Road run -- Fri. Jan. 28

Aiming for 8+ today, not wanting to go far from home, and ready for a no-trails run for a change. Pretty chilly at that hour, despite the minor thaw yesterday, but go in short anyhow. Decide on a Rural loop, with a second lap: out before 9 onto GeoHannum and to the water plant to stretch, then along to Boardman, to Rural and back up GeoHannum: tempo pace once I started the loop, and attacked both steep bits of the hill (one telegraph pole span each, go all out). Second loop similar, getting a total of 4 miles at 7:00 or lower, and then ease off coming back homewards. Feel ready for a bit more than 8, so along Jackson past Small Farms to the rail trail, and back along the trail to GeoHannum. Buzzed from behind by fat a-hole on a snowmobile in the last bit before GeoHannum, and get into small altercation when I refuse to give way to him until a passing spot. Idiot. Finish to home at easy pace thus:

Time: 1:09:11
Distance: 9.51 miles
Pace: 7:16s

Comment: so good to get out and do a bit at pace on a firm surface; had forgotten how it felt. I won't make the Snowstorm run tomorrow, so this will have to substitute.