who are those hooded hordes

nice, very warm morning run. did 5 miles at 8:38 to warm up, then 2 x 800 m track at low 6 min pace, two together made a 6:26 mile, last mile cool down was a 7:53 on the track.  nice run, felt pretty good considering I ripped out a hangnail on ole' morton's toe last night, damn near fainted.  After run I then proceeded to have a pretty crappy day.  Here is to running though, and a cold brew!

yep, a whole mile with Harry, was going to hike a bit after but got windy and cold and we wanted pie

Basically took 3 days off since last run with sore throat and lackadaisical attitude, felt like I hadn't run in a month, ah running is a harsh mistress.  started out slowish and sluggish, ran some 8:30 ishness, last 3/4 mile I pushed a low 6 min/mile pace. heart suriving for the time being, stayed up too late last night watching true blood, messed up show

started the day with a nice, and hot, 2 mileish hike with fam in the coastal hills of pacifica, they were doing a 50K trail ultra so it was fun to watch and made me want to run one.  later got some time for a run, started at 2:00 p.m., very very hot, it was sweet!  felt pretty good, I had hydrated well which makes all the difference, also I drained my fuel belt 2 bottles of cytomax on the 6 mile run so that helped.  here are the splits for the run:

8:38, 8:21, 7:52, 7:50, 7:38, 8:59 (this last mile was on a dirt trail and had some switchbacks)  so felt pretty good  total time was 50:13 with avg: 8:13 min/ml

now time to enjoy some good food!