With that last 2 week travel stint behind me, I’m ready to kick the training schedule back into gear- the long travel (one day as 27 hours of transit, sigh), jet lag, miscellaneous excuses, the training graph got a big valley in its curve.

It’s a glorious sunny warm day in Strawberry, Arizona (in the 70s, up from 31 degrees in the morning), and I had a steady solid run; looping around to AZ87 and then baclk down Fossil Creek Road out to past the paved the segment and back. Since the longer runs are supposed to be at a slower than race pace, I kept it easy at a little under 11 minutes per mile, and the best part was going the whole way non-stop. I miscalculated turn around point, so went a bit farther then the 6 miles scheduled for today.

In past years, I find November training one that takes a dip; sometimes it is the work travel, in 2007 it was the shin splints, and maybe it is just a tinge of boredom. But I’m kicking the throttle back to get this thing back on the road.

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