8 miles by little out-n-backs back home

RUN 8 miles in 1:15

Happily I looked at my run totals before planning the weekend. I thought I needed only 12 miles to hit the goal of 42 for the week. But a double check showed I needed 14 instead! I didn't want to do them all at once either way, so it was a matter of how to break it.

I had promised my time to help with the family, so I stuck to a schedule to finish by 8am. This meant I started in the dark. Dad helped with a flashlight, and I delayed as long as I could to let the sun come up. In the end, I didn't need the light.

As the trend has been, it was unseasonably warm -- 47F! However, there was wind. There's always wind out there! Once I reached the school road, I decided on little out-n-backs from that intersection until I hit the number needed for the run home. I did an out-n-back by the school (into the wind), then a short out-n-back up the hill until a mini-goal, back down the hill, then up JG's road until the next goal mile point. It's funny to think that with all this running, I've never run on JG's road east of the school road!!

What a beautiful morning! Even the wind was nice. It was so quiet, so calm, so pleasant.