance been right.  In addition to doing my workouts, I need to get the mileage up to 60+ to get back in shape, I think.  I've been languishing around 40-50/week and I don't think I can get my endurance back at those levels.  Overall, a good solid race for me at this point.