Well since Ryan was running Hobble Creek this morning I was struggling trying to find a running partner, so last night I asked my 9 year old if he wanted to go on a bike ride this morning, he of course said sure, little did he know it was at 5:00am and 18 miles. :) My 7 year old wanted to go too, but he just barely learned how to ride with out training wheels this summer. I know sad, Bradin was riding without them at age 5. Anyway, I rigged up Bradins bike with a flashlight and duct tape head lamp, and a modified food and phone case strapped to his seat. Woke him up at 5:00 and we headed down to the Maverik for my normal 18 mile loop. Even though I put my Garmin on the charger last night the battery died at mile 1, very upsetting, Oh well, I've run this loop so many times I pretty much know my mileage the whole way. Pace was slower than if Ryan would have been there pushing me. I'm going to take a wild guess that my actual moving average was around 7:15 - 7:20. Water breaks were a little longer just due to having a 9 year old on a bike with me. He is an awesome running partner though, never complained once the entire ride. We ran into 2 girls training for St. George and ran with them for about 1 mile, they thought Bradin was the cutest thing ever waking up going on an 18 mile bike ride with his dad at 5:30am. Bradin obviously got annoyed with girl talk and went off ahead, so I said goodbye and went to catch up with Bradin again. When we were finished I felt really good so when I got home I told Ethan (my 7 year old) to get on his bike for a ride. I live on a loop that if you run the outside sidewalk around is exactly 1/4 of a mile, so I ran the loop 8 times with Ethan for an extra 2 miles to finish off the day. Happy I got a long run in, wish I would have got a tempo in there somewhere but I think the long part was the important part. I'm going to take a leap of faith the next 2 weeks and not run anything longer than 12 since I will be at a conference in Vegas. That is when I always seem to get injured, on Conferences where I walk 15 miles a day, work 18 hours and then try and fit my running schedule in. So I have modified it to shorter runs with Tempos in for the next month.
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