They all can't be "easy" runs.

5.5 miles of awful, miserable slogging. Hood route. 7 am start. bad diet and bad sleep last night. 

5.5 miles. hood route. 7:30 am start. slow and ugly. Apparently there is a tropical storm near the other side of the state. You would not know it, based on what I'm seeing. Same old stagnant humidity. 

5.5 miles. hood route. 7:00 am start. I had this stuck in my head: 

https://youtu.be/n3CfvXnawOo

10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia and back. 7 am start. Very slow.

10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to Colonia and back. 7 am start.Weather felt slightly better than yesterday.

I saw 7 other runners today. That is 7 more than normal. One runner got on laurel road at the same time as me, and we were going in the same direction, so we had to race without him knowing it, and he had to get beat. 

5.5 miles. hood route. 6 am start. I used to run in hte dark all of the time. Now this seems odd. 

10 miles of ugly. West Venetian Waterway park from the north bridge to Caspersen Beach and back. halfway at 12:30 pm. Smoldering. 91 deg. 64% hum.  77 d.p., feels like 105. I totally bit off more than I could chew. 

lesson of the week - When working from home, don't turn on your computer until after your run.

Last 3 days are like this: Well, I'll just respond to this e-mail, Well, I'll just answer that question, Hey look, it's 11:00 am! I guess I'm not running today. 

7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 7:00 am start. 

3.5 Miles. Hood route. 7:30 am start. 

7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 7:00 am start. Excellent cool rain for the first 3/4 mile! Then depressing humidity/bonus gravity for the rest of the run. 33:30 to legacy trail. untimed over the bridge and back. 34:45 back. As soon as I stopped running, the rain started again. 

7.75 miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail over SWOM bridge and back. 7:00 am start. Rained the whole run through. But the sun stayed out. so for the 2 miles I ran to the east, the reflection off the wet road was blinding. On the other hand - RAINBOWS!

I was okay running in the rain this morning. Then the lightning got crazy and I said NOPE! and went home. It has been crashing lightning and raining cats and dogs ever since, so I might not get back to it today. 

So I'm looking around the blog at dudes that are really stepping their game up with paces right now. First off, well done. Second, I can't get it going without a race on the horizon. How do you do it? Rhett breaking off 5 mile tempos in 110+ degrees? What? The workouts that Rob M has been doing lately? Crazy. Michael doing a marathon pace workout just because? I know I'm supposed to get motivated by seeing you guys do this stuff. But honestly, you're making me depressed and I feel like a lazy bum. 

Now excuse me while I eat this big bowl of nachos with queso for breakfast. 

pm: inspired at 6 pm, I went to the track with no rain. I ate bugs for 3 laps, and cleared them frequently from my eyes. Then I went home. 

1.5 miles. 6:20 am start. then home for an emergency bathroom stop. then 5.5 miles hood route. 

10.2 miles. hood route tolegacy trail to colonia and back. 1 mile thrown in at 7:24 pace. 7:30 am start. overcast, but no rain. 80 deg. 91% hum. 77 d.p.

5.5 miles. hood route. 7:40 am start. We went to an awesome murder mystery party at the neighbor's house last night. There was a lot of really rich food. Which was great at the time, but not so much this morning. I'll be getting away with spouse for a couple of days. 

6 Mi on the beach on Clearwater Beach. 7:30 a.m. start. North to the mangrove shell tree and back. I saw a group of a dozen dolphins in the surf.

5.5 miles from Clearwater Beach down gulstream and gulf blvd., over the bridge to Sand Key Park, down the beach in the park and back to Clearwater Beach. 7:30 am start. Then a very large musclebound dude riding a bicycle rode by as I was sitting on the seawall. He was singing the end part of Prince's Purple Rain, and totally nailing it. Those are crazy high notes to be coming out of a person of that build. Anyhow, I started swaying my arms back and forth in the air like I was at a concert. That made him laugh. Then swimming / bodysurfing in the gulf. Then the ride home. Sigh... 

...Back to reality. 

5.5 miles. hood route. 7:30 am start. I was walklng to the run start, and my neighbor was out walking her dog. I have known this person for 35+ years, and was once good friends with her sons. I talk to her either walking to, or returning from almost every other run. She asked me about my kids and school. I told her they start back on Monday. It took 2 more questions from her to turn it into a political debate. Although I am stunned about how quickly that escalated, the bright side is....I ran faster than usual today. 

5.1 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia, and then things went bad. I had to walk for a long time. Then I jogged in the last 1.75. It was super hot and humid. 79 degree dew point. dishwasher-esque. no wonder I fell apart. 

5.5 miles. hood route. 6:45 am start. 86 deg., 75% hum., 77 d.p.

5.5 miles hood route 6:15 am start. Song in my head - Welcome by 311.

Then (since they have made the student pick up and drop off requirements so cumbersome) a 15 minute bike ride with boy #2 to school, and then 15 minutes back.  It's about 3 miles-ish. When I go to ride home with him this afternoon, I have to remember to bring hand snips. The branches are tough to get by on the sidewalk in places.

Here's to the end of the longest spring break ever. 

Also, our family has become hooked on the Cobra Kai TV show on netflix. It's about time that Johnny Lawrence got a backstory.