Relentless

morning - 15.25 Pine Lake. Great run with James down to the road and a bit to the north and then back. I didn't feel great, but we had a great talk and it made the run go by very nice. Ended at the lake for a quick dip. (F50 713.75)

morning - 15 Pine Lake. Same run as yesterday, but didn't go up to the lake. It was raining pretty hard and after last night's lightning strike I decided I didn't want to risk it too much. Story: last evening a huge storm came through and a huge lightning/thunder simultaneously hit a tree less than a 100 yards away from our camp and blew huge pieces of the tree all over the place over 100 feet. (Stratus black 1143.45)

AM - 15 Fields. We came home yesterday to participate in funeral things last night and today, so I got a little run in on my own at home. It was kind of tough to get going. The legs were sore and tight and my brain was not into it at all either, but it wasn't too bad as I got going. Headed back up to camp this evening. (Kinvara silver 448.75)

AM - 14 Pine Lake. Ran up toward the lookout and then a 60 minute run with the team up the mountain. We ran up higher than we ever had with a total gain of 1500 feet in the 33 mins up. (Kinvara Lime 501)

afternoon - 3.75 Pine Lake. We drove to the top of the mountain and ran toward the Powell Point lookout. I wanted to get all the way out to the point, but the road is was too tight for the suburbans and we only had a 30 minute run (seven though we stretched that a little hoping to get there). Still super pretty and up at 10500 elevation. (VertK 331)

AM - 21.25 Pine Lake. Took the suburban out to the end of the run and then James and I ran back to camp and go the team for the long run route out around the lake and then back around toward the highway, it rained a lot during the night and some parts of the trail were very muddy, but nothing like in some years. The team was just rolling and ended up hitting 13 miles during the run, sneaking it just under 7 minute pace. Not too shabby for their longest run of the year, in the mud, at 8500 feet. (Kinvara Lime 526.25)

afternoon - 3.5 Pine Lake. Some of the team wanted to run the Treasure trail, so we headed out there and took some pics then dropped off the rim and down the trail. We just took it pretty easy and enjoyed it. Beautiful run with an amazing team. (VertK 334.5)

AM - 9 Pine Lake. Just an easy day to end a long week. Started off around the lake and then down the road toward the highway. (Kinvara Green 90.25)

What an up and down week. Camping was great, both with the fam and team. I am so blessed to be working with such great asst. coaches and a truly great group of kids. Glad I could get some solid aerobic running in this week. I feel in great shape; I just need to get faster and I should have a great set of races coming up.

Goals for next week: one last week to cram so e mileage in. But this is going to be more of a transition week - where I really want to work on marathon pace work through Tempo Tuesday and tempo incorporated into the long run.