The long experiment

Sunday, 6 miles with Silas in :48 (?) + bagel break
Monday, 6.4 miles in :55

A timing malfunction on Sunday's run meant that I only timed the first half; on the way back Silas and I chilled for a while at Berkeley Bagels to watch the buses; we decided to stay until we saw a BART train pass on the bridge, and it was worth the wait: we saw a Richmond and a Fremont train pass at the same time!

Apropos the title of this post: I've been pleasantly surprised several times this year to find that, after spending some time at little to no mileage, I'm able to come back feeling refreshed and to speed through my daily runs. Well, apparently 5 weeks of an average 11 miles/week is the tipping point. I went out this morning for my first consecutive-days run since July 5-6, meaning to do an 8.8-mile Marin Loop. Pretty quickly I decided I wasn't up for the full distance, so I decided to cut off the last stretch and skip running down to Sacramento Ave. By the time I hit Marin Ave, I knew that I would turn south at the Circle, rather than continuing 2 blocks up the hill and across the Cal campus. I got home in 55 minutes and figured I'd gone about 7 miles, maybe a bit less; gmap disagrees, though, so I have to settle for 6.4 miles. No problem: I didn't hurt after the run, and it shouldn't take to long to get back to where I was.