Chad's Runs

Went to bed late last night so maybe that is why I was a little slow again this morning.  8:53 pace.  55% humidity supplied lots of sweat.

1.5 mile warm up, .5 mile cool down and 4 half mile repeats.  3:33, 3:34, 3:31, and 3:30.  It amazes me that some of you out there can consistently put in low 6s mile after mile for 13-26 miles.  I'm wiped out after a half mile at 7 min pace.

I had hit all scheduled runs and mileage in August until yesterday.  I got sick.  Crap.  Still not all the way back today but I did go to work.  I plan on running tomorrow and Saturday.  If I run a pair of 6s I'll still get my weekly mileage in.  I'll have to convince my wife that I'm completely better.  She's convinced that running will probably make me sick again.  I think it will do the opposite, but there will be no convincing her.  She's cute that way.

6 slow miles on the JRP at 2 in the after noon.  I was going to say six easy miles but I was wiped out by the end and the last two weren't exactly easy.  I'm not very good at running in the sun light.  It wasn't even that hot, 78 degrees or so.  It didn't help that I just finished eating 8 jumbo hot classic style buffalo wings from Wingers.  I kept having buffalo-burps.  I'm making this run sound worse than it actually was.  

I was going to go to Wyoming but too many of us are sick and we don't want to get Grandma sick so we are staying home.  Bummer, I like running in Lander, and it would have been good to get out of town. 

Oh, and one more thing.  Grasshoppers are gross, especially plagues of them. 

Just finished 6 miles on the JRP.  Was going to run a little with the gang at 6 this morning but decided last night to go to 7 Peaks and a 6 mile run would just get in the way.  So I went out at 10 tonight and enjoyed a beautiful night.  I was running just north of willow park in a portion of the trail that is a tunnel of trees.  There is no light nearby and can be quite dark.  Tonight I was running right at the moon.  It was right in my field of vision and alarmingly bright.  It was like running on the street in the dark with a car coming straight at you.  The light blinds you so you can't even see the road, or in this case the trail.  I've never noticed the moon blinding me before.  Weird.