They all can't be "easy" runs.

10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia and back. Hot and windy. This was work.

I had an old guy (never seen this guy before) on a bike following @ 20 yards behind me for the last quarter mile. When I finished the run and rounded the corner to walk home, he said "the concrete's bad for your knees." I said "what?" He said "Running on concrete's really bad for your knees. I've had both of my knees replaced." I said "Getting hit by a car is worse for your knees, so I'm going to stay on the sidewalk." He just shook his left hand in the air in a 'whatever' kind of movement.

Disclaimers: 1. I think it's super ironic that he was riding on the concrete sidewalk, and not the asphalt bike lane. 2. My response would have been nothing if my kids were present. I live in a town of old people, and I'm not teaching them to be disrespectful to the olds, even the ones that give the unsolicited advice. 

5.5 miles hood route. hot + humid bonus gravity like summer. I lost my house key somewhere out there. I went back to look for it with spouse for about 30 miinutes. no dice. whoever finds it is going to have to guess what house it belongs to, if they want in. The tiny little key pocket in the running shorts - it had a hole in the bottom of it. That makes it not a pocket, but a useless flap of dryfit material really. 

4 on the trails. 9:45am start. I have had a little stomach bug for the last day or so. 

7.5 miles. Hood route to legacy trail and back. 8:15 am start. The weather was great. My eyes were just a bit itchy from the pollen.

My head was filled with worry of raising teenage boys with so much time on their hands. School work now gets finished in less than 3 hours. I'm hoping I can get them to do something productive with their time. In hindsight, I now wonder if the outrageous schedule we were ruled by was doing more to keep my kids out of trouble, than excellent parenting. 

1 on the trails, then much later, to the track. 0.5 up. Then (8) x 200M w/ 200M AR. 46,46,44,44,43,43,42,42. Then 0.5 down. It rained this morning, so the steam heat coming up from the track was crippling. I wanted to see how many of these I could do at this pace, but I was with a friend that wanted to workout with me. He's way younger and faster than me, but he can do like one rep. I could tell he was getting bored, so I packed it up, even though I was showing no signs of slowing.