10 miles for me. The last 2.5 were speedy.

Holy shit am I alive right now? LOL. OMG...HARD. WORKOUT. Dewpoint dipped a little bit last night but not much - 75/72 dewpoint. It did feel better than yesterday (that is hard to believe). I was having a hard time keeping it slow the first 7 miles..was trying to shorten my stride to do so. Weird. The last 2.5 I somehow was keeping my pace at the low to mid 9's. WTF. I practically crawled up the driveway when I was done. Oh man I am WIPED. Had to sit for a while and chug water because I was lightheaded!

We aren't doing much today. HCF's friend is coming over this morning for coffee - she is awesome. She is actually one of the "groomsman" in the wedding. She used to OWN a bridal shop!! She sold it about 6 months ago. DAMN. Wouldnt that have been awesome?! Anyway..we may grill out later but not sure. Its hard to go out and do anything tonight since we have to work tomorrow! It is like a Sunday all over again!

Docket - Well, let me tell you. You can really rock some humidity hair

Run4kupcakes - YUM blueberries!!

Karen - Completely agree - the treadmill will be good for those hard workouts. Good luck today!!

Tessa - Nice double runs yesterday! I feel like you are always busier when you WFH

Ginny - Let us know how today went!!!

Have a great holiday everyone!

Happy 4th of July to everyone celebrating.  Happy Wednesday to everyone else.    Heading out soon to do a local 5 mile race this morning with DH, followed by breakfast.  Have some chores to do today and DH flies out for a business trip tonight.  So yes, feels like a Sunday.  

Lizzie, nice speedy miles!  I don't really have a speedy gear.  My 5 mile race today will be, umm, interesting.  And not fast.

Judy, yes, stay hydrated and use ice!

Karen, congrats on the new treadmill!  Saw that you did your July 4th race.

Ginny, if you did the 10k, I hope it went well!

Hi to everyone else!

5K done. It sprinkled on the way there and during my warm up (which was only a little over a mile, it was so hot and humid I didn't want to overheat before the race even started), then stopped raining for the race, of course. So 79 degrees, dew point 78, but at least it wasn't sunny. I did go out a little too fast (7:50 first mile when I said I'd do 8 or 8:15), but I did that on purpose. There were 1500 people signed up and it and it went on to a bike path at 0.4 miles and was an out and back on the bike path. I did not want to get stuck behind a crowd of slower runners. Once I got on the path I settled down but the fast start did hurt me. The good news is my average pace for the race was 8:12, which is right where I thought I'd be in this weather. The bad news is that's a really slow 5K for me (25:22) and I was 5th in my age group. I'm actually feeling pretty good about it even though it's not a "fast" time for me. I did well for me in the conditions we had. And since I didn't place and I don't drink (it started/finished at a brewery so there was free beer), I didn't need to stick around. It started raining pretty hard on my way home, so I'm glad I left when I did. Saw a couple people I knew, overall a fun morning. Except for the 25 minutes of racing....

Laura!!!!! It's so good to see you. Thanks for all the updates, sounds like you and the family are doing well.

Liz, nice job girl. A fast finish longer run in that weather is super impressive.

Judy, try to stay cool, young lady.

Margaret, enjoy the 5 mile race. Bummer your DH has to fly out tonight. Mine flies out Monday - I heard him on the phone telling the guy setting up the meeting he wasn't going too early because it was his wife's birthday. He hung up and I laughed at him for using me to make the guy feel bad......and told him if he was using me as an excuse to leave later in the day, I wanted a birthday breakfast from him!

Ginny, did ya race?

Tessa, nice to see you checking in last night.

Happy 4th of July!

7 miles this morning with 6 x 400. My normal summer run, intervals went ok, but then the rest of the run was awful. Definitely hot, I could not get my heart rate to reflect that it should be an easy pace.

LCRuns, hi! That's an impressive streak. I give you a lo of credit for ending it. I've seen people get overly concerned about keeping one alive that they do things that probably aren't helpful. Plus, no sense in adding more stress.

AnonymousGuest, those conditions sound awful.

CrazySue, a 2 miler sounds like an ideal distance in this weather.

Evening!  Slept in and then went to Pilates with hubby, a movie, and just finished 15 on the TM.  They felt tough but I was lazy today, ha.

Got another picture from my race.  This one I love:

Liz, nice 10.

Judy, hoping the trail miles went well.

Margaret, hoping the race went well for you.

Laura, nice runs.  Stay cool.

Karen, nice job on the race.

Susan, nice job on the race as well.

HCK, Nice intervals.

Elina, hoping things calm down at work soon.  At least you and me are watching the cup "together".

Nice picture, Damaris!

Laura! Glad to see you are doing well. Oh gosh, another one driving? I am counting the days until DD's car registration renews (August 8) because she will be registering her car in WA and so has to get her own insurance. I can get her off mine!!

Karen, good move on DH's part making the other guy feel guilty. Although how is he expected to know when his colleagues' wives' birthdays are?

Elina, exciting on the game! I did not know the NHL was playing games in Europe but that does sound exciting.

Happy 4th to everyone! I got in 4.5 this morning before opening up the church so parade viewers could use the bathrooms. The city does not provide any portapotties for paradegoers, the closest park is about a half mile and may not be open on a holiday, and *$ and the supermarkets are not pleased at having lots of non-customers use their bathrooms. Rite Aid actually locked theirs and said "they're broken". So a church with open, clean, flushing loos was a big attraction. We had 238 people through in 4 hours, up from 150 something last year, and after someone asked if we had a donation basket we collected $94 in donations. Apparently 3 people thought bathroom access was worth $20 each, or they just didn't have change. It will pay for the water, TP, and towels, at least, and the goodwill earned by opening out our restrooms is incalculable. (Now if a few of them would like to come to services, that would be even better! But we would far rather have people using our bathrooms than our bushes.)

Run included about a 1/2 mile steady uphill which I managed to run all the way up. Crater Lake apparently includes several sustained uphills and I need to train for those.