Hendrix

Late morning ran up the canal to Hendrix, ran a mile around the track, and ran back the same way. Did a 8:10 mile on the track, which is pretty good for me. About 4.0 miles total.

Rural PR !

Around lunch today ran down canal to Rural road and back. The ankle I twisted held up just fine, a new PR by 2 seconds, about 4.4 miles. A little later played some disc golf with Jordan at Moeur park, managed to lose another disc in the creek.

Ringtail

I have had a cold since last Thursday night. I dragged myself out of the office yesterday at lunch and ran the short 3 mile Ringtail loop. It went ok and I wasn't too slow, but I managed to roll my right ankle pretty badly, can't run today.

Yoga

4:30 class in N. Scottsdale today with a brand new, extremely hot instructor named Crystal. This was her first class after being certified after 9 weeks in India. She was reading from the manual and messing up quite a bit but it was cool anyway.

Quartz

At lunch ran up Quartz trail, past Lost Dog intersection about a half mile, on a very tender left calf. Stopped at an intersection with what appeared to be a mine road straight up the hill to a big white mound, I'll have to climb up there and check it out soon. About 5 miles.

Yoga

Class at the north Scottsdale Bikram with Mary Catherine at 4:30. Good class, I got back on my elbows in fixed firm for the first time :)

Bell Pass almost

Ran from Bell Rd trailhead up, Levee, Paradise, Gateway and Bell Pass to within a mile of the pass, back on Gateway to 104th, about 5.6 miles. I'm gonna make that pass very, very soon.

around Research

This morning ran around the research park via canal, Country Club, Warner thru the neighborhood across Elliot and back, about 4.5 miles.

Yoga

8am yoga this morning again with Amy. Good class, tried some things from Bikrams book, and it definetly pays to go more often.

Inspiration Viewpoint

At lunch today ran from the Union Hills trailhead to the Inspiration Viewpoint by way of Horseshoe/Gateway/Windgate and back. The last bit from Desert Park intersection was a BITCH, lots of walking on my part, but it was beautiful up there and I'm very happy. 6.0 miles.

Gateway loop

Ran the loop at lunch today, very little walking, a lot of slow uphill running. Beautiful day out. 5.2 miles.

Yoga

Yesterday went to the 12 noon class, Allison was the teacher. Struggled again with triangle and camel, as usual.

Spin

Went to my first spin class at LA Fitness today. The instructor Nancy was cool and the class was hard. She puts us in groups and had us racing each other with sprints. She judged who won the race and lo and behold, it was me, the grand champion. She gave me a packet of biofreeze as a prize, I guess she dug it out of her purse. It was very, very cool.

Hidden Valley

This morning I went to south mountain and did a long trail run. Went up National Trail and did the small loop thru Hidden Valley and back, about 6 miles. It was beautiful in the valley, they day was perfect and I felt wonderful there.

Gym

This morning went to the gym with the wife. Ran 4.5 miles on treadmill and swam a few laps.

Yoga

After a cheer comp. that Carissa's 5 man stunt team got 3rd in, went to the 1pm yoga. Reba was teaching, which was cool, and I got a bit woozy during triangle and camel, not to surprising.

Racquetball

Played racquetball this afternoon at Dobson with the boy.

Horizon-Windgate

Ran from Horizon park, by Notre Dame, across Bell, thru Windgate Ranch up to Union Hills today. Dirt the entire way, didn't know I could get thru that route. About 6 miles.

104th-Cactus

At lunch ran down Quartz to Wesworld, all the way to the end at Cactus, then back the same way. More and more people on the trails every day now. 6 miles.

Horseshoe/Gateway/Desert Park

Right after a meeting where I found out our company was fired off Wickenburg Ranch, I went up to the trailhead with the intention of making Inspiration Point. Once again I bailed on it, this time I went back on Desert Park, 5.1 miles.

Horseshoe-Gateway

Ran at lunch up Horseshoe to Gateway to the Desert Park intersection. Thought for a few minutes about going up to Inspiration Point and thought better of it. 4.8 miles.

Gym

Went to the gym this morning with the wife. Ran 5 miles on the treadmill and swam laps for about 15 minutes. After lunch played a couple games of racquetball with Jordan at Dobson.

Yoga

This morning went to the 8am class with Amy. She is very cool, and could be a twin sister of Carissa's friend Nicole. It was the best class I have had in months.