They all can't be "easy" runs.

7.5 miles. hood route. 5:45 am start. 200 m of "sprint" in the middle somewhere. I ran in old shoes to try something different. 70 deg., 94% hum.,, 68 d.p. No air movement of any kind. Running in a winter wonderland. 

I found a golf ball and vice grips this morning. They were not in the same location. But if you saw someone running with a golf ball and needle nose vice grips, you would assume... .... 

5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. Slightly cooler, but it rained all day yesterday, so still very humid out. Bestmanspeechmiles. Big day is tomorrow. The boys look rad in their tuxedos.

5.5 miles. Hood route. 8 AM start. Great run way faster than i expected

But that's what happens when you have people to pass. Andy's wedding went great. I might have tanked my best man speech. Today went great.

5.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. Cooler, but misty. "Sprint" ed for a chunk in the middle somewhere.

5.5 miles. Hood route. 100 m "sprint" in there. 5:45 am start. 66 deg. 85 % hum., 61 d.p. sliver of a moon.

p.m. at track. 2.25 up + strides. (10) x 100 m sprints, with 100 m recovery jog. 1 down. Just keeping some speed, while i'm cooking up my master plan.

5.5 miles. Hood Route. 5:45 am start. 59 deg., 94% hum., 57 d.p. It felt much warmer than that. My explnation for this week - just too much dancing last Saturday. They had a good first dance song - https://youtu.be/Ec8BDAtlc7E It was stuck in my head this morning.

Sore spots in a couple of places. ah, crap. 

7.5 miles. Hood route. 5:45 am start. I still have a sore right heel, and right knee feels a bit off, but i kept the pace pretty quick, and had a longer "sprint" than normal. 70 deg., 90% hum., 67 d.p. very thick fog. 5k on friday? I don't feel really ready, but i feel like it's time for a race. Hmmmm.

Something different tonight. I ran in a community in North Port, called Island Walk.They have a bunch of small bridges, maybe 7' climb in 20' span. It was kind of unique. Anyhow, 5:45 pm start. 1.5 up. (2) x 800, crossing 5 bridges. 2:51, 2:59. Then a half hour of weights in their clubhouse. Then a half mile down.

12.9 miles. Legacy Trail to Venice Avenue and back. Longest run in a while.little "Sprint " near the end. 53 deg., 69% hum.,39 d.p. nice breeze moaning through the australian pines. Wicked low tide. Oyster beds.

3.5 miles. Hood route. The return of summer.

MONDAY RUN.

Moar Monday stuff.- 6:30 pm start. 2.4 up with bridges in village isles. Weight training. Then 2.4 down.

1.5 miles. Hood route. 6:45 am start. Run cut short for bathroom stop, then i never went back. Still in the 50's here, but scheduled to be in the 80's tomorrow again.

70 deg. 90% hum. 67 d.p. but it felt warmer than that. Even by my standards, this weather is crazy. Still have to run the AC and the irrigation.

5:30 am start. 2 laps around the block, then home, then the usual 5.5 mile hood route.

3:30 pm start. 80 something degrees.I had to do a site visit for work. I decided to do it running. Something about running on the clock for work is cool. Anyhow, the site is a section of roadway a little more than a mile long. I was taking pictures. So i would run @ 60 paces, stop, take pictures, run @ 60 paces, etc. Down one side and back on the other. Running in a FDOT approved construction vest must have looked great. Finished that.

Drove to the track.2 up, (12) x 100 m, with jog back. 1.5 down. There was a guy on the track who will be running a 100 mile trail run in 10 days. I talked with him for a while. Not for me, man, not for me.

2001! A sweat Odyssey.

79 deg., 85% hum., 72 d,p,  I still threw in a "sprint" for fun.  Merry Christmas, y'all!

11:00 am at the track. I really wanted to run today, and this is when I had the time to go. I took boy #2. He wanted to try out his new christmas shoes. 86 deg., 64% hum. (that seems low), 72 d.p. Shirtless, and now sunburned. 2 up. (12) x 100 M sprints, jog back. 0.5 down. 

We met a guy out there that was running short sprints. He says he ran competatively indoors in europe last year. Johnny started asking him questions, and he was pretty cool about it. He even let Johnny run out of his starting blocks a couple of times. The guy told Johnny that he was really fast. I can't tell if this guy was being genuine, or if he was trying to get me to enroll my kid in some sort of coaching thing. 

10 miles with an old friend on the legacy trail. 7 am start. Hot and humid, but great conversation. He took me and the boys to see the new star wars last night. Excellent movie. It made me realize that the problem with the prequel series of movies was the absence of humor. This flick brings back the funny. I'm no star wars expert, but that difference was obvious.

3.6 miles. Hood Route. 6 am start. 70 deg., 67% hum., 69 d.p.

6 pm: Mini bridge running in Island Walk. 2.4 up. 30 minutes weights. 2.4 down. 

4.5 miles. on the Legacy Trail with Boy #2 on his bike. 70 deg., 100% hum., If I'm going to get summertime weather, I'm going to do summertime runs.  

5.5 milrs. Legacy trail with Johnny on his bike again. Today, we waited until after sunrise. The fog this morning was super thick. Crossing Dona Bay and Roberts Bay was really cool. He told me to "kick it up a notch" for the last mile. 6:38. Yesterday, the surf was pretty big for gulf coast standards. The life guard whistled and yelled at us, so we went to a no-life-guard beach. The boys had saucer sized eyes dropping in and riding the waves on their boogie boards. It's one of those Best Dad or Worst Father kind of things.

5:30 pm: Island Walk Mini Bridge 800's. The last time I did this, I had measured the 800s wrong. They were 57' short. Problem is now fixed. Anyhow, 81 deg., 77 % hum., 73 d.p. No breeze. None. Bonus Gravity. 2.7 up. (4) x 800 over 5  mini-bridges w/ 4 minute rest between. 3:01, 3:05, 3:02, 3:07. 2.7 down. The cool down was pretty difficult. I still go over the bridges on the warm up and cool down. They break the stride. They are inconsistently spaced, and have transitions that are arced, like a skateboard ramp. Fun stuff. To see the bridges, Google image search this: island walk bridge west villages.