They all can't be "easy" runs.

3.5 miles. hood route. 7 am start. 

3.5 miles. hood route. 7:15 am start. hot out. We had a couple of tornadoes yesterday. I finally got the jonboat engine fixed yesterday. At the time the tornadoes were going on, I was hooking my jonboat trailer up. then driving home. timing is everything. 

7.75 miles. hood route to legacy trail, over the SWOM bridge and back. 8 am start. some rain. 80 deg. 100% hum. no sunshine. not bad.

5.5 Miles. Hood Route. 8:30 am start. 

11 miles. legacy trail north from Venice Avenue to 5.5 miles at Oscar Scherer Park entrance and back. I left at noon, with the intention of getting in a good rain run. It stopped raining right before I started, and has now resumed raining since I've stopped running. They still have all of the water fountains turned off at the rest stops along the trail, because of the virus. So I had to run the whole thing without water. That's a bit longer than I'd like to go without a drink in 80-something degree 100% humidity. 

hood route. still trying to get the magical run in the rain. i keep missing the storms. 

7.75 miles. hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 7:30 am start. 85 deg. 78% hum. 76 d.p.

7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. hot. humid. Ffffflorida.

They were pruning trees on legacy trail, so part of the trail was closed.

Also, when I went over Shackett creek on Laurel Road, there were many pockets of foam floating on the water. With a strong outgoing tide, they kind of looked like mini icebergs, floating out. I wonder what caused that?

Finally, Boy #2 played a part of "Hypnotize" by SOAD for me yesterday, on a Baritone. So I had that song stuck in my head for the whole run. 

1 pm at track. 2 up. (4) x 400M + AR. Recoveries first. 1:30, 1:31, 1:32, 1:35. (4) x 200M + AR. Recoveries first. 45, 41, 43, 41. 1 down.  88 deg. 72% hum. 78 d.p.

7.75 miles. Hood Route to legacy trail, over SWOM bridge and back. 8 am start. my right hip was kind of bugging me for the first mile and a half or so. 

7.75 miles. Hood Route to legacy trail, over SWOM bridge and back. 7 am start.

10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to Colonia and back. 7 am start. Hot and humid. overcast, but never raining. 77 deg. 92% hum. 75 d.p.

Non-running related - kind of a big finish to the week for me.

On Thursday, I made dinner for my family. I had made breakfast before, and packed more than a few lunches in my time. But I've never made dinner for these people. Ever. It turned out way better than I (or they) expected. I made this: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/chicken-enchiladas-with-roasted-tomatillo-chile-salsa-recipe-1953523

On Friday, Boy #1 passed his on-line driving test, which means he can get his learner's permit driver's license. So that means the baby boom 9 months after Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne (August '04) are now learning to drive. 

On Saturday after my run, and after a heavy afternoon rain, I took out our 14' jonboat with Tommy. We've been working on the engine for a long time. The boat was my father in law's. It has sat idle for 10+ years, before we started working on it. To be able to finally make the run from here to Snake Island, well... things got emotional out there.

So much so that I took the boat out again Sunday with Tommy and Johnny. Sunday, I let Tommy run the boat for a while, and bring us all the way back to the dock/neighborhood boat ramp. It is a very circuitous route for about a half hour. It was tough to not be barking orders at him the whole time. He did it just fine, and didn't run us into anything. I can see the future of this, where all things revolve around this silly little jonboat, and fishing trips. Soon they will be too big to take me with them. This makes me both sad and happy at the same time.

It has been a great weekend for the part of me that is DAD. 

6 miles on the legacy trail. 6 PM start.

7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM Bridge and back. 7 am start. 

7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM Bridge and back. 8 am start. Lower dew point today. Lots of sidewalk reconstruction made me run a slightly different route. 

8.1 miles in Downtown Sarasota. Started at noon. I started at Payne Park (I dropped Johnny at the skatepark.) to 301, to Brother Geenen, to Orange, to 41 then I did the old Ringling Bridge run, and back. 87 deg. 70% hum. 74 deg. d.p. "feels like" melted shoes and 97. 

On the way to the bridge, local Sarasota News Network Chief Meteorologist Justin Mosely was setting up for a report next to Marina Jacks. I was @ 10' from him, and I yelled "Hey, it's the weather man!" He smiled and waved, and said thanks. I don't see too many celebrities when I run. He's been a weatherman here for almost 20 years. Of course, most people know him from this: https://youtu.be/fGxB2hOZ5ZE

5.5 Mi. Hood Route. 8 a.m. start. Then I spent the whole rest of the morning and early afternoon out on the boat with the boys. The waterways were packed today. You can barely find a place to tie up at Snake Island. Both boys got to run the boat. They're pretty excited about the day.

3 on the trails. then I did a kind of circuit of situps, pushups, scissor kicks, cone running, ladders, something called frogs, shuttle run, and a couple laps around the soccer feilds with some kids from Tommy's old soccer team. I figure there was at least a half mile of running in there. Lesson learned - my core is awful. I haven't done situps in a very long time. I will feel this for sure later. 

7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail, over SWOM bridge and back. 7:30 am start. 101 on the heat index, and rising! The run actually felt decent, surprisingly. I had Billy Idol's "cradle of love" stuck in my head for some reason. 

7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. The run felt decent, despite the time off and the crazy heat/ humidity. 89 deg. 70% hum. 78 d.p. Feels Like 103.

For some reason, I had Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Fly from Heaven" stuck in my head.