Turn your rut into a groove.

pm—5.25 Some running during the hill circuits. Beautiful day today.

pm—7 Easy run to finish the week. My achilles is aching a bit, probably the little bouts of speed throughout the week. 

pm—4 Missed practice because of a meeting and ran a bit when I got home.

I finished Night by Elie Wiesel. What a heavy and difficult book.

pm—5.25 Run on the River Trail. Not much to say.

am—2.25 A nice run w/ Addi and Ry. Got to hear a story full of colorful language.

pm—5.25 Warm and cool and some running during the 6-minute test. Kids are showing improvement after a month of training.

I finished The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. It’s a throwback western about brothers who are bounty hunters. Runs the gamut of emotions.

pm—3.5 After a long day, I did a short run.

pm—7.5 Run to the Sugar Loaf in nearly perfect weather. Fun run. What started as a bummer week has taken an upswing.

am--7.75 Same activity as 2 weeks ago. I biked to my parents' and ran Anasazi w/ Tom. I learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Still need to remember 2 ears and 1 mouth. 

pm--10 Stayed at the school during practice to chat w/ the sprinters and watch a few throwers. I ran when I got home and did a loop around the Canyons and added to Dixie Drive w/ pickups. I felt okay. 

pm—4.5 Middleton Trail. I was still feeling yesterday’s run.

am--2.25 A good run w/ the light skeleton crew. These runs are great. 

pm--6 Ran around during the 400s, jumping in here and there but mostly some clockwise work. 

It happened last week, but I'm just blogging it now. I finished The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Knowing the backstory creates an ominous read. Nonetheless, there is some great advice in the book, and I can't help but tear up every time I read about leaving memories for his children, especially the fact that he was the first man to ever love his daughter. As a dad of 3 daughters, I concur. 

pm—5 Nice, rainy run into Green Springs. Lots of fun watching the kids do some puddle jumping.

am--2.25 Nice run w/ a bigger crew to the bank and back, basically. 

pm--6 I ran around here and there during the tempo work. Probably should've just jumped in w/ a group because running clockwise on a track gets me going. 

pm—4.25 Didn’t have much help w/ the little guy today, so this was the extent of my running. Highest week in a couple months.

pm—1.5 Stomach pains cut the run short. Perhaps, I should figure out my GI issues.

pm—5.25 Telegraph w/ Sandberg’s on the return trip. Added bonus was that we had the great Jacey Finch on the run.

am--2.25 A nice run w/ the senior crew.

pm--6 Some running while the kids did some repeats. It was chilly out. 

I also finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and noticed that the book moves forward nicely as long as Huck and Jim are moving. Once they hit Pikesville, everything stops. That being said, I still get a good laugh out of Tom's antics. 

pm—4.75 GreenSprings w/ snowballs instead of puddles. A fun run w/ the crew.

am—2 I’m loving the morning runs lately.

pm—5.5 Sone running while the kids did hill circuits. My legs are tight.

pm--5.5 Weekends are hard. But I did get a run in. There always seem to be some kind of time crunch. 

am—9 Loop around Foremaster on the long run w/ some pickups. It was a nice wintertime run.

I finished another book—The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. This is the first of 3 Hugo winners for this author, all from the same series. It was an okay read but not exceptionally memorable.

pm—3 Late run cut short because my body wasn’t loosening up.

am—2.25 The few crew to the bank and back.

pm—6 I did the warm and cool and some running while the kids did a time trial/workout.

pm--4.25 Run towards Sullivan and back w/ Brinley and Jenna. Most people did their longer run this morning, so they could go to the game. I erged 2k (8:50) after. It's been a while since I've rowed.