Saturday 15 Mile Run

Sarah and I went to Milan this weekend for my niece Holly's birthday party. We went up Friday afternoon and spent the night, the party was on Saturday afternoon. Friends and family and check out Flickr in a little while from some party pics. We also decided on the way home Saturday that we'd go stay Saturday night with my Dad because Sarah wanted to go fishing at her Papa Tony's house. I'll be posting pics of that to Flickr as well shortly.

Anyway, I got up Saturday morning and headed out for a 15 mile run around the big city of Milan. My plan was to do three five mile loops, but after the first one I decided to just do out-and-backs for the remainder so I could stay off Hwy 280. Of course this meant that I had to run past the same houses and dogs 5 times. After hearing their dogs bark for over 2 hours, I'm sure some folks were really wondering when this "Forest Gump" guy was gonna call it quits.

Well I did call it quites eventually, but not before pounding out another 15 miler. It wasn't a bad run, but it wasn't all that great either. I didn't really have the pep in my step that I had last weekend, but that could just be my body recovering. Or it could be a sign that I need to quit skipping runs, I didn't do the tempo run this week, but I did ride my bike to and from work on Wednesday. I just need to be more consistent. Towards the end of the run my hamstrings were pretty tight. I feel like if I had run on Thursday they would have been looser.

Tomorrow is track Tuesday and we'll be doing 6x1200m repeats. I better get to bed now though or I'll never get up in time.

Later!

Saturday 15 Miler