Turn your rut into a groove.

am--3.5 .5 barefoot warm-up and then a jaunt to Hell's Hole trail head and back. 

am--4 Mostly barefoot on the soccer field grass. 

pm--6 Barrel Roll w/ Tom. Today's run is what running is for me, a chance to get outside and move through nature.  

am--3.5 .5 Barefoot warm-up and an out-and-back w/ the kids. Got some soccer and tennis chat in on the run.

am--3.5 .5 Barefoot warm-up then ran w/ the girls up the Turtle road and back. Breathing was more strained than preferred. 

pm--4 Some tready miles while watching Star Wars IV w/ my girls. We're Star Wars freaks. 

am--4.5 .5 Warm-up and a run out to AHERN and back. On the way back, the front group pushed the pace. I'm a little out of shape. 

am--4.5 .5 Barefoot warm-up and then a few timed easy miles up by Maverick to internalize the feeling. 

am--4 Once again, mostly barefoot on the soccer field grass. I like days like this. 

pm--6.5 Anasazi w/ Tom to the homestead and back. Nice evening.  

am--4.5 Nice run up into Grapevine. Ran mostly w/ Kaylee and Laub and Curls. Pace was pretty stout for what I have been running. Felt good though. 

pm--6.5 Ran on the tready w/ .5 x 8.5%, .75 x 5%, and 1 x 3.5%. Oddly enough, I wore my old UVM shirt today and finished our 1st summer cycle of the Star Wars movies. 

am--5 Barefoot warm-up and headed out to the tortoise fence then ended up doubling back to run w/ Liz so she wasn't all alone. Nice morning in the desert. 

am--5 Parkway the Maverick route then ~ a mile w/ my girls to get some running club miles. 

am--5.5 Did some dirt miles--3 to be exact--at the following paces: 9:20, 9:00, and 8:40. We are trying to learn an easy pace. Somewhere between the last 2, closer to the last one, is probably about where they should be. 

am--4.5 Just chilling on the grass. Followed it up w/ some running at the kids club. 

pm--1.5 Ran from my wife's grandparents' house to my sis-in-law's apartment. This wasn't a good weekend for my running. 

am--4.5 Ran down into Hell's Hole w/ Kaylee and JP. The pace was good. I wish we could get more girls believing in themselves, so we could all run together. The boys are running in a pack. Awesome stuff. 

am--5.5 Barefoot warm-up then dirt miles--8:20, 8:10, and 7:58. Stuck w/ Kaylee the whole time. Stoner was with us the first 2 laps, and Megan hung w/ us the first and fell off just a bit the second 2. All the girls did well. 

pm--5 Fartlek w/ 1-mile warm-up and 1-mile cool-down. 1 @ 7:30 in 400 meter intervals w/ equal distance recovery. .5 @ 7:00 in 200 meter intervals w/ edr. .25 @ 6:45 in 200 meter intervals w/ edr. Felt good to open up the stride a little.  

am--7.5 A nice run up through Green Springs w/ Kaylee and Stoner. The pace still feels a bit brisk for me, maybe it's mental, maybe it's fitness, maybe it's both. Hit a mile of striders afterward. The run worked me but made me better. Looking forward to running on grass tomorrow. 

am--4.5 Mostly barefoot on the grass. I did put in a bit more playing around w/ the kids and doing a cool-down w/ my daughter. Nice day for running. 

am--4.5 Ran in the fields. It was kind of nice--all the flatness. 

pm--7 When I don't get up and run first thing on Saturdays, it becomes difficult to run. Nevertheless, I ran. In fact, I ran 4 of the 7 miles @ roughly 7:35 pace. Felt good. I watched a History Channel production about Star Wars and the many allusions therein. Fascinating. 

pm--6 Same workout as last Tuesday but didn't go up and down. I just doubled it all on the way up--4 x 400 @ 7:30, 4 x 200 @ 7:00, 4 x 100 @ 6:50, and 4 x 100 @ 6:40 all w/ equal distance rest in between. 

pm--5 Easy miles. I wanted to run this morning but woke up w/ a headache. Bumhair.

pm--8.5 Ran up into Dixie Downs and through Ivins and back into Santa Clara w/ some neighbors. 

pm--4.5 easy miles on the tready. I've been lazy about waking up this week.