I was just curious how everybody's week transpired.  I've had one of my best weeks ever I think, and last month hit 100 + miles for the month. 

Monday started with my running group, and I ran with one of our members in our group here....ahem....A Holley....not that I would call anybody out or anything.  No, I wouldn't do that.  Anyway, a hello goes to Adrian, and welcome.  I enjoyed that run.  We run around the same pace so training runs with Adrian works perfect.  Monday was nice and cool, and our Monday run is 4.44 miles of very tough Dilworth hills, so the cool evening was much needed. We had a nice sprint finish and I don't think either of us were very tired. 

This course was created a few years ago for a past group called Sharksbite, and they did timed runs and posted the results on the net. Tim Long blogged the run, and still has an interesting blog site about his running out west with some of the big boys and girls running ultras.

This course is how I got started, embarrassingly really, as the times were there for everyone to see.  Most of the runners ran 9 or below.  Lots of 6, 7 and 8 minute milers, with a few college runners showing up, down to the fastest person I've seen run it.  5:42 pace I think.  I'm very thankful that Tim decided to use his writing skills and humor, to include the times of parents watching their younger kids running, (they got DNF's), dogs roaming the streets, or on leashes, (they got finishing times), a few delivery men, one poor skateboarder that fell down hard, and himself to round out the list to make sure there were always 5, 6 or more, at the very bottom. Tim helped me a lot and doesn't even know who I am.  I think I'll start running it twice; maybe in his honor.

I ran about 7.5 miles at the Whitewater Center on Saturday and that was fun.  Hot and tough.   I didn't see a lot of runners.  Mostly cyclists.  I was crazy enough to run in the heat I guess.  One couple kept getting humorously mad as I kept catching them.  The first time I went by 'em, the lady just about jumped off her bike. I'm a novice trail runner so now I know to make some noise when I catch the cyclists.  Had a nice meal watching the last of the rafters as the sun set. I finished my week today with another 6 at McAlpine Park, with about 27 miles this week. I only had to hurdle one snake.  He didn't pay me much attention.  Depending upon how I feel, I'll shoot for over 30 this coming week for the first time.

I'm running right now for the first time since I started with no pain in my calves so any mile I run, that relaxed, is fantastic.  Fast or slow, it just feels good to run.