Easy 5 on the roads this a.m. - ridiculously humid, but not too hot.  Continuing to ice both achilles.

QOTD:  NRR, but have you read any good books lately?  I started reading the first Game of Thrones on vacation a couple of weeks ago - I didn't expect to like it so much but it's a real page-turner.

Morning Trailers!  got a nice 6 mile run in this morning, we're getting a one day reprieve from the heat wave, sadly it's back tomorrow

qotd: I just finished Kilian Jornet's Run or Die, pretty good window into his life

I should do 10 after work. I have a town meeting at 7, so I have about 3 hours to kill. It won't take that long to run 10 miles, but I'll do some weights, too.

QOTD: I recently read "The Big Burn". It is a book that John M. sent me as a trade for "Illumination in the Flatwoods". I would have sent him the book without a trade, but it was nice to get some good reading material in a swap. He is a nice guy, that John. Anyway, TBB was a  great book. I couldn't put it down. It is basically about the beginnings of the USFS and the disastrous burn that occurred in the West back in the early 1900's. But there is a lot more to it than just a recounting of the burn. Character development was great.

5 easy trail miles with the pup this morning. It was a bit warm for 4 AM but it's supposed to cool off.

QOTD: No, but I'm looking for ideas, so this is helpful.

Pushed myself for 9 mile tempo-hill run.  Hot and humid, and really was only going to do 7 miles, but just before cresting the top "American Pie" came on the iPod.  I decided to run down the other side until the song was over (I know, a long song).  The I turned around to head back up the hill that I had just added to the run, and the next song was James Taylor's "Lonesome Road" (if you don't know it, he usually closes his live shows with it).  Pretty fitting, and gave me a smile.  I don't usually run with music, but it really helped me today.

QOTD:  Just finished "The Martian".  It's about a guy stranded on Mars when his crew assumes he was killed in an accident (think Castaway meets Apollo 13).  Very nerdy read as it's covered with technical data.  Movie is in the works with Matt Damon starring and directed by Ridley Scott.  For me, the movies are never as good as the book.

I posted this morning before work but when I hit the post button it all vaporized, so sooner or later I suppose that post will appear. Went out to the Arb early this morning to run some trail intervals but since I didn't feel like 800's I brought along a wheel and measured out a 300 meter course, took a look around and quickly spray painted a line in the gravely spot (used green for the environment)  So then I knocked out some fairly quick intervals. Felt good to get the legs turning.

QOTD--Slacker as of late but i do like NRR Q's.  I'll read some Sigurd Olson stuff next week on vacation at my shack.

Interesting conditions for last night's run. I did some radar watching and took a pass on my planned run at Green Lane and hit the hills and woods of Coventry Woods instead. Pouring rain as I left the house but radar showed an opening in that direction so off I went. Just some clouds and drizzle/light rain when we started with some thunder out in the distance to the north. Really not too concerning. Once in the woods though it was very dark and we opted for the steep climb to start off instead of the longer corkscrew climb that is longer but more gentle. The hill side really slopes away at a steep angle in this direction and you could actually see the humidity in misty pockets of fog settling up in the trees up the slope. We hit the ridgeline after 2 miles for the flat part of the run. Honestly I couldn't tell if there was rain, moisture falling off the leaves, or dripping sweat but I was soaked. I kept hearing sounds high in the trees that sounded like wind but the tree tops were still. It was a bit dark and eerie but the after the 3rd mile the run heads down the other side of the ridge and it was lighter as the trees aren't as thick. Oddly enough there were a few folks fishing at LadyB's swimming hole but they didn't seem to mind her stopping for a drink. We headed back up the ridge after that and the humidity finally started getting to me on the climb. I felt better at the top but I was at that point where it was hard to see the rocks on the trail clearly because of sweat stained glasses and the darkness. I started hearing that sound up in the trees again while up on the ridge and by the time I rounded the loop on the orange trail I could tell a deluge was coming. That was the sound I heard. Rain approaching in the treetops. So it started to pour but there was no wind or lightening just heavy rain on a humid summer night. Running downhill to finish up in the rain. It was about perfect.

Could be something like that today again I suppose.

QOTD: I am finishing up book5 of Game of Thrones. Really, where is the next book already? After that is a Michael Connelly novel, the most recent one I think, but I don't recall the name. He is one of the few crime story authors I enjoy. Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer are in it I think.

Madison Mandy - Running intervals!  : pinkelephanthappydance:

Should be able to do a lunch or evening ride up to Skyline.

Day off from PT exercises, back on tomorrow.

QOTD: I did like Run or Die .... I was going to start The Lie by Helen Dunmore ...