Today I only ran 40% of the miles that Clay, David, Kyra and Sarah are probably still running.
I am in the Phoenix area for my sons wedding, but I had time to get up and go for a run. This is my second trip to the Phoenix area and I am impressed with their network of multi use paths. There are creeks (or flood control channels) going through town and they have built parks and pathways along most of them.
I started at my hotel, the La Quinta Inn, right next door to the Peoria Sports Complex. This is where the Mariners do their spring training. I ran about a mile down the road to get to the nearest river crossing. The entrance to the bike paths, from this bridge was not paved, but I found my way down to the bike path and started off in the North East direction. The first few miles were difficult. I was fighting that occasional dizziness that I get. I am thinking, by the way, that these occasional morning run difficulties depend on how poorly I ate the night before. (Last night we took a bunch of people out to dinner at Red Robin – so a huge burger was not good morning running fuel.)
A few miles in I came to a fork in the rivers with paths going both ways upstream. I headed up the northern one. This path was along Skunk Creek. About 5 miles in there was a park where I could refill my water and use the restroom. About 6.6 miles into my run, this pathway ended. I debated continuing along the street path, but opted to head back to the fork in the path I had run through earlier. Whilst thinking about it, I took out my phone and took a couple pics:
I intentionally shot this with my shadow in the pic. Then I decided to take one with me in the picture, but I forgot I had the zoom on:
I headed back to the fork and took the other path. I headed that way a few miles until it was time to head back to the hotel. As you can see from the chart below. After a few miles I felt better and things picked up. By the end it was starting to get pretty warm, but with some mental focus I was able to maintain and finish fairly strong.
1/2 mile | mile | |
---|---|---|
4:38 | ||
Mile 1 | 4:14 | 8:52 |
4:42 | ||
Mile 2 | 4:18 | 9:00 |
4:44 | ||
Mile 3 | 4:47 | 9:31 |
4:27 | ||
Mile 4 | 4:23 | 8:50 |
4:27 | ||
Mile 5 | 4:17 | 8:44 |
4:19 | ||
Mile 6 | 4:21 | 8:40 |
4:09 | ||
Mile 7 | 4:04 | 8:13 |
4:08 | ||
Mile 8 | 4:05 | 8:14 |
4:03 | ||
Mile 9 | 4:07 | 8:10 |
4:10 | ||
Mile 10 | 4:04 | 8:15 |
4:20 | ||
Mile 11 | 4:06 | 8:27 |
4:12 | ||
Mile 12 | 4:07 | 8:19 |
4:09 | ||
Mile 13 | 4:09 | 8:17 |
4:14 | ||
Mile 14 | 3:59 | 8:13 |
4:14 | ||
Mile 15 | 3:59 | 8:13 |
4:06 | ||
Mile 16 | 4:09 | 8:15 |
4:11 | ||
Mile 17 | 4:12 | 8:23 |
4:13 | ||
Mile 18 | 4:08 | 8:22 |
4:11 | ||
Mile 19 | 4:18 | 8:28 |
4:06 | ||
Mile 20 | 3:50 | 7:55 |
2:49:26 | 8:28 |
Great job getting in a 20 miler!