They all can't be "easy" runs.

3.5 miles. Hood route. Talked to the shirtless tire dragger for a bit. Dude is always trying to recruit me for a spartan race. I have no interest.

PM: 0.5 up. 10 X 0.15 hill (bridge) sprints, jog downhill recoveries. 0.5 down. Pretty sunset on top of the north Bridge. Still with the red tide stink though. I have had Jim Croce's photographs and memories album stuck in my head for a couple of days. It started with "one less set of footsteps", and then basically the rest of the album got on The mental playlist. Except "time in a bottle". That song is just awful.

7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. 77 deg., 67% hum., 65 d.p. 1:07:32. 9 min/ mile pace. 34:00 out. 33:32 back. Really steady. A smart guy would have started 2 hours sooner (and 15 degrees cooler). 

7.5 miles. Hood Route to legacy trail and back. 1:00:21. 8:03 pace. 77 deg., 75% hum. 69 d.p. I really wanted less than an hour on this run. So close.

Was it last night's pizza? Was it the heat? Was it the pollen in the air? Nope. It was a bunch of idiot drivers that are going to get themselves in car accidents, if they keep stopping in the middle of 45 mph roads. If I'm in the crosswalk, driver stops - fine. If I'm 30 yards from the crosswalk, the driver should proceed through. When I didn't time my runs, none of this would matter. I would stop, turn my back on the intersection until the driver got the message. But now that I care about my times again, this is becoming a thing. So, in addition to avoiding heat, I should run sooner to avoid traffic. I go by 2 schools that open at 8 am on this run. So I need to be moving by 6:30, or wait until 8:15. 

Oh yeah, we had celebration pizza last night. Boy #1 got accepted into welding school, and we are all kinds of stoked. He's going to be marine mechanic by day, welder by night for the foreseeable future. When you see your kids apply themselves to something, something that will eventually lead to the parent's planned obsolesence, that calls for stuffed crust sausage pizza. 

3 on the trails. then 1.5 hood. 1:30 pm start. 80 deg. 62% hum., 65 d.p.

I'm sick. this stinks. things were going well. I'm sitting here, debating whether or not I should just go to the track to do today's scheduled workout or not. 

5.5 miles. hood route. Okay, turns out this is like "allergies" more than "sick." Today's run was a test. Still mad at myself for sacrificing last night's track stuff. 2 weeks of Thursday night speed cowardice. 44 days until race day. I might have bitten off more than I can chew.

20.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over circus bridge to caspersen beach and back. I'm going to say -not my best run. 80 deg., 71% hum., 70 d.p. We still have the red tide dead fish stink. Also, pollen covering eveything. Further, I ran out of water with 4 miles to go.