Levee-Bell Pass

After work ran from 104th St. trailhead, down levee and past the mines. Eventually the wash became impossible to get thru, hiking let alone running, and I climbed out onto a nearby pile of boulders. I saw an obvious trail off to the left and ran up it for a bit. I was getting tired tho and turned back, turned out it was the Bell Pass Trail, and ran back down it to Gateway, Paradise, Levee, 104th and back to car, about 5.5 miles.

Paradise mine

At lunch yesterday I ran from the Mcdowell Center, up Paradise and right on the road to the mines. I followed it way up towards the mountain, eventually running in a wash. It was very nice up in there and I will be going back. About 5 miles.

Taliesin West

Day before yesterday at lunch ran from the 104th st. trailhead towards Cactus canal bridge. Right before I got there i turned left and ran up into Taliesin West. Didn't look too impressive to me. Trying to find my way out I had some assholes tell me to leave back the way I came. Probably about 5 1/2 miles, and I won't ever go back there again.

Horseshoe-Gateway

At lunch run to the intersection of Gateway-Paradise. On theway back, where there is a new sign up covered up with a bag, I took the new trail there to the construction site for the new Gateway access area. The sign said it will be done next April, its going to be big and from the looks of it pretty nice.

South Mountain

Around lunch today went trail running at South Mountain park. Ran on Desert Classic, Beverly Canyon, Ridgeline and East loop and some unnamed ones. Not sure exactly how far but I think about 5 miles. A few too many slopes with steep grades for my taste, but it was a nice run.

Gym

This morning went to the gym with the wife again. Ran 5 miles on the treadmill and swam laps for 20 minutes. A few hours later went the the Yoga Asana competition at the Arizona Historical Center. Saw some incredible yoga, was very cool, and congratulated Elaina on her new baby.

Yoga

Went to the 4:30 class in Tempe today, the teacher was visiting from Boston. There were three instructors in the class, Reba, Don and another visiting instructor from Santa Barbara. It was a very tiring class, only once a week makes it tough.

Desert Park-Windgate-Gateway-Horseshoe loop

Ran a loop at lunch from the trailhead at Union Hills, about 5.1 miles. Pretty cool route that I will do again. Actually saw some people on the trail today.

QJTW loop

At lunch ran the approx. 5k loop from the 104th st. trailhead thru the golf course. Nice day, felt pretty decent.

Cactus Bridge

At lunch ran 5.96 mile route to the canal bridge and back to the park. Kinda slow, but it was nice out.

LA Fitness

Went back to the gym for the first time in months, the wife signed us up for memberships a couple days ago. At this exact moment I have have membership at 3 gyms, hopefully that will change soon. Anyway, I ran 2 miles, did legs, then swam laps for 25 minutes. Yeee Haww.

Yoga

Went to 8am class with the big titted bitch that I had a couple months ago that wouldn't let me do Salabhasana because I can't get my elbows underneath. Well, she stood on my feet again today, I really, really don't like her. The class pretty much sucked from that point on, go figure.

Taliesin Overlook

After work ran up to the overlook from Lost Dog trailhead, 4.6 miles. It was nice out and my time was pretty decent.

Quartz-Taliesen-Javalena loop

At lunch ran this loop, 4.89 miles. Nice day out, time not too slow, beats the hell out of being at work.

Gateway loop

Ran the loop for the newly regraded 94th st. trailhead, 5.2 miles. It was beautiful out and I had the first really good run in quite some time.

Neighborhood run

This morning before my Dr. appt. I ran the same route thru the Oasis as last week, 3.4 miles. It was actually cold out, nice change of pace.

Race for the Cure

The race was this morning, at Wesley Bolin park this year. I was on team Myths, met up with them before the race, they all walked tho so I ran alone as usual. My time was good, better than last year, particulary considering I haven't been able to train much due to the never ending cold.

Yoga

This morning went to 8am class with Kat. She is cool and extremely hot, had a real good class.

Yoga

Went to the 4:30 class in Scottsdale today. We had a new instructor that didn't give us any breaks between postures, just rushed thru the whole class and finished 10 mins early. It was a pain but still it was nice to be back in class.

Horizon-bridge

At lunch ran the approx. 3.5 mile from the park to the over pass by Notre Dame. I'm pretty sure the road is actually Bell, not the 101, go figure.

Neighborhood run

After a Dr. appt. this afternoon I ran down the canal to McClintock, then thru the Oasis neighborhood down to Elliot, back up Kenwood to the canal and home, about 3.4 miles.

Quartz

At lunch ran Quartz trail from 104th trailhead to Taliesen intersection. Made the hard uphill part easier this time, no stopping, no walking, 4.3 miles.

Rural PR !

4.37 mile down the canal to Rural road and back this morning. Lungs are still messed up some but I killed my pr for the route by almost exactly one minute.

Gateway Loop backwards

At lunch ran the same route as Monday, except right instead of left at the Gateway intersection. I gotta say I probably made a mistake going today, I'm still not well and the longer climb to the saddle going that way almost killed me. I did way too much walking and coughing and almost puked at the summit. Calf was hurting almost the whole time too. Somehow I beat my Monday time by about a minute tho.