Turn your rut into a groove.

pm--5.75 Rim Trail fun. It was overcast and a bit chilly but fun. I enjoy the trails.

pm--5.25 Anasazi w/ a little push the last 10 minutes. It felt good. Loving the trails and loving the core work I'm doing.

pm--5.75 Anasazi w/ partial chipmunk. Ended w/ the elevation gain of the beast. Think the last time I did this route the same thing happened.

pm--4.75 Barrel Roll to the outlook and back. Not as much very as most days last week.

pm--5.75 Anasazi w/ Chipmunk. Good climbing and an Adam sighting. The rain last night was nice and kept the ground soft.

pm--6 Sidewinder from the bottom. I witnessed flashes of lightning, rumbles of lightning, and sheets of hail. Nice time in the elements.

pm--6.25 Anasazi w/ Cholla extension w/ Andrew. What a good dude!

pm--3 Tready miles. 
 

I also finished a book of early Christian philosophy, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

am--5.75 Anasazi and Chipmunk w/ Tom. 
 

I finished a paradigm-shifting book, too. It's called Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chödrön. Great quick read.

pm--2.75 Single-file grass run. Stereo time on the 1st day of track practice.

pm--4.5 Heights for pace work. We turned around a minute more than half way and arrived back at the track exactly 35 minutes later. Nice work for the first try.

pm--4.25 Explored the gully trails for a while. The kids are antsy and wanting to run faster than before. I'm trying to keep them patient.

pm--3.75 Nice group run. We took it easy for 10 minutes to keep the whole group together. Finished w/ 4x striders on the track.

pm--5.75 Anasazi w/ partial Chipmunk. Nice run after easing into it. 

pm--7 Rim Trails at dusk. I listened to a podcast about Carl Rogers. He's a guy I need to look into more.

pm--5.25 Harmon's Trail as a negative split. Pretty solid progression for early building phase. 

pm--3.5 Snake Hollow paradise exploration w/ 4x 100-meter striders. Nice single-file running.

pm--5 Anasazi to the creosote. I listened to a Rich Roll podcast w/ Gabor Maté. What a man he is. 
 

I finished an in-class reading of The Old Man and the Sea, as well. I love that book and Hemingway's seeming simplicity.

pm--5.25 Heights Loop w/ 15 minutes of tempo. I averaged around 7:30. I also finished a great book on the craft of short stories by George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.

am--10.25 Suicidal Tendencies. I love this run because I always feel drained in a good way when I'm done. 

am--5.25 Anasazi w/ cholla. Kept it easy. I also finished Simon Armitage's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's a fun quick read about honor and chastity.

am--5.25 Climb to Paradise w/ 10 minutes uptempo on the way back. Nice start to the week.

am--4.5 Harmon's Trail w/ 5x form striders after. Feeling slow until I see at pace.

am--4.5 Fun run in the rain. At first, everyone was being wimpy. Once kids started puddle-jumping, fun was had by all.  

am 1--3.75 Nice run on the Mayor's Loop w/ Ellie, Josie, and Sylvia. Runs like this are such gifts.

am 2--6 Threshold work on the grass w/ 5x striders in the track. Finished w/ some barefoot on the turf.

I finished an interesting soccer book--Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation And Changed the Game Forever--by Jonathan Wilson. Great read in the wake of Argentina's WC success.

am--4 SC Drive w/ the boys this morning. It was fun chatting. Kids seem to be in good spirits after 3 weeks of building.

pm--6.25 Foggy Anasazi run w/ the full chipmunk. Great way to end the year. Some stats:

• 260 hours of running

• 100+ trail runs

• 110,000+ feet of climbing

I helped coach an athlete to the distance triple crown and sun-5 minutes for the 1600 this year, too.