Fifth day in a row of running! And purple hair.

RUN 13.1 miles in 2:07
BIKE COMMUTE 9.5 miles

On the bike to work I start wondering why my legs are so dead. Then I do the maths: 11+8+6+5+13 and realize I'm 43 miles into a 5 day stretch of running! Thankfully I'm taking the next two days off. No 'short 2-miler' tomorrow with the Thursday group. Even if 45 is a nice even number!

I meant to start of 6 but didn't roll out until 6:24. Just slow. Alarm goes off at 4:30, slept in to the next alarm at 5, then just slow. (but happily I can report that my gut is now two days of normal, since Aug 30th!). As with yesterday it's hot and humid, but we're used to that...right? Yes!

I head east towards the river and take a more wandery route so my usual 10-miler can stretch into a 13. I finally get to that ped bridge over I-55/I-44 that I wanted to find a few weeks ago. I wander in new-to-me areas of Soulard (lots of great old rowhouses!), up to LP, water from the corner gas station at 6 miles, and at this point I just want to rest a walk a bit. I hit a low energy point.

Then to CH area where I see old neighbor with Xena and a new guy Sidney! He's got both ends of the spectrum now -- a wiener dog and a tall long legged lean-machine racing greyhound. Off around CHP, down to TGP, up around MoBot, and happily hit the goal of 10.5 at the water fountain. That leaves just the run to home without extra loopy loops to round up the distance.

Oddly the last half of the run went much easier than the first. Thinking a lot about Saturday's race, telling myself that when I hit this distance on Saturday I won't even be finished with the first loop. I won't be posting here again until after the race, so I'd better get my goals lined up and in place.

Got purple and pink hair today :)

Goals for Evergreen.
1. Don't get injured.
2. Stay on plan for nutrition, the same plan I'll use for the hundo at Farmdale
3. Even pacing for the three loops no fade.
4. *Plan for wet weather and manage
5. Run your own race, let go the time and placing and other runners.

*Called up the weather for the race before typing this one. 80% chance of rain Friday morning, predicting 0.95 inch. T-shorms "likely" in the evening, low 67. So good temps but eeek for camping! Saturday forecast only 50-60% chance of rain in the morning, then partly cloudy. Predicted high only low-mid 70's. d