Memorial Park Trails

6 Miles. First Memorial Park trail run since Hurricane. Lots of trees down and paths cleared over the weeks. Had to abandon near end as the connector trails not cleared. Lots of work to clear out the devastation. Felt fine on this run despite late night. Finally recovering from illness.

Kenyan Way

6.5 miles. Including 20 minutes of hills. Some nice fall weather. Good workout. Very slow at start of hill reps - but got into it towards end. Overcoming illness which has turned into a head cold or allergies. After, worked late at home so not able to get to gym as planned.

Terry Hershey Trail

8.5 mile long run. The now infamous morning long run. Great weather. Cool. Shaded. Slow. Painful. Walking at end. So beat up after being sick for so long. Even though a long run - didn't push it so can train all week. Swimming in evening. Yeah! Now training twice a day.

Sick day

Trying to get well enough so can go run in the morning before gets hot. Total day off. Sleep in after late night last night.

Sick day

No work, No running. Gym in evening for something simple - upper body weights. Out late though.

Sick day

No work. No running. Went to gym though - tried the rock climbing wall. First time doing that in 7 or 8 years. It was awesome.

No Kenyan Nights

Didn't go after work. Feeling ill.

Memorial Park

3 miles, running loop at MP. Feeling ill. Running helped the energy levels a little. Went to gym after. Upper body weights.

Kenyan Nights

5 miles including 2x10min hills. First Kenyan Nights in a while after vacation and hurricane clean-up. Fall weather started. Brilliant to experience after the summer heat. Starting to not feel too good. Coughing quite a bit.

Treadmill

3 miles on a treadmill with heart rate monitor.

CityCentre Liftime Athletic

So I finally joined a gym. Mainly for pool workouts and recovery. Probably work on some of the weights for strength training and basic cardio can't get from running like StairMaster. Yoga and core classes may be an option too. Finally they built a decent gym in the neighborhood. Yeah!

Terry Hershy Trail

7.2 mile recovery run. THP trail dodging trees after hurricane. Sore from hurricane clean-up. Had to run in heat of day.

Hurricane Clean-up - Day 3

Deep cleaning of carpet seemed to work. Wood flooring is drying out. Will save insurance claim for next flood and/or after 16 million dollar neighborhood drainage improvement project completed so fixes are permanent.

Hurricane Clean-up - Day 2

Concentrated on cleaning up inside of house. Trying to get a room emptied to deep clean the wet carpet. Recovering from yesterdays efforts. Started the day with Advil.

Hurricane Clean-up - Day 1

Took out soaking hallway carpet. Cleaned up all the debris in gutters and backyard first to minimise flooding possibilities in-case rains again. Put up a temporary fence so the dogs could come home from kennel. Then took care of front yard which I'd alot of help from neighbors. Luckily I'd electricity yesterday. Weird that so many do not - but understandable. Recovering from minor illness. Coughing alot. A few beers tonight and I was out like a light.

Travel Day

Barcelona, Spain to Newark to Houston. Long travel day and first chance to inspect hurricane damage. Minor flooding in home and plenty of tree debris.

Hill Run

7.5 mile hill run on way to airport. Not too hot, plenty of shade and of course no humidity. Luckily found a scenic valley ridge to run up. No time to complete run to nearby summit (see Google map). Said goodbye to Neil at Girona airport and took bus to north Barcelona bus station. Free WiFi signal was great there, checked flights and hotels and stayed near central Barcelona at Universal Hotel and ending up forgoing Tapas for an Irish bar.

Hill Run from Neil's place

8.2 miles. Excellent hill run right from Neil's place. After enjoying whole weeks hospitality - leisurely day spent, then finally went out for a run. First real rainy day. On Neil's old stomping ground for training with H.B.T. Nice views of the valley. Could not ask for a better vacation.

Bayou Run

5.4 mile. Bayou run. Easy run. Couple of training groups seting up on the hills.

Labor Day

Stayed at home this holiday weekend. Pool party. Recovering from weekend 10k. No Kenyan Way.