6 into 8 into 9 into 10 miles

RUN 10 miles in 1:42, ave bp 141
COMMUTE 9.2 miles

Really the original plan was to run commute to work -- 9.2-ish miles -- and they almost happened. But I was having doubts about the soundness of running 5 yesterday, 4.2 morning and 4.2 afternoon today, then 6 tomorrow. Back-to-back-to-back plus coming out of the knee injury. Speaking of which, almost no pain today. Stupid fucking dog. Speaking of whom, I haven't heard back from animal control on this and an email to them yesterday as of yet unanswered. "Investigation Still Open" is all I got. 

Well anyway, I realized I could run from home and get the same distance AND a bike ride (because the 10K challenge at work started Monday, and well...) and avoid the 12 hour run intervals and cut short if needed. So run from home became the plan. Speaking of which, the plan said 6 miles. Which plan? The 50M, the 100K, the 100M? All of them. Turns out my plans are remarkedly similar to each other.

Well anyway, out the door right after 6am and I was surprised at how bright it was. Full sun up. So I need to consider starting earlier. I looped out to BP and Lemp, then back to TGP. I weaved on/off trail sections to avoid the flooded areas (major rains overnight) and pick up tenths here and there. All was feeling great, and this feeling was what was going to dictate my distance.

I hit the bird trail corner and thought I was at 5 miles. Not sure why I thought that, but it screwed up my math the rest of the run. Feeling great, I turned up the MoBot west side path. Right around this time I realized my plan to head out without carrying food or water was going to conflict with my run mileage. Around the Bug Shop corner, back to TGP for water. Water fountain off. Ugh.

Here is when I realized that my mental mileage was off. The watch said 6 miles, I thought it was at 8. Why? I dunno. But the time of 1 hour confirmed that I did not (as I hoped) bump the on/off button. From the water fountain, I was only 2 miles from the house. I was feeling better than "just" 8 miles so I headed out of TGP into Shaw, up to Flora, over to Compton Water Park, past the old house and old 'hood, back to Arsenal, and finished with a loop around BP to end right 10.

I was dragging the last mile, but it's all mental yo.

Speaking of mental, I have the weirdest thoughts running. A transcript would be a crazy real. One from today -- the word monosyllabic to describe...ugh...monosyllabic words. Such a complicated word to describe such simple words.

More mental -- I'm really really sure I want to run the Badger 100k. And --and don't tell anyone yet -- the Hennepin 100 in October. Shhhhh it's a seekrt!