tired

Swam @ edith ball before work.

Just a ton of 100's.
Worked on front quadrant swimming/gliding/bi-lateral breathing.

snow and steam

Worked from 6am to about 4pm...
Afterwork I shot up to finger rock trail head.
Ran my usual up to the spring, fast this time.It was barely snowing.
Maybe a p.r. not sure 27min34sec29
It felt stoooopid fast.

Drove to edith ball afterwards, the pool was steaming, water temp 84degrees.

I've been reading total immersion, and worked on some of the techniques from the book, floated a bit not sure how many yards but a ton of 50 and 100 yard sets,left my watch in the jeep.

bah-humbug

Went for a swim before work @ edith ball.

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huh?

Had a root canal yesterday.....
I went out on my lakeside loop tonight.
It was so cold I could see my breath the whole time!
I tucked my fingers into my sleeves.

pr'd AGAIN and I took 2 very strategic short walk breaks.
19min54sec88hund

toothache my eye

I have had a horrible, terrible, AWE-FULL:) toothache since sunday night.
I have an appointment thursday.
I forced myself to run tonight after work even though I was sure it would be no-fun and my tooth would start pounding.

Lakeside loop-it turned out o.k. and I p.r'd again, but this time I was barely trying-
20min45sec30hund. this felt easy.

Dentist in the morning oh goody! :(

land speed

Well lets see I actually had a three day weekend!
I really didnt do much.
Watched movies with Poppy tinkered on the jeep, played with the Loo dog.

I considered doing the ttr run this morning but chose to hang out with Poppy.
She was having very mild contractions all last night and most of today

I decided to surprise her with a drive up to the Lemmon.

So we bundled up and hopped in the jeep.
Upon arriving @ the base of the mountain we were promptly discouraged by pima county sherriffs.
They finally conceded and let us go on through.
It was a fun drive, snow @ and above 7000 feet.
We played and got some pie and hot coco @ Iron door!!
Great sunday drive.
Zane still hasnt decided to grace us with his presence.

Okay back home...

Set a new p.r. for my lakeside loop20min57sec69hund. and yes I pushed pretty steady trying to stay smooth with a consistent high turn over but smooth, minimizing impact and trying to perfect my foot strike all while hauling ASS!!!
I may not do any long runs (14+miles) until January.

forgot my head cuz it wasn't attached

So I planned on hitting Reid on the way home from work.
I forgot my shorts so I stopped into the running shop on the way (next door to my work) and picked up some.
I hit up Reid(long way) 22min16 sec barely started to push then snuck in a quick swim @ Edith Ball before they closed
50 yard warm up then 500 yards 8min 30 sec.

I really don't like holiday stress

Pre-run- Poppy and I experimented with taping my heels and spray adhesiving my socks to my feet. Ran in the Golites again.

Went to Sabino/Bear.
Started from bear canyon trailhead and ran the trail over to phone line.
Snacked regularly about every half hour.
Took the switch backs down to the road and my left baby toe started rubbing.
Took the road all the way back to bear canyon trailhead.
I have the larger insole/spacer in my left shoe, I plan on swapping it to the thinner one and will probably tape my baby toe to see if that helps.

finished in 2hrs28min27sec

I have a blood blister on my left baby toe.
The tape job went well.

abducted by aliens

Went up to babat duat trail and ran to the end and back.
This trail is weird, coming back I always lose track of time and then poof your done and back @ the trail head.
The trail is only 2.5 miles each way (5 round trip)
I ate regularly again during my run today,blocks and gels water and cytomax.
It took me 1hour 7min41sec today. Which I think is on the faster side of my average for this trail.
I have Never seen anyone else on this trail ever!
Oh and I forgot my pod today,unusual for me to be without music, it was nice.

huh?

So I headed out and did the Lakeside Loop again...New shoes/golite sundragons, old model for like 30 bucks or so.
Different...also first run in tights this year!!!
I have some supplements/ snaks I need to get rid of so I ate 2 pina colada shot blocks and a power gel @ the start, @ the half way point I ate a cytomax vanilla gel yum!!!

Uh yeah so I did this run in 22min57sec89hund!!!
Thats like 6 minnutes faster then last time!!!Spooky!

a new park

We've been walking Loo @ Lakeside park....we just discovered it last week.

Well My body finally feels rested so I went for a run up to and around Lakeside park, this is a new run for me.
Stopped and did 10 pullups then ran around the lake on the way back.
Good little run!!!
It made me smiley.
27min12sec.