Today’s nine miles took me over my goal of 36 miles for the week by a mile. I looked back and I think it has been five weeks so far of increasing my weekly miles by 10 percent each week. Next week will be a goal of breaking 40. I am going to hold off on doing my recent regular of a Monday long slow distance run. I’d like to get it back to weekends, possibly Sunday. It feels good to have a little break from the long ones. I am thinking 14 miles will be a good distance. I am basically going to start out with what I did last time but I won’t go up to the top of Tabor. I’ll instead brush up against the volcano and head to the river where I’ll pick up the Springwater trail to home. So I ramble,,,
Oh I forgot to mention in a previous post that I sort of saw Obama coming in by helicopter on his way to Intel. I didn’t realize it was him at the time, but it dawned on me later.
Today’s run was a little longer than I needed to do. I did my part to Keep Portland Weird by stopping to talk to a lady about a Toulouse goose that was honking loudly. I lectured her on the Toulouseness and the proper naming of the “Canada” Goose. Bird nerd.
I pushed my HR today to sort of make it a junk run day. But I thought that not doing my long run tomorrow, I’ll do a recovery run then. So today didn’t seem right for recovery, but I just did the track workout on Friday so a quality run seemed too much. So even though I call it a junk run it was still good in may respects. I felt like I got to push it a couple of times. But mostly kept it a steady fast at least for the first half. I didn’t drop under 9:15 until mile 5 when I was 15 secs faster. Now miles 6-9 were different stories, I was a lot slower climbing out of reed and Moreland.
