What ever it takes!

10 miles on my favorite trail in the United States,  Sawyer Camp trail it's in the hills between SFO airport and Half Moon bay and runs through a game preserve.  Perfect temperature 60 degrees with a cool mist coming off the lake.

It's a bit spooky early in the morning, like Halloween spooky.  The weird thing is the deer aren't afraid of people, so you'll be running along and all of a sudden there will be a deer standing 5 feet away and not even move.  Kind of freaks you out.

Great run, it makes my least favorite job just a little bit easier.

10 miles in 1:06:40  6:40 avg pace.  Slow in the dark going out and then I kind of turned on the after burners for a few mile coming back.

Late night working last night, early morning this morning so I didn't have time to make it to my trail, which meant a really hot miserable quick run on the stuffy hotel treadmill.  Blah!!

6 miles in 37:05 6:10 avg pace

9 miles on the Sawyer camp trail before finally going home, Dragged my co-worker Jeff out of bed to go with me. I ran 2 slow with him and then went off ahead. ran out to the 4.5 mile marker and turned around. I really would have liked to go the entire length but was short on time.

It was a perfect morning once again, actually had to dodge around a deer that was just standing in the middle of the trail and had no intention of getting out of my way. Geez, share the trail deer.

9 miles in 1:03:? 7:04 avg pace.

Ahhh! I needed that. I've worked the last 16 days straight, no days off, so this morning I slept in till 6:00, went hot tubing with my wife, waited for it to get light outside and went for a nice slow run on my original 10 mile route from back when 10 miles was my long run. The entire route is under construction so I had to deal with a few big trucks but the hard packed road base was a perfect running surface.

Nice cool morning, beautiful views of the mountains and the leaves. Now this is running weather.

The only other thing I have planned today is to go read Piggy Pie to my 4 year olds pre-school class, other than that I'm going to do a whole lot of sittin' around.

Had a really hard time getting into it this morning, just felt tired and blah! After 7 miles I decided to shake the lead out and do some intervals. Did 10 X 0.1 miles sprints with .1 rest. Started at 13.1mph 13.2.... up to 14 mph for the last one.

Felt a little better after that and some stretching.

9 mile progressive run in 54:56 avg pace 6:06. 

Started at 6:40 pace ended at 5:28 pace.

So the plan this morning was to go on a nice little family outing, packed up the car with bikes and stroller and drove down to Willow Park with the whole family, Britt pushed Zach in the stroller, Ethan's furthest bike ride was 2 miles before today so he stayed with Britt and Zach and Bradin and I went off ahead.  We headed South on the trail, Bradin and I went out to the Lake and turned around, on the way back I had him pace me at a just sub 6:00 pace for about 2 miles, it was very cold this morning so things were a little bit tight and achy.  When we got back to Willow Park Britt and the kids were already in the car trying to warm up, Bradin wimped out on me and got in the car too.  They asked if they should meet me at Maverik and I told them no I'd just run home.  I forgot how far home it was, and how big of a hill I live on so the last 4 miles of the run were pretty brutal.  My easy 12 mile run with the family turned into a pretty hard 15 miler, felt more like 22 honestly, with all the short fast runs I've done lately 15 felt like eternity.

Pretty happy to get it done, I'm really quite sore in places I didn't know I was sore, the cold and the hills really brought it out.

15 miles in 1:47:30  7:10 avg pace.

This was a really fun week of running, never felt like I over did it, I'm not following a schedule or anything, I just kind of did what my body felt like doing every morning.  That's probably how most of you already are but it's kind of a new concept to me.