double 10K -- Sun. August 26

After a couple of days with no chance to run, needing a long stretch and wanting some hill work, headed up to the observation tower over the lake. It''s been murderously humid and pretty hot, and both Fri. and Sat. I got some exercise time (or at least avoiding sitting at a desk) doing tag sale setup and cleaning house. This was a somewhat less hot, but still v. humid morning. Headed out at about 10:30 on an unfortunately mainly road route -- turns out to be almost exactly 10K to the top of the hill with the tower on it, starting from home. Then stopped the clock and went up and down the tower, restarted the clock and headed home, stopping it after I'd done a clear total of 13.1 (just as a goal). The outbound run was fairly fast until the hill, and the run back felt rough but went well, thus:

Part 1
Time: 49:35
Distance: 6.63 miles
Speed: 8.0 mph

Part 2
Time: 45:34
Distance: 6.49 miles
Speed: 8.5 mph

Comment: good start to the week (hard to follow!) and it felt pretty tough but do-able. Half marathon time would be 1:35 ish, not half bad for a solo run with a big hill (but Monson has hills a-plenty, so maybe that's normal).