With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

Labor day sleep in and run....wonderful to run in the sunshine on a week-day again.  Especially with the cooler weather.  It felt really nice today.  Ran to p-town; not much excitement- just a smashed opossum and something that looked like a ribcage belonging to a medium sized dog.

warm up, run 7, cool down. avg pace 9:02

splits: 9:28, 8:58, 8:58, 9:00, 9:00, 8:51, 8:43, 8:48, 9:37

in the afternoon, went for a bike ride.  70 minutes, then a break to shoot the bull with Wyatt for a while, then another 30 minutes home.  Lost my pepper spray somewhere in the first 1/2, and really needed it during the 2nd.  Dogs barking and chasing me right at my feet as I'm trying to pedal away from them and not into traffic...it's enough to make me really mad.  I want to scream at the owners who let their dogs do that.  But I doubt it would do any good.  So I went and bought 2 pepper sprays after dinner.  So now I've got a back up. 

Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.

up early to shred with Jillian, then a 4 mile recovery run.  I'd like to say it was easy, but my legs were tired and it wasn't the cake walk I would have wished it was.

avg pace overall 9:58

8 miles- 4:40 am- avg pace 9:17.... MEH

progressive run- wasn't in the mood this morning and took a while to run off the grump.  Finally got in my groove.  Enjoyed watchin the sky lighten as I ran east/north-east the last 3 miles of my run just around 6 am.  It was beautiful.  A nice reward for dragging myself out.

Had to spray a little yapper this morning.  Then some of the spray was on my finger and I used it to wipe the sweat off under my nose...that was a burn I wasn't prepared for. 

Saw someone out on their bike in the dark.  Little headlight on the bike...giving me ideas.  Maybe I can BRUSH sometime.... maybe

pockets of hot and cold air as I ran.  Different temps coming off the fields and swamps..it was strange.  At one minute I was in a hot foggy mess of air, and the next, it was clear and a cool breeze, the back & forth between the two. 

Avg pace 9:17.  Progressive..started at around a 10:30 and ended around 8:30. 

shred then a 2 mile easy/recovery at a 10:23 pace

used my extra time this morning to get in a longer morning nap.  it was wonderful.

got my SHRU in.  Can I make it on the bike this afternoon to finish up a shrub, or will it turn into a shrug (Got other stuff to do)?  Stay tuned...

Ran with Wyatt.  Around mile 2 I didn't feel well and wondered how it was all going to happen, but then by mile 4 I felt great.  I glad improvements happened.

Ran with Wyatt.  tri-county loop with an extra mile at the end around her house to total 18.    She calls that the Mount Surrey Chi-hua-hua run because there are wwwaaayyy too many people that have those little dogs over the course of that 1 mile.  But at least there's only one house that has a life sized bleeding heart Jesus statue in the front yard.  Too many of those and people might get ideas.

We took water breaks at miles 7 and 15.  Then a tree-line break intbetween those.  No porta potties out on this run.  There was an awesome woman who stuck her head out her front door as we ran by and cheered us on yelling "great job ladies, looking good!  Keep up the good work."  It was like we were really in a race.  I'll never forget her- she made my day.  Lots better than the lady who yelled at us 2 weeks ago and called us names :-)

overall avg pace was 9:58.  started slow, but for most of the miles we were just about 9:58. the pace was getting slower from miles 12-15, but we picked it up at the end and managed negative splits by finishing our last 3 miles around 9:30's. 

I don't normally do ice baths, but thought I'd try it today.  I fell asleep in the ice bath.  I think maybe I was a little tired, so I crawled into bed and slept for 2 hours.  It was great.  I was happy that I had the time to let myself sleep today too.  Some Saturdays are too busy for sleeping all day.  Not much else got done today, but I don't think the world will come to an end if I miss a day of Saturday chores.