Turn your rut into a groove.

am--5.75 After a long 3 days of no real running, I braved the elements with a neighbor this morning. We have a similar pace and the conversation is good. This is the first real morning--5ish amish--that I've done for a while. Forgot how it infuses my day with awesomeness.

 pm--7.5 Loop around Clary in the windy wind.

pm--7 I ran the old Swiss Days w/ some extension and roughly 3 miles of tempo in the middle--7:20/mile pace on the tempo miles.

am--6.25 I think I found me a morning running partner a couple days a week. We keep a pretty steady pace and can do some chatting. It feels really good to start off a day with a run. I think the perfect day would start with a run.And end with one too?

pm--5.5 Felt beat today but kept a pretty good pace. It was one of those days you just have to run through. 

pm--7.5 Lower Graveyard/Cholla loop w/ Een 'oog extension.

pm--3.5 A cold, windy run to get my miles up a little before tomorrow's 17. The Landreth 5s are feeling better.

am--17 I packed a GU and some water in my amphipod and headed out to the hills for a long run. I hit the SCRR up the Barrel Roll trail w/ a detour on a new trail called the Sidewinder and finished off a few miles on the Black Brush trail. The vistas were great, and I think I've found my favorite shoes to run around in the dirt in--the Saucony Rides. The  temps were perfect. The only things that kept this run from being perfect were the headwinds and the dufuses shooting guns in the reserve, towards trails even. This is my longest run to date.