Run: 5.7 miles in :42:13 min. @ 8:30 a.m.

Scheduled Workout: 5 miles
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, 20°F, 78% Humidity, Wind: From NNW @ 4 mph; feels like 14°F.
Course: In and (briefly) around Rocheter, New York (my 'hood).
Elevation Change: Total climb--133 ft/40 m, Total elevation change-- 268 ft/82 m
Pace: 7:23 min./per mile


Following yesterday's "recovery day," and the two preceding days of TUTs and strides, this morning's "5 miles" seemed easy enough to follow through on. Not necessarily completing the 5 miles, but rather the absence of some unique or different training strategy made the morning's workout a matter of simply, "point and run." Which is what I endeavored to do... sort of.

I felt great today going a little further, a littel faster than I had planned, but well within the expected curve. Again this morning, while getting my coffee I brought my camera and took some pics of the local "monuments" I passed while on my run.

The Strong Rochester Museum of Play:


St. Mary's (Catholic) Church, one of three communtiy parishes which will soon be combined into a singular entity due to diminshing membership. I have at one poitn or another had membership in all three:


A unique part of our skyline and home of the local newspaper, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Whenever I see this I am reminded of that building top from Ghostbusters:


Our Main Street, from West to East over the Genesee River:


The main exhibition building of our Memorial Art Gallery:


My "finishing chute" which ends at the street running perpendicular to my own, that I generally trot down as a cool-down:


Breathe in, breathe out… YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!