KW - MP

6 miles. Memorial Park. 2 miles warm-up. 3 miles temp run. 1 mile w/d.

KW - Hills

2 mile warm-up on Tornado's x-country relay course from weekend race. Rain started but lightening kept away. Then 1 mile reps with 90s rest btwn on cloverleaf course. 9:12, 8:45, 8:32. You know you are training when doing mile reps on hills and each has to be progressively faster!

Sunday Run

Started in sunlight and ended in moonlight. Run along Terry Hershey Trail. Kinda slow after having dinner first and a weekend spend doing home construction. Main floor completed. Now onto miles of baseboard and touch up painting. With each wall unique - not the fastest tasks to complete.

Kenyan Way - Memorial Park

Ran e-naked. Garmin didn't make the leave home checklist and remained sitting charging on granite counter top. Probably the first time I forgot it. So no real point doing the scheduled KW interval session without a backup watch. Also this was second run back from illness. Instead enjoyed the first cool run of fall by running classic memorial trails route and finishing with 2 miles round runners loop. Not a sole on the trails. So peaceful and allowed mind to wander as the tree roots, path and ups and downs are second nature after all these years. On the runners loop fun seeing all the large training groups doing "stuff". Lots of groups doing everything but running. One group in particular had people doing some kind of leg kicks and everyone had picked a different style. I know people are all different shapes and sizes but I believe the goal of the exercise is to do it a specific way to have desired result.

Great run! Great day for it. And yes - I saw several run with that thermal jacket on in 72F!

Kenyan Way Hills

OK. This was a tentative session. Been sick for 2 weeks with aches and pains all over and body fatigue. No other symptoms. First run since Labor Day. Had a few crappy weekends. Went to doc on Fri 11 and endured 4 hours there mostly waiting despite having an appointment. All tests negative. Had some more done on Monday. Doc didn't want to give anything until knew what it was.

So run was relatively OK. Am writing this 2 days later and believe I can say I'm finally well again.

Managed 2 loops of all 4 cloverleafs. Did a third one for warm-down.

Sick - Climbing Wall

Trying to muscle through the pain...

Sick - Doctors Visit

This took 4 hours of my life to do while not feeling any good.

Sick - Marathon Kick-off event

Home sick all day and finally able to struggle out to pick up the usual free shirt at Houston Marathon kick-off party.

Sick - Missed Kenyan Way

Not feeling good - straight home.

labor day - kenyan way hills

30 minutes with 5 x 0.49mile laps, 2 min rest btwn. Not a real hill session. Just faster laps each time. Survived session and got little better at end after labor day festivities. K came along so no real warmup (just 1/2 mile). Core after.

Climbing Wall

Interesting LTF closed the indoor pool during lightning. Had some lifeguards pretending to be meteorologists watching the radar loop of storm cell. Everyone understands an outdoor pool needs closed with lightening - not inside. They said 15 minutes to close as a precaution - then they suddenly needed 30 minutes after storm passed by as a saftey buffer. Really? Lightening conductors on the building don't fix the problem? Aren't there higher buildings next to the pool? Shouldn't the showers and spa be evacuated on the same theory :-)

Kenyan Way

6 miles, Tempo run Memorial Park