Sunday, 6/24/12 to Saturday, 6/30/12

1 ran 4 times this week, 28.54 miles.
I ran 22 times in 30 days; 128.86 miles, 5.9 miles/run. Over 100 miles for 4 months in a row!
The first half of 2012; 120 runs in 181 days, 798.91 miles, 6.7 miles/run.

A milestone ... this is the 300th post of my blog since I started it on January 1st, 2007!

Sunday, 6/24/12: Lost in Lucien Morin Park, 5.8 miles, 1:07:48, 11:41 pace.

Garmin Connect Activity for Lost in Lucien Morin Park

Christine and I slept in until almost noon so when Bill Beyerbach called about going out for a trail run I was all for it. He had the misfortune of heading down that morning to somewhere near Watkins Glen to try to meet up with runners who were going to practice the Finger Lakes 50s, didn't see anyone, then locked his keys out of his car! So he was more than ready for a trail run too! I met up with Bill around 2:30PM at Lucien Morin Park, aka Eliison Park Wetlands. We headed up and took various color trails but eventually made it all the way out on the White trail, 2.25 miles. We headed back and I got us lost. I just ran out of energy, got lightheaded and lost my sense of direction. Luckily Bill took the lead. I settled into a "get it done" pace and followed him as he figured out where we were and led us out. I immediately fueled and soon felt better. I forgot to turn off my Garmin ... somehow I knocked it back on for a bit on the way home. Later I realized that I had neglected to eat lunch before I went out to run and then didn't pack a gel when I started the run. Oops!

Ribs, potatoes and cole slaw salad were on the menu for supper ... it would have be yum but I just didn't feel up to supper for some reason.

Monday, 6/25/12: Rest day.

My leg muscles hurt during the day. I stripped at the door and ... we started 3 loads of laundry. Leftovers were on tap for supper followed by the rest of the orphan series, Missing, off the DVR. We also caught the latest Dallas episode. Of course we went to bed too late ... nothing unusual there.

Tuesday, 6/26/12: 10.6 miles, 1:22:11, 7:48 pace, 73F, sunny, a bit windy, 1 stop for hydration.

Garmin Connect Activity for Around the streets of Irondequoit

I needed a run but I didn't really want to drive anywhere.So I made up a route that I thought would be about 10 miles. It was down Seneca to Collingwood Drive, across St Paul, down the east zoo trail to Thomas Ave (4.56 miles, 34:50, 7:38 pace), then up Thomas Ave until I could head down into the flats on Van Voorhis Ave and out on Seneca Park Ave, then down St Paul to Winona Blvd, back onto St Paul to Collingwood Drive, Seneca Ave and home. I pushed it and stretched out as much as I could. It was cool, not too humid, a great night for a run!

A leftover dinner of ribs along with baked potato and corn. Somehow they tasted better than Sunday, yum!

Wednesday, 6/27/12: Rest day.

Just your average rest day. Thanks to a free text coupon from Redbox, we watched Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Excellent! Late to bed but with a nice stretch!

Thursday, 6/28/12: 6 x 1 mile repeats with Bill Beyerbach, 85F, sunny, calm, humid.

I met up with Bill Beyerbach at the Christ the King School on Kings Highway in Irondequoit. We jogged over to the Town Hall to warm up. We ran the last half of the Irondequoit 10K course again. We wanted to hit all miles under 7 min pace this time. We did: 6:26, 6:36, 6:20, 6:50, 6:36, 6:46. We did take about 3 to 4 min rest between splits because of the heat. Mile 2 and definitely mile 3 were downhill. Mile 4 was definitely uphill with 68 feet of elevation gain. The miles back were definitely harder. But ... definitely sweaty and sweet!

Christine was cooking up bacon while I was grocery shopping at Wegmans. We were soon eating her lucisous BLTs, yum! We watched some of the US Olympic swimming trails off of the DVR.

Friday, 6/29/12: Rest day.

It was just too hot to run. Just a simple tuna salad with tomatoes and mushrooms. Christine and I did some very vigorous cross-training ... then took a nap. Sweet! I got up for a while and couldn't get back to sleep until 2AM!

Saturday, 6/30/12: Charlie's Old Goat Trail Run, 6.14 miles, 56:42, at least 80F, humid, a bit windy.



Christine and I woke up early to get out to the Ganondagan State Historic Site south of Victor for Charlie's Old Goat Trail run. Charlie Sabatine, 79 years young, is my inspiration ... he is such a nice man! Over 200 runners toed the line, twice the number of runners as last year.The weather was hot, humid and a bit windy (thank goodness). I ran this race last year ... I should have memorized the course! Everything started OK ... the usual down and up, out to 2.7 miles. Then I came to an unmarked turn ... left or right? Everyone behind me was confused. I tried left ... and came up on a taped dead end. Some runners broke the tape and headed back. I went back and chose right. Shortly I came upon upon a unmarked meadow ... left or right? I chose right and followed a trail that just didn't seem correct ... especially when I saw runners coming towards me, I merged in with them and continued. I probably should have went back and chosen left. Oh well! Soon we crossed the creek, the road, up the big hill, around the meadow and headed back to finish in 56:42. I was told that I made another wrong turn when I didn't loop the long house like I am pretty sure that I did last year. I only had 6.14 miles on my Garmin. People that did the whole course had at least 6.7 miles. I had 6.63 miles last year. I was told that somebody probably moved or mismarked the tapes. Charlie said that no one was going to win a car ... so stuff happens. It's all good!

One thing ... it seems that the AC in our car has died after only 10 days!!! What a major disappointment  ... to say the veru least when it is in the upper 80s to 90F!! Believe me, I did say worse! I really need the AC working during work when I need to go between buildings.

We headed to my daughter's apartment in Newark where I installed Office 2007 and its updates on her laptop. Then I looked at my youngest son's laptop. He had told me that he could not boot up his laptop. I met up with him at Brynes Dairy in Phelps. Well ... his laptop booted three times just fine for me. I just love NTF (no trouble found) calls, lol!

We went to Burger King where we ate a bite to eat. I had an iced coffee which was mostly ice and not so much mocha coffee. I got into an animated discussion with the manager when I complained. It seems that BK's policy to fill up the iced coffee cup all the way with ice. This particular BK in Newark only filled my cup 3/4. He calmed me down, refunded my $2.69 and said that I could order it with less ice next time. Lesson learned.

We headed back up to Rochester where we just lazed around in the heat. It was too hot to do much else!