run, run, run

Coeur d'Alene, ID 7:00am

Pace: 8:40

I was starting work later today, so I decided to do a longer run. I mapped out a nice 15-mile route around a lake and up and over a mountain. When I woke up this morning it was snowing and the streets were covered. So, I decided that this wasn't the best day to be going over, and more importantly, down a mountain. So I went along the Centenial trail six miles out and then back. Cold and snowy, but a good run. I would have liked to have gone over the mountain.

I turned a corner and fell down again. Similar to my fall in Pittsburgh. Now my knee hurts. I'll get over it.

Coeur d'Alene, ID 8:00 am

Pace: 8:19

Twelve degrees. I was going to complain about the cold until I found out that it is supposed to be colder tomorrow. So I'll wait.

It snowed quite a bit last night, but the path was nicely plowed. I appreciated that. Felt good the whole way, maybe because I was focusing on how cold it was, not on how my legs felt. But I'm not complaining.

Coeur d'Alene, ID 4:45 pm

Pace: 8.19

I didn't run this morning. I worked until 1am last night and when I got up it was one degree outside. 1+1= Courtney sleeps in.

Later in the morning I asked myself, "since this project is going relatively well, why am I working 14 hour days? So I decided to take a couple of hours off in the afternoon and go for a run.

It was great weather -- about 30 degrees and sunny. I felt good the whole way. I would have liked to double the mileage, but I didn't have time. It's supposed to be really cold again tonight. We'll see what I end up doing.

Coeur d'Alene, ID 7:30am

10.33 miles

Pace: 8:33

I got back to the hotel yesterday afternoon planning to go running, but I fell asleep. By the time I woke up it was almost time to go back in to work. So I got up this morning and did a 10 miler. It was 12 degrees, but didn't feel all that cold. I went up the Centenial trail and turned up towards Post Falls just before it went under the freeway. Felt good all the way, except for the very end when my body was telling me that it needed to hit the rest room.

Coeur d'Alene, ID 5:00pm

5.43 miles

Pace: 8:28

Since I didn't get out and run yesterday and since I won't get a chance to run again this week, I decided to go out for one last run in CDA this evening. It started out just as a penance run to assuage my guilt, but it turned out to be really nice. Since it was my last run here, I decided I should explore a bit. So I went down by the lake and even ran along the beach for a bit. The weather was the nicest it's been since I got here, so it would be true to say that I went running on the beach in shorts. But that part actually sucked. I was just slogging through the sand until I hit a dead-end and had to turn back.

Then I went over to a neighborhood near Fernan Lake. At one house I saw 5 turkeys loitering in the front yard. I don't know if they were wild turkeys that found something to eat or house pets. I crossed to the other side of the road because I really, the last thing I want is for my obituary to say that I was killed by a pack of angry turkeys. They just minded their own business.

It was tough getting my miles in this week with a taxing work schedule. The good news is that next week will likely be worse.