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City Wells w/Grapevine extension. The legs felt a bit tired and I kept wondering how the pace was but I told myself to not worry about it and just run. Ended up not being as bad as I thought once I finished.

Greensprings. Started off feeling pretty bad but by the halfway point things felt better. Lunch wasnt sitting to well in the stomach though. Got pretty chilly by the time the sun started to set. Guess its time to break out the winter running gear. Which would be gloves and maybe earwamers. Got to love the desert weather.

Treadmill. Not a pretty run tonight. I was completly dead and kept turning the speed down more and more. Ive done 12 milers in the time it took to go this 7. Yuck.

13.57 - Got up early with the intention of doing my long run. I knew it would be chilly so I got all bundled up and headed down to river trail to head into Bloomington. By the time I got to River Rd my hands hurt so bad from the cold I was almost in tears. I guess the cheap Walmart gloves dont help when its really cold. I decided to get off the trail and away from the river and see if that helped warm things up a little. Nope. Still cold. Decided to just bag it and get home as quick as possible. In my frozen state I decided that going up over Formaster Ridge would be the best way home but turns out it wasnt. So to sum up, 5 am cold, Walmart gloves - not super helpful, Formaster Ridge - bad idea.

10 - Club run up river trail towards Washington and back. Good run.

Grapevine and then on the new portion of the parkway and back. Kept the pace really easy and relaxed. Its a nice road, especially right now where its closed to traffic, but its sad to see the areas where I spent so much time playing as a lad now being paved over and developed. Guess you cant stop "progress".

Had a blast today at the run. Its easy to have fun when your running with such talent as Dave, Logan, Hayden and Billy Boy. Watching Dave, Logan and Hayden bust out these amazing minute per mile times with what looks like no effort is inspiring.

 Bill was nice enough to give me the 2 shortest legs today which was nice cause my legs where tired coming into this. First leg was on Skyline Dr. above town towards Middleton. Had a pretty good climb the first .5 that really slowed me down but I was able to pick the pace up for the rest of the leg and dispite the fact that I could tell that I was working it felt good. Second leg was from Sunriver into Bloomington Park. I wanted to just gun it the whole way as it was only 2 miles but the legs didnt want anything to do with that. I was able to run a pretty good clip the whole time but 2 miles was all I had in me.

 It was fun to hang out with everyone and survive the car ride (im looking at you Dave and Bill) in one piece. I can tell that I really need to do speed work if im going to bring my race times down like I want to.