Miles of Trials, Trials of Miles

7 miles in 55 minutes on the Clinton river trail before a long day of meetings.  Likely only run for today..mini taper for the half on Saturday.  (cortana)

4am...easy untimed 10K with Moxie on Sunnyside.  Got out early to get the run in before work travel.  (Ride)

Made it fine to our destination on the flight, but the drive to our hotel...well that was an adventure.  The main freeway was closed down about halfway there with no warning causing a huge backup, then they routed us off the with no detour ideas.  Luckily we had a map and a good sense of where we going, but through some tougher parts of town.   What should have taken us 45 minutes was about 2.5 hours of driving but we made it with no other issues.

Before dinner, Jeff and I ran on the Clinton River Trail from Dodge park...a great pathed running path!  I ran about 2.5 miles with Jeff in 17:30 (6:56), then ran harder back and extended it out a bit to the south for a solo 3.7 miles in 22:10 (5:59).  Overall a really good run in a neat location.  (Cortana)

4:30am...standard early easy 6 miles with Moxie before Kami had to go to work.  Tempo run at lunch today.  (Ride)

A warm day at lunch (75 degrees, full sun) for my tempo run. Started easy with 0.25M then started running harder and incoporated the w/u time into my tempo splits (did 0.25M into the beginning of the c/d part as well). Splits:  6:08, 5:38, 5:41, 5:58, 6:07 - didn't focus mentally and hip starting to tighten, 5:54, 6:41,~2:20 (0.35M) for a 6 mile tempo avg. of 5:54, full run average of 6:04 (total time 44:30).   A pretty good run, wanted a few more splits in the 5:40's but the heat and tightness in my hips caused me to slow a bit.  (Kinvara)

4:30am...7 untimed miles with Moxie.  Right at the start of the run I saw Alana and Shannon who took the shortcut to Sunnyside (about 0.5M) so I picked it up a bit to catch them at the 2.5 mile mark.  Ran with the ladies for about a mile before heading back home.  Nice early run (almost didn't go, this 4:30am thing is getting tiring). (Ride)

Will try to help at the 6th grade track practice at the stadium today. Approximately 2 miles worth of running helping with track practice (warmups, running with kids, running around the field, etc.).  Fun time, but the kids still don't seem to listen very well. (Kinvara)

Took Justin to the school to do some training for his 200m, he did great and ran a couple solid 200m times, getting used to running hard with good form.  He finished up 1.25 miles and I went out to finish 2.5 miles before it got dark. (Kinvara)

5 easy miles with Moxie before a day for Mom's.  Kids and I made breakfast for Kami in bed, went to a great day at church, did some yard work and dinner with my folks. 

Happy Mother's day to all the FRB Moms!