Seeking a better country...

I slowed everybody down today at tempo tuesday.  Even so, 9 miles is pretty good.

Nice, flat and downhill run from summerwood to bountiful blvd, to BST, and home.  The western sky was beautiful.

It made me want to put together and adventure run in 6 weeks or so...Eaglewood Golf Course to Farmington Pond.  With the exception of the first couple miles, it would all be on trails, overall distance around 15 miles.  I would do it in the late afternoon/evening time so runners could watch the sunset, and with any luck like tonight, the lightning.

Jack in the stroller, all four girls on bikes to Freedom Hills.  While they parked, I did three switchbacks.  Sunset was only a 4 or 5.  It got pretty dark for the ride home.  

Nena starts college next week.  It's another "things will never be the same" kind of milestone.  Bittersweet.

20 miles on Saturday, hoping to do most of it in City Creek Canyon. 

After my wife's alarm went off around 5, we were treated to a violent microburst with heavy rain, hail, thunder and close lightning.  We were almost persuaded to scrap the run and go later.  I'm glad we didn't.  

Long run on Bonneville Blvd, 11th Ave, Virginia, South Temple, then up and down City Creek Canyon.  Map my run doesn't have good info on the road past a certain point, so I'm a little bit unclear on the overall distance.  I'm going to call it a solid 20, since half of it was up hill.

I caught up to a guy early in the run, and did the whole run together.  2:52 including pauses to drink here and there.

No more long runs until the marathon.  I'm not sorry about that.