I was planning to just play basketball this morning, but that wasn't to be. First, when I called my son Andrew who said he might be going, he said his sunburn from Lagoon was hurting too badly, and he had worked all night, so he wasn't going. I decided to go anyway but when I showed up in PG at the church there wasn't anyone there. A few minutes later the guy with the key showed up, only he was late because he couldn't find the key. There were just the two of us anyway, so I headed home. Since I pass WalMart on the way home, I decided to stop and pick up some things we needed. I decided I'd better get in at least a few miles, so I swapped my basketball shoes for running shoes and headed out. I didn't want to go too far or too fast. Yesterday was a 10K race plus 7 miles, and tomorrow is a planned 20 miler. I was also already 7:00am and I was afraid it was going to get very warm very soon.
At first I decided to run towards the canyon. As I passed the high school I decided it to run on the track a while. I can't remember the last time I ran on the track; it's been months. I settled on running a few mile repeats (4 laps on, 1 lap off), not really fast but more focused than just slogging along at an easy pace. I ended up with splits of 7:26, 7:29, 7:23. I took the long way home and ended up with 6.1 miles, avg. 8:21/mi. I've plenty of projects to do today on my day off, but we'll probably sneak in a matinee movie and go out to eat in honor of Amy's birthday. We're a couple of days late, but it's a good excuse, I mean a tradition.
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