Run – 14 miles
Hot days and cool mornings.
Another basic week of running. With all the traveling back and forth to Denver and getting ready for the trip I only got in three days of running. Fortunately, I am feeling really good and all three days had some hard running. On Tuesday and Sunday I ran up and down the South Platte river in Denver. There is a great bike trail on both sides of the river. There has been a lot of rain in Colorado these last few weeks and the river has flooded. Most of the trail is ok, but Confluence Park where Cherry Creek and the South Platte converge is completely under water. It makes for a scenic run, if one with a lot of detours.
From my Tuesday run I noticed a Strava segment, so on Sunday I tried for the course record (CR), which I got. But 2 x .9miles of 5:20min/mile pace were very hard for me. I have no endurance but I’m happy with those times.
View from the house – I ran down then up!
On Thursday we were back in Glenwood Springs and I tried to run from the Chadwick house. They live up a hill – 432ft in 0.8 miles. I ran down and down to West Glenwood Springs no problem, but trying to run back up that hill killed me. I had to walk for a while (a long while), but I sucked it up and ran the last .5mile of the hill.
I ran with my GoPro the last few runs. I plan on taking it with me on the majority of my runs; taking pictures and video as I go and see. I will edit the video I took on those runs on the plane down to Lima. I can’t wait to start running around the world!
Later.