Training Log Archive: Sandy

In Chicago for a work-related thing tomorrow. Took Chicago transit downtown and walked around the loop area for a couple of hours just seeing the sights; enjoyed myself quite a bit. Millenium Park and some of buildings in the surrounding area are quite impressive and having the lake right there was rather unique. And the Chicago Marathon was today so I went and wandered around the finish area; I've never been to any of the large marathons so that was also kind of cool.

Run and walk with Sandy on the trails of the Wissahickon. So cool to have someone to run with like that. And it was sort of a spur of the moment thing too.

Got home too late last night to drive to Harriman this morning. Oh well.

Some things seem impossible and others I can definitely see progress.

The offer by Jon Campbell to run the team trial course for the cadets on Pole Brook on Saturday is very tempting. Is it worth the 2 hour drive though?

Late night session. Now that I have figured out (duh!!) that I can play the dvd on my laptop while I have something else on the tv, this was a lot easier to get myself to do.

TNT - with Jim and Bob, 3 miles on the drive. They both claimed they didn't want to go far nor fast and so we ran together for most of this with them clearly able to go faster but willing to keep me company. I warned them that I wasn't going any faster than 10 minute pace and possibly quite a bit slower than that, but we did 3 in 30:15 so just a tad over. First time I've run 3 miles in a good while and I probably wouldn't have done it on my own. We did walk down and back up though. A good dinner afterwards and so a very satisfying TNT.