Fly me to the moon...

Eight miles with the usual group plus Matt.  The temperature was warmer this morning, but the wind was cold.  I guess it was blowing in the snow we are getting right now.  The foot felt almost normal.  There was very little pain at all.  I'll see how it holds up this week with about the same mileage and then bump it up a little next week.  I'm going to Wyoming this Thursday for a visit and interviews at the Univ. of Wyoming school of geology and geophysics.  It sounds like my schedule will be pretty packed so I hope I will get a chance to do some running while I'm there.  Total time for 8 was 64:00 (8:00/mile).

It was cold and snowy this morning.  The trail had snow and ice on it, which made it hard to go the usual pace.  It was just Sasha and Mary Ann this morning because Jeff overslept.  Total time for 8 was 68:33 (8:34/mile).  The foot felt fine.

The pace was a bit faster this morning because we got started late and Sasha needed to be back and gone by 9.  I ran with the group at around 6:30-6:40 pace for the first 4 miles and turned around.  At that point I slowed down to around 7:30 for the next mile.  Then I ran the next three between 7:00-7:30 per mile.  The first 4 were a bit fast, but my foot seemed to hold up okay.  Total time was 58:16 (7:17/mile).  The extra 0.5 was from running a little at the beginning when we thought Mary Ann wasn't coming and running to class at school.

I thought I would be leaving early tomorrow morning, but it won't be until later in the morning.  I'm glad I will be able to get my run in before my trip.

I ran with the usual group plus Steve Ashbaker.  I didn't participate in any of the speedwork though.  I just ran an easy 8 in 62:46 (7:50/mile).

A big goose egg for today.  I drove to Laramie yesterday afternoon, and then had interviews all day today with faculty and staff in the Geology and Geophysics department.  They took the prospective students out for lunch in the afternoon and dinner in the evening.  It was a long day so I didn't get a run in.

This was a fun day.  I got up early for a run around the town (almost literally) of Laramie.  The town is at ~7200 ft above sea level, but I didn't really notice a difference.  The town is also rather small with less than 30,000 people, which is the 3rd or 4th largest in Wyoming.  I wanted to see a little more of the town and campus so I did a loop around campus.  I was thinking of heading back at that point, but I noticed the LDS church building up on a hill a little further away and decided to check it out.  Then I headed out towards the Laramie river because I had heard there was a trail along it.  Sure enough there was a nice paved river trail along it.  It was cool running along the river with the sunrise.  I took the trail for awhile and then headed back to the hotel.

The rest of the day was spent on a geology field trip with the other 4 prospective students, one current grad student and two professors.  We had breakfast and then headed out towards Rawlins for lunch.  After lunch we went back east to Sinclair, home of the "most modern oil refinery in the world," and took a road out into the desert towards Seminoe state park.  We stopped along the way at various points along the Platte river and looked at rocks.  I learned a few things and was able to follow it somewhat, but got a little lost in all of the terminology.  The best part was climbing down an icy, rocky hillside to see some fossilized pterodactyl tracks.