My goodness here it is Monday February 27 already.
And it it also my Son Bruce's birthday. My oh my how time flies when one is having a good time. Happy birthday Bruce
And I was also selected to serve jury duty in Port Angeles for two weeks. No cases like Perry Mason!!!!!
My running took a nose dive for the past couple of days. Thursday was the men's fellowship time at 7:30 pm then Friday and Saturday there was a cold, cold wind at about 20 to 40 miles an hour. I guess I am a fair weather runner.
Anyway back to today. We just ran 1.8 miles today, temp. was 24 degrees. I had to be at the court house in Port Angeles at 9:00 am.
What an up and down weather pattern we are having here in Sequim.
Tomorrow I am getting up at 6:30 am and running about 3.6 miles. I have to be at the court house for jury duty at 8:45 a.m.. It is going to be another cold morning. It is supposed to be in the twenties tonight also.
There was snow on the ground this morning at 8:30 about 3 miles from Port Angeles.
What is going on, it's supposed to be spring.
Hey this morning the sun was just coming over the horizon. It is getting lighter every day. HURRAH, HURRAH.
I am going to get in another15 to 18 mile run this Saturday.
I am getting my route just about completed. I will be running East towards Port Townsend 15 miles out and then back to the house (30 Miles) and then 25 miles out and back West to Port Angeles. (50 miles )
25 miles on the first leg mostly on roads and then 50 miles mostly on trails on the second leg to PA and home.

Up at 7:00am for my morning run. I am a member of a reading here in Sequim so I drove to Hurricane Coffee Shop and parked and at 7:30 went for an hour run. I ran about 5 miles. It was 37 degrees. Wind at 3 to 8 miles and hour. Good training run.
I am still trying to figure out my route for the eighty mile run. My aid person, (Phil) is helping me to  look at the Discovery trail system West of Port Angeles. Oh, if you want to read a good book it is 'The Tool Room Trustee' Stout is the last name the author. It is a good book.
Anyway back to running.
The mornings are getting brighter and brighter as the days go by. It looks like I made it through another winter.
I am going to have to shift my local running routes so that I can keep my motivation up. The same old route gets kind of like running in a rut.
But I am doing OK.
Tomorrow I plan on running 4 miles at 7:00am.
See you tomorrow.

Another day closer to the "run".
I should explain about the picture. If you had good eyes, like me, you could tell that the last person in the outside lane is yours truly. And that is me in the finals of the Senior National Meet in Standford University. I qualified in the 100m in eighth place (17.4 sec) and in the finals I was also eighth (18.04). Age group 75 to79 year old.
Today I was up at 7:00 am and went on my morning run with Philip. I am catching a lousy cold. But went out anyway. Airborne, hot tea and Aleve is the cure for me.
I measured the mileage to Port Angeles and it was about 40 miles round trip. Shirley has water therapy once a week in PA for her Fibromyalgia.
In this purposed route the run would be mostly on the North Olympic trail. It is a good surface trail. It also has a lot of access points so I could get aid. If Philip is agreeable. He always complains that giving aid to a runner harder than running.
I am planning to run my long distances on Saturdays. I will see how it works out.
It was misty today and humid. I wore too many clothes for 41 degrees and 98% humidity.
Still running!
   

Boy I am having trouble setting up my entry for this blog.....
Frustrating.
But here is another blog.
I recovered from my 15.6 mile run last Saturday. Up at 7:00 am again this morning for just an easy 1.8 mile run. Temp. was about 34 degrees. Nice morning with a bit of a S/E wind... Ran with Philip. My legs were still tired from the saturday run but nothing that a little running would cure.
I need to start working on my route for my 80 mile run. I am thinking about running out 40 miles toward Forks and then back home.
Haven't made up my mind yet on whether to run a loop or out and back. But am leaning toward a out and back route.

Thanks to Kim I will start to blog about my training to run eighty miles on my eightieth birthday. I official started on January 23, 2012 by getting up at 7:00 a.m. and running 1.8 miles. UGH,UGH,UGH. Can you tell that I not 'a get up early person.'
Anyway I have been getting up and running since then every morning at that ungodly hour. The distance has been from 1.8 to 3.4 to a long run on Saturday mornings. It has been 26 degrees a couple of times but not to bad for running. At least the wind has not blown for those cold mornings.
I have two long distance (for me), a 12 mile run last Saturday, Feb. 11 and a 15.6 mile run today. Feb. 18. 3 hours and 31 minutes. 13 minutes and 31 secs per mile. It was a hilly course and the wind was very cold in a couple of places but overall it was a good run. I have recovered this evening and feel great.  Pulse is down to 60 per minute. Not bad for an old geezer, but it looks like I should have put out a better effort. Oh, well it was just a training run.
Oh I forgot Philip is my running partner for the EARLY morning runs.
I am running the eighty miles on my eightieth birthday to raise funds for a local charity in Sequim, Washington.