Rainy 8 -- Sat. Oct. 24

Yeah, another week without runs, and at least two flu cases at home, so I'm feeling like a good run outside today. Of course, it's raining too: showers, mainly but a couple of them pretty heavy. Fortunately it's not very cold (mid-50s?) so off in shorts and marathon jacket, and hat and gloves: head out to Hamilton, as if for a regular Enfield, but on crossing the bit of Allen between 9 and 202, head right along 202 back to 9, then left along to Enfield, so now I'm doing a reverse Enfield; come down Allen to 202, then head straight for home, powering along 202 to VFW and across as far as the supermarket, thus:

Time: 58:55
Distance: 8.08 miles
Pace: 7:17s

Comments: first 4 miles were in 31 minutes, so figuring I'd aim for 60 or so to get a negative split, but there were two fast miles (6:15 and 6:29), so a solid negative split. This is a useful course, for future use, I think. Pretty sore at the end, with definite threshhold running, but it felt good.