This week

On Friday I did a training run of 20 miles with a goal time of 2:40. I ran 2:34:53 and felt pretty good. The first ten miles I even had to try to go slower. It felt like I was jogging yet running 7:40 pace whereas usually when i run it feels like I am running pretty good and mapmyrun tells me I was running 9:10 pace. I like this way much better! After ten miles I had to work, but only a little bit. It caught me by surprise at first though, like I have to try a little now? Ahh man! I did the run around Cornwall park on a 1km loop so I got to run it 32.2 times. That meant passing the same stoners at least 4 or 5 times which they thought even that seemed like a lot. I got such clever comments as "you must like running a lot" and "jeez aren't you tired yet?" "You must like smoking dope a lot!" and, "No! you will collapse of frolfing before I even make a sweat!" ( if you don't know what frolfing is the best defintion I could give you is - frolf is a good run spoiled.)
Today I ran a lot shorter and quicker. I ran 7 miles along the Cedar River in Renton in 49:18 with three U turns. The trail is so close to my parent's house I would run there more often where it not for the nasty, gassy, kilometer hill in between. But today I got to cheat and drive there. It pays to run fast- you have extra time in your day for things like driving, and blogging. Though I should have plenty of time for that with a weekly mileage of only 107 :O