9 miles

I got out for a very nice 9 mile run at lunch. It was supposed to be 8 but I decided to go the longer way to avoid a bad hill since I had already done about 5 or 6 other ridiculously long steep hills on this new route. It's a very pretty run through the township watershed but it's just very very hilly. Tell me again why I decided to take up running when I moved to the top of a freakin' mountain! I was pleased, it wasn't too slow considering the hills either. My time was 1:43.

If I was lucky I would live on the bottom of the mountain and get the hard stuff done at the beginning so the 2nd half would be cake, unfortunately I have the opposite situation.

I have to say the lack of humidity makes me feel so much better. I did 8 something on Monday and the first 1/2 of it was the same as the first 1/2 of today's. I felt soooo much better today. It made me realize that the mileage wasn't what was wearing me out, it was the heat!















I also made another breakthrough today with my running. The route takes me up this road towards my house and its practically one 3 mile hill. I tried it last fall and couldn't run it, had to walk/run the whole way home. I've been avoiding any routes that end up there because I dreaded the road. Today I conquered it.

On the personal front things aren't as good. My father-in-law isn't doing well at all. Hopefully he will pull through. Each day its a new thing, one day he seems better the next bad and now it seems his recovery has taken a nose dive and we're back where we started. If you pray he could use your prayers, if not just your thoughts.