sitting down to watch a movie @ church.

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3-19-09 long w/fartlek

I did a long run tonight. I went 10 miles in about 90 minutes.. The funny thing is what I learned: if you in the middle of a run, and you need to make a decision about whether to go longer, or be sensible - stop the MP3 player. Tonight it was on "Eye of the Tiger" - it's impossible to make a sensible, rational decision about pushing yourself with that song in your head. It feels like Rocky will run up behind you and punch you if you wimp out.... so I went 10 miles instead of 8.

I did a couple of 1/4 mile fartleks during the run in lieu of doing a legit speed workout, but I figured I get more benefit from the the distance than a hard speed workout.

Saw lots of people at the dam.... walkers, bikers, fishers, waders.....but no runners - odd.

This is why my wife doesn't like my trail runs.

3-17-09 Brick

I went to the dam to do a brick. When I got to the dam I realized that my GPS was dead. I decided to just to 2 laps at the dam (17.3 miles according to Gmaps), then I went for a 3 mile run. My legs just wanted to detach and find a new home.

Tomorrow will be a rest day.

3-16-09 no swim, but still very wet

I planned on going to the pool this morning at 5am, but when I got up, it was raining pretty hard and I just couldn't muster the will to go be cold, and hope the water was warm. I decided that I'd go the pool after work, but when I got there @ 5:30 in the evening, it was full - the swim team was having practice. I decided to go home, get some shoes and hit the trails. It was still raining, but the temp was not too bad.

I grabbed my trail shoes and a long sleeve wicking shirt and hit the dam. I couldn't have gotten any wetter if I'd gone to the pool. It was a really good run: I did about 5.8 miles in 1:04:13. I took several breaks to just look around. It rained on my for most of the run, and I saw a lot of wildlife - 1 huge turkey, and six deer. The last 3 deer were standing together just off the trail, and when we saw each other I was about 4 miles into the run, and something in my brain yelled: "Go after them". As soon as we all knew about each other, they exploded - and so did I. It was a fun chase, but it only lasted about 30 or 40 seconds - I was at a full sprint hurdling downed trees and ditches.. I was winded and tired at the end, and soaked.

Fun run, though.