After getting about 7 1/2 hours of sleep last night I woke up ready for another beautiful day of morning running. My son felt better this morning, and that's always good news. Last night we spent time looking for a mountain or rode bike for my wife. We have a bike trailer and she would like to ride to work every morning carrying my son in it. I don't want to spend over $400 dollars. I don't want a Walmart/Target/Sears brand, because that's what we have now and they just fell apart. Any suggestions or great deals you know of would be appreciated. I put this out of the buy/sell/trade forum in the discussion board.
I decided to run all the way up Pocatello Creek Rd and up the Buckskin Rd. hill. This is a 700ft climb over almost 5 miles (7:38 (warm-up) "starting climb" 7:29, 7:37, 7:25, 7:41) reaching the top the last 300m's is a 15% grade, it's a killer. After I reached the top I went back down and hit some tempo miles all the way back home (6:16, 6:14 6:06, "flat" 5:42) cool-down 6:25. In a tempo run I always seem to run the flat course miles faster than the downhill miles. I think I do this because I try to keep the same turn-over rate as when going downhill. Also I'm not really pushing the downhill that hard either on these types of runs as I do when I hit a flat section. "Knock on wood" but my knee seems to be doing well. Totals 11.25 miles at an overall 6:55 pace in 1:17:47 (Saucony Grid Triigon 4 - 545 miles)
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