They all can't be "easy" runs.

7.5 miles. hood route. slow. 7 am start. I was on my feet a lot yesterday.

7.5 miles. hood route. 8:40 pm start. I had to wait until after kids' football practice. For the next 3 weeks, football practice is M-F 5:30-8:00. I'm going to have to think this out. I might run during their practice. Also, my Saturdays are going to be eaten up with this for the next couple of months. Not ideal for long runs. It's going to be a tricky balance to hit my weekly running goals, to prep for a race, and make football work. Meh, I'll be fine.

Oooooooooh, to be Prince Caspian, afloat upon on the waves....

3.5 miles. Hood route. 6:15 am start. I wanted more miles this morning but overslept.

6 pm. Celery Mound. 1 up. 10 x 0.1 mile hill sprints, jog down, with 1 minute rest between. 2 down.

I was running the warm up on the grass levee and at 1/2 mile into it, they had stopped cutting the grass. I was feeling pretty good, so I ran another 1/4 mile through knee deep grass. And then I thought - If I was a snake, I'd live here, so I turned around back through the grass, and cut my warm-up short. August in Florida - How much warm up do I really need? My warm up could be to jog across a parking space and I'd be all set. I chose an altenate route for the cool down.

It's been 3 weeks since my last set of hill sprints, and I sure felt it out there. Never thought I would be the "grunts while running" guy, but I got there today. Yeesh!

7.5 miles. hood route. 5:30 am start.

So much sweat! How much sweat? My running shorts were making slapping noises against my legs

7.5 miles. hood route. 9 pm start. Might have been hotter than it was this morning.

3.5 miles Hood route. 5:40 am start. 77 deg., 90% hum., 74 d.p. Hmm., Not that bad.

I'm going to try to bring back the long run tomorrow.

6 am start. 6 miles hood route. things went bad. Thank you McDonalds emergency stop. I'm going to try to improve this later.

6 pm. I took the boys to Legacy Trail so they could ride their bikes while I ran. I wanted 10, but Johnny was done after 5.5. The cool part was Tommy singing this out for almost the whole run: https://youtu.be/-T5xWkO56GI  I sang back up, while running. I always pick up the pace when I run with the kids, and the singing run was a little extra work.

I got home, and was still fairly ticked about the days effort, so out the door again for 7.5 hood route miles. I'm not going to count this as a triple, since I didn't change clothes after the run with the boys. It was about a half hour after the run with the kids. I went out with wet socks and shorts - gross, I know. Anyhow, the run felt really really smooth. I decided early in the run that I was going to kick the last mile, because everything was so going easy. It was hard to hold back pace early on. I kept speeding up and then reminding myself about holding back. I threw the kitchen sink at the last mile and got 6:27.

3 months from race day. Today started, well, really bad. But the finish gives me some hope.