Friday night, 4.4 in 37:44
Saturday morning with Silas, 7.3 in 1:02:32
Sunday afternoon with Silas, 7.6 in 1:07:05

For the latter half of my life, the 8 minute mile has been the Mendoza line of my training runs. If I run much faster than that, then I'm running pretty fast. If I run much slower, then I'm running pretty slow. For road running, these three runs all came in much slower than the Mendoza line. All three started with the same uphill stretch that pretty much set the tone for the run, and I didn't feel like pushing it after that.

Anyway, Silas and I were slow getting out the door on Friday, so I decided to bag the run and hope to get it in later. I was happy to make it out at all on Friday night, after Si went to bed. An easy loop around the Cal campus and back home. I mapped this in topo mode; extra credit if you can guess where the fault line is.

11 hours later, Silas and I hit the road again for a run through the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland. I don't know it for a fact, but it looks like this neighborhood has the highest concentration of coffee shops, yoga studios, and used bookstores in the Western United States. It's no good for running in the late morning or afternoon because of all the foot traffic, but it was a nice stretch of clear sidewalk before turning west at 40th st into the real Oakland to head home.

This afternoon was another run in Berkeley while C was at a yoga class. The main lesson of the run was that if you choose a road called Scenic Ave, you should know what you're getting into. The secondary lesson is that, running with a stroller, a wicked downhill can slow you down as much as a wicked uphill. I saw some friends out in their yard with their little girl a couple blocks from home; I yelled hey, finished the run, and walked back to be social.

I'm probably not running tomorrow unless I can squeeze another in in the evening.