Every Run is a Great Run!

AM: Ran with Kim around the streets of SF. Very dark with the clouds and no moon, but pleasant temps (50's) and a little humid. We had a run in with a big dog that got the old HR spiked. Did a 1/2 dozen strides along the way and finished the last 1/2 mile faster just under 7 min pace.

8:56/146

Late AM: 2 miles on the roads (7:47/157) and 2 miles BF on the grass (8:26/163)

AM: 6 miles with Kim. Very very dark down in the river bottoms with no moon! But our reward was seeing a bunch of shooting stars. Temps are still quite pleasant for this time of year.

9:22

Late AM: 20 minutes various XT and 2 miles running outside.

8:10/148

Since I'm working just a 1/2 day at home today I decided to sleep in a bit and do the hill workout in the late morning hours. Quite the beautiful day today, about as perfect as could be for running up and down some hills.  It was a tiring workout but I was pleased I felt a lot better than last week. I'm never sure how to log these hill miles, they certainly aren't easy even though the ave pace is in the easy range.  I think today I'll just count a couple miles as MP.

8:07/165 max HR 185

RHR 49

Early AM: Ran 6 miles solo as today is a rest day for Kim. I've been surprised both last week and this week how good I've felt the day following the hard hill workout. Not sure what's up with that but I won't complain.

8:20/155

Late AM: Legs still feeling real good later in the morning so I decided to bag the planned XT workout and add 2 more run miles outside. Just seemed like a waste to stay in the gym with such a nice day out the window. After the 2 miles on the roads (7:56) ran 2 more BF on the grass (8:22).  Sure feels good to feel good.

Early AM: Nice and easy 6 miler with Kim on an overcast but fairly warm morning. Probably our last early morning 50+ degree run of the year, at least in SF. Don't know if I'm quite ready for the weather forecasted for the next week.

9:17/137

Late AM: 30 min various boring XT.

Ran down in St. George as I ended up coming down solo for a quick trip to go to the condo homeowners association mtg. and also replenish some supplies. Rains thru the night kept me up a bit and I decided to run after the meeting around noon.

I was hoping it would be cloudy and cool at that time but it ended up being a bit warm & muggy & sunny. I was pretty pooped by the time I got done. But felt good at times and with the lower elevation I can tell it's easier to hit the 7-ish paces with less effort. At least that was true until the heat caught up to me and cancelled out the altitude bonus.

I was surprised with a couple miles to go to hear somebody calling my name. Turned out to be Steve Hooper who was at the park with his family. Had a nice talk which came at a good time as I was pretty tuckered out at that point and not looking forward to the last uphill mile to the condo.

Happy to now be home after going thru some pretty nasty thunderstorms on the way home.

7:47/164