Hope To Run Again Before End Of The Year

1.62 miles - 19:27 - 12:02 avg. -  - AZ & SZ

Drizzly when we started.  Downpour before we finished.  Ashleigh's first run in the rain.  She said it was fun !! 

Goose Egg

Treadmill - 3.11 miles - 27:50 - 8:56 avg.

Elliptical - 30:00 - 3 mile run equivalent

 Storms were closing in, I figured I had time for a 3 mile run.  But I was wrong.  Only a couple hundred yards from my house I was able to see the horizon better without trees blocking the view.  Saw sharp bolt of lightning.  Decided then to just go hard and go as far as I could before I stopped for the storm.  I cut off the last 1/2 mile.  Lots of lightning.  Leg did well, but cardio was strained. 

 Decided to go for 4 tonight.  Made a conscious effort to stay near 9:00 pace.  A little quick on the first mile, but I could live with it.  Had no clue my pace went the way it did for the second mile.  Too fast.  Back it up a little on the third mile.  But still faster than I should be pushing the leg right now.  Then just said the heck with it and cruised on the last mile.

Leg was fine on the run.  But now it is hurting 2 hours later.  Very tender when walking. 

Elliptical tomorrow .. yippy .. 

Left knee may have a bit of tendonitis and my right shin is tender.  But my calf feels fine.  The joys and PAINS of running.

Elliptical - 40:00 - 4 mile run equivalent 

Whew ! I don't know about it making me any stronger, but at least tonight's run did not kill me.  But it was close.  I was so drained at the end.  Thought about stopping many times over the last two miles.  It was hot and it was humid. The gnats were thick in the air, and the bats were flying low tonight.  When I looked in the mirror so many gnats were stuck to my skin.  The multitude of tacos in my belly that my wonderful wife had cooked for dinner did not help much either.  But I was happy to see that I did a negative split for the 2nd half of the run.  1st 3.1 - 27:20 / 2nd 3.1 - 26:41 - That's good for -39 seconds.