Hillypalooza indeed!  about 8 miles over hill and dale in one of my favourite parks.  I liked it there so much that I stayed and swam for half an hour in the lake, too.

Avenger Doggie slays me.

I'm at 102.8 so I only have to run .2 to get a prime total!! 

Oh, since tomorrow is the last day of June, please try to plan your mileage to end on a prime number for the month!  Here's a handy table of primes for you!  

 

	2	3	5	7	11	13	17	19	23
29	31	37	41	43	47	53	59	61	67
71	73	79	83	89	97	101	103	107	109
113	127	131	137	139	149	151	157	163	167
173	179	181	191	193	197	199	211	223	227
229	233	239	241	251	257	263	269	271	277
281	283	293	307	311	313	317	331	337	347

Thanks for the prime number table, Wildchild! I'll admit to being a bit challenged in coming up with primes.... Deez, make that 4.2 miles to hit 107!

Mike, cute pictures. You sure have a crowd when the grandkids all show up. And I hear ya on struggling runs. More on that later.

Holly, nice ride! I wouldn't have considered a Hyundai a few years ago, but I think their quality has improved tremendously, and they sure have a good warranty. We'll be looking for a new (or new to us) car in the near future. It was going to be this summer, but the garage remodel project and new roof project have put that back a bit. As for your job, it just kills me. Working in HR, I fully see a FLSA violation with your situation. Sure wish someone would call in a DOL audit on your boss. Seriously. Your job is not exempt, and what he's doing is illegal.

Dave, I trip and twist my ankles sometimes too, but I love running trails. My problem is I have to drive to the good running trails. If I just leave from home, I'm on bike paths in full sun. Bleh. This leads into the understanding Mike E's struggling run today.

I didn't run Friday because of torrential rains in the afternoon when I wanted to run. By the way, we're looking at one of our rainiest June's on record. Gotta love it. What a great time to demo and rebuild a garage! Anyway after taking Friday off, Saturday looked wonderful and I headed out early afternoon for a 10 mile trot. I didn't realize my legs wanted to do a tempo run! So.... 8.5 miles at 7:57 or something like that. Then ran the last two miles up the hill to home, still going at a good clip considering the incline (8:13's or something like that).

So today, it was warmer and I wanted to get out earlier. Plan was for about 10 a.m. but I diddled around here too long and left at 11. It was already in the low 70's. We've had a cool rainy June so I'm really not used to the heat like I'd normally be this time of year.

Started out with tired legs and it got worse from there. Took me almost 3 clock hours to run 2:02 so I really didn't do very well. Drank 2 11 oz bottles of Nuun, another 11 oz bottle of water, and two stops at the Hampton Inn for water, maybe 4-6 oz each time. Ran from mile 5 to almost 11 with no water and that was way too long. Kind of died at the end coming back up the hill to home. DH picked me up at the road below ours and took me home in the truck, about a mile short of goal. I hate it when I bonk like this. Issues:
1) Ran too far/fast yesterday. Just because a tempo run feels good after a day off, doesn't mean it's a smart thing to do before a long run.
2) Ran too fast today. Those early miles were too fast, even with the favorable terrain.
3) Should've left by 10 a.m. and not 11:05. That hour made a big difference on a warm day.
4) Probably should've had more to eat before my run. An english muffin with P/B and jam at 9 a.m. didn't feel like enough.

So... will I learn any lessons? Probably not, but it's good to write down the stoopid things you did so you can at least try to avoid the same mistakes later. It got up to 79° today, which is much hotter than I'm used to. (That alone tells the sad tale of our cool wet summer so far....)