Notes
This time I started the run with Lola; she ran for the first minute until we got into unknown territory and she needed to sniff everything. After a few minutes of that we turned around. But after she found a place to pee, she took off at a sprint and didn't stop until we got back home. So I had a nice 300m sprint as part of my warmup.
I continued on my own run after that thinking I should do at least 4, so I manned up and decided I would do 5. But I was feeling good and exploring old parts of Ankeny that I started thinking 6 miles. Then a detour to find a bathroom found me doing 7 miles (Bad news, the random porta-john in the middle of town that used to stay open in the winter is no more.. at least we still have our memories).
Side Note: I feel like I'm not running the same Ankeny routes that were my bread-and-butter back when I lived at home/came home from College. For a while I was obsessed with soft-surfaces so almost all my routes were either gravel or on places I could run on grass next to the sidewalk. Now my routes are closer to what I ran early high school, mainly out at Saylorville or on main roads to get to parks. Partly I think I'm just looking for more interesting places to run again (I ran a lot of miles on the same 3 routes for awhile), but I'm also not as concerned about where I run when I'm not doing that many miles.