Checking the Tank

Another Sunday where I did not get up early... sooner or later I will have to learn this lesson. Hot, 94 and steamy. Did the half trail and half bike path again. My oldest daughter graduated yesterday. I had trouble when the video of the old pictures went by. I am very proud of her and she is a GREAT kid. adult. Kid. Yes kid. We have a wonderful relationship and never suffered any of the 'teen' issues most people complain about. I believe this is because of the relationship with God she has and partly the home school development. There were 37 home school kids at the graduation ceremony, it was quite moving. These are the most outgoing kids you will see... so much for stereotypes.  

So yeah, I spent my run in the heat, sweating... yet just lost in thought... it was good.  

Took advantage of the schools being closed and ran up to the high school track. Warm 73/73 & sticky. Still limited in what I am green lighted to do for speed work, so trying to make the most out of it. 1.25 WU followed by 6x400m intervals w/200m slow recoveries. 1:27, 1:31, 1:29, 1:28, 1:32, 1:29 I was distracted on the 5th interval by some kids hitting on the glass at the stadium. Slow run back home, had to peel the shirt off.  

75 degrees & 100% humidity oh you know I loved waking up to that... Half trail/Half bike path, sticky- slow run, kept focusing on form. It rained about 15 minutes after my run and cooled it off... figures, but hey heat training is support to pay off more. 

Spending part of the evening trying to help my daughter on an expensive DSLR purchase. It's her post graduation/pre-college desire. She has to help in taking wedding photos this fall so she is all in right now.  

Trails, but a much nicer morning to run. 63 degrees 73% - huge improvement over yesterday. Relaxed run, no watch. 

Another nice to run. Of course still under restrictions so the plan was a 'lite' tempo. I figured 2 sub 10k in between 2 mp miles. Didn't go exactly as planned as the first mile I felt totally out of sync, so I cut one of the miles slower to get going. 8 overall, 3 tempo 7:28, 6:38, 6:45, some low 8 for cool down. a few deer on the path for viewing pleasure. 

63, and rain rain rain...lots of it. Part trails, part bike path. Rain felt good, run was slow and taking easy on the wet trails avoiding the potential fall.

Another nice day for a run. 66 and only 59% humidity. So after some of my newly famous Greek Yogurt pancakes I hit the local trails. Today I ran the very winding, hilly, wood&rock steeps and just overall difficult area to get a tough run in. Orange loop x3 and blue loop once. I did have to stop for a moment on lap 3 as there was a baby raccoon on the trail. They are not supposed to be out during the day!? I couldn't get it to move so I jumped over it.  ap 8:34.