It is so great to have a nice track so close while visiting family in Menno, SD. For this run, I did 54 loops or so, as an informal progression run.
Half #96: West Lake Okoboji, Iowa
On a family trip and visiting my sister-in-law, I had the opportunity to run around beautiful West Lake Okoboji. First half of the route was along a recreational trail, with the bulk of the second half along Lake Shore Dr. Nice vacation run!
Half #95: Gazzam in full
This is something close to a complete mapping of the trails in Gazzam Nature Preserve.
Half #94: homecoming day!
I had an earlier start today, because this afternoon my daughter gets back from three weeks in South Africa!
Half #93: South Island coast half
I kept up a sustained tempo effort at about 7:30min/mi for the entirety, with the exception of a few minutes during mile 11 spent walking with my neighbor whom I ran into along the way.
Half #92: Wednesday group run
Mark Goodro and I ran about 7 miles from our area in the south of the Island up to the meeting place for the Wednesday group run, which does an approximately 7-mile route. On the way, we picked off a couple more streets for Mark’s Run Every Street Bainbridge project.
Half #91: mud hunting
It rained this morning for the first time in a while, so I went looking for muddy trails. It has been so dry that my trail shoes have stayed embarrassingly clean so far this year!
Half #90: south-end cross-Island
I took the first 9mi or so fairly easy, then the next 5mi at sub-7:00min/mi, and a cooldown after that.
Half #88 and 89: South Island coast marathon
This was my first marathon since the Lumberjack 100k in June, over six weeks ago. While that might not sound like a long time, it is the longest gap between marathons so far this year, and the 100k feels like it was ages ago.
I kept the variables down by choice of route and just focused on a consistent pace. Glad to have logged one in July.
Half #87: Port Madison loop with Mark
Excited to have another “crossover event!” How Many Halfs meets Run Every Street Bainbridge, as I joined Mark Goodro for a section of his project. The feature image is the famous Frog Rock, found in this area.