Turn your rut into a groove.

pm--5 Anasazi/Cholla/Fishhook. Decent run after sitting around and planning all day.

am--5.25 Up to Fort Santa Clara and back. I felt sluggish this morning but good to get a run. 

am--5.5 Softball field loops w/ shoes. It's too cold for barefoot, now. Interesting morning of thoughts.

am--6 Canyons and back. I felt better this morning and ended w/ a 20-min. tempo.

I also finished my annual read of Ender's Game. I still love it.

am--7.25 Rim Circuit. It's been a while, and I realized that there is a certain comfort on these trails. It was a bit windy but warmer than recent days. When I left the trailhead, the bikers were converging. There wasn't enough parking space for all of them. Saw plates from a few different states. I'm wondering what these people are doing here on a random weekend in November. 

pm--6.25 Anasazi to the homestead w/ Tom. Awesome as always. Kind of interesting that my 2 longest runs of the week were in the same day. Maybe, I should double a time or 2 every week.

pm--6 Variation of usual morning route w/ a slip into a construction trench in the dark. No damage, thankfully. Other than some tenderness in my left achilles, I felt pretty good. 

pm--7.5 Sidewinder and back from the blacktop. Nearly 800 ft. of climbing before flipping. I have about 800 m (~2,400 ft.) of vert in 10 days. It boggles my mind that someone on Strava has 27,000+ m in the same time. What do his quads look like? What does he do for a living? Fun to wonder.

pm--4.5 Tready w/ some Bundesliga on the tube. 
 

I finished Pride and Prejudice for the umpteenth time. 

pm--6 Anasazi w/ Chipmunk. I've never taken that side trail before. It was just an old road, so maybe not as exciting as the route to the homestead, but was okay. My watch acted up for the first mile as far as the elevation gain goes. That's frustrating. I liked my previous Suunto for that exact reason, but this watch hasn't been quite the same standard. That being said, I got some decent climbing today. 

pm--6.5 Anasazi to the homestead and back w/ Tom. Took it easy today and chatted about electronic music.

pm--6.25 Anasazi to homestead at a decent place. Nice afternoon. 20x leg extensions, 20x  squats, 10x push-ups, and 30-sec. plank after. 
 

I finished The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. It picks up the Dark Tower series quite a bit from The Gunslinger. The SK appeal is tangible.

pm--6.25 New Heights loop w/ 20 minutes of progressive tempo, working from 7:45 to 7:15. It's fun to see that happen at the end of a run that starts out rough. 

pm--6.25 Anasazi to the homestead. I'm feeling a little beat this week and a bit off. A run makes everything better, though.

pm--6.25 I combined my newer morning route w/ some grass loops. Left the shoes on this evening because my achilles was a bit iffy. I figured it wasn't the wisest idea to barefoot anything. That being said, I felt pretty good most of the run.

am--6.25 Cemetery and back. This morning was a bit of a slog, but Fridays have found me missing runs the last couple weeks. Even a slog is a win today.

am--6.25 Anasazi to the homestead w/ Andy and Tom. Beautiful morning. I hit a 10k everyday. Nice experiment. Perhaps, I'll keep it up.

pm--6.25 Anasazi to the homestead. Really felt some flow on the way back. I stopped to chat w/ a guy about the petroglyphs and got to pet his Bernese Mountain Dog.

pm--6.25 Anasazi again. I hit my 2,000 meters this month. Can I add another 1,000 this week? Quads willing.

pm--6.25 Anasazi, again. Felt the best of the 3 days. Had lunch w/ a good friend who's in town for the weekend.

am--6.25 Anasazi for the 4th time this week. I took it easyish but could feel some fatigue. The trails are great. It's fun to see some regular denizens in the dirt. 
 

Happy Thanksgiving.

pm--6.25 Anasazi to the homestead for the 5th time this week. There's something beautiful and meditative about repetition. I saw Micah and his fam.

am--6.25 Anasazi all week. I also hit the 10k-a-day plan for the 2nd week in a row. Good convo w/Tom today. 
 

I also finished Leading with the Heart by Coach K.--it's one of the better coaching books I've read--and Romance of the Grail by Joseph Campbell. I need to remember to keep Campbell, probably Vonnegut, too, in a regular rotation. They keep me grounded.

pm--7 Anasazi again w/ but extra than most days. I hit 3k climbing this month. It's a fun challenge to run on the trails and climb.