38 Min Run (push)

LOS FELIZ -- Actually quite awesome. Had power to spare, focus and nice weather. Tried to fix the downhill form, eventually breaking through to some extent on keeping the hips forward...something I'm pretty sure I wasn't doing. I think all joint trouble is from bad downhill form at this point.

35 Min Run (Recovery)

OAK PARK, Ill. -- Stayed with Christian and Laura in Oak Park for the weekend and had an awesome jaunt out with him and Steve around the neighborhood. You can't take a sideways leak without hitting a Frank Lloyd Wright home...even his home that I saw a million times in the documentary. Cool. And the day when the three of us all ran just a morning run around for fun...I wasn't expecting that. Dan even runs now. So the whole crew might get together for a funzie one of these days. It's nice to see we all ended up in the same place, somehow enjoying relatively healthy pursuits. It was a nice moment for the G-ville gang.

Also of note: Three runs in three states in a week. Love that.

40 Min Run (base)

ROCHESTER, Mich. -- Found this great hotel for relatively cheap on this trip to the D. Kind of an amazing place. I hope it doesn't go out of business. Nice little stream next to it, great folks and some history. Plus a place to run. Turns out, there's a rails-to-trails that stretches for like 20 miles adjacent that I will have to check out. The head of the office tipped me off to that after the fact.

Anywho, it was a long night and late to bed...but the day was so flipping beautiful Thursday morning I set out to get a good cold weather run in. Used the new Packers windbreaker from SI and it worked like a charm. Kind of enjoy cold runs...kind of.

Went out from the hotel and trotted up toward and then through downtown. Out of town to the south, then up a biggish hill past a bunch of car dealerships and looped back. It was a pretty awesome run.

36 Min Run (Push)

LOS FELIZ -- Normal loop with some great pace and fartlek style efforting efforts effortly. Awesome. First real athletic run in months.

38 Min Run (base) --161.5--

LOS FELIZ -- The first run that felt normal in weeks. Awesome. Had a burst of energy on the final hill. Love that. Love this. Love it.

38 Min Run (base) --161.5--

LOS FELIZ -- Another solid loop. Good. Maybe. Perhaps. Really trying to sit on the horse during the runs, get balance, get the chi running deal down better. No soreness. No problems. Left knee is still problematic but mostly because I'm thinking about it. Just loosening up and relaxing and all is fine. If this momentum continues through next week into Michigan and then the week back, I might admit I'm actually back in the saddle. That's three weeks of success needed tho. This last six-eight weeks have been a disaster.

10 Min Run (Push) --161.5--

LOS FELIZ -- Speedwork on the street out front. Good times for all.

40 Min Run (base)

LOS FELIZ -- The first real run of the modern era. Wore the new shoes successfully. Did the loop. Felt great. Good times. Perhaps? Perhaps?